vorpommern

like B follows the A, vorpommern follows mecklenburg, isn't it? well, you wouldn't believe it, but today's mecklenburg-vorpommern is a german federal state which was established only after the WWII. as germany lost the war, the area of vorpommern lost its major industrial city of stettin to poland (even when stettin is on the left oder river side) and built the administrative unit of mecklenburg-vorpommernin in the former GDR / DDR. 

it is the german state with lowest density of popupalion and if you asked me, even the few people there are somehow cold / unfriendly / frozen ~ maybe because of the rough climate at the baltic sea 😈

castle hotel spyker on the island rügen (rujana)

our stops in vorpommern were the unesco heritage city of stralsund for a day trip and the island rügen (rujana), where we've spent 5 nights and days visiting following areas / sights:

• castle spyker (spycker)
• the beaches of glowe and the taste of stralsund's famous störtebeker beer
• königsstuhl cliffs and beech (buche) forests (unesco heritage), the remaining / archaeological finds (from the 6th - 8th century?) of slavic fort herthaburg
• lohme
• cape arkona (kap arkona) ~ putgarten, vitt, lighthouse, 4-headed slavic god svantevit / swantewit, the remaining / archaeological finds (from the 6th - 8th century?) of slavic fort jaromarsburg (jaro-mar, you see? 👻)
• sassnitz ~ harbor, submarine museum, lenin memorial (w. i. lenin returned to russia from sassnitz in 2017 in order to start the communist revolution), harbor pub with seagulls
• binz
• schaprode
• castle granitz
• sellin + sellin pier
• ----------------------
• stralsund

enjoy few pictures 😍

the castle spyker (spycker) on the island rügen was our nicest and also most expensive hotel at the whole journey through germany [fichtelgebirge, (west) brandenburg, mecklenburg, vorpommern, (east) brandenburg again (uckermark)]

beach by glowe, island rügen

best of all wives 👩 and the nicest & best beer 🍺 of the whole journey 

baltic sea

castle renzow, island rügen

unesco heritage in NP jasmund ~ königsstuhl (cliffs and beech (buche) forests) ~ island rügen

beach in sassnitz

beach in binz

back to spyker => walking around the salt-sweet spyker bay

walk to the beach in glowe through a small pine forest

few collages made by my wife

mr. and mrs. snail? nope, land snails are hermaphrodites (zwitter) 😂

hotel panorama in lohme, island rügen

good-bye, lohme

sassnitz again

the british submarine HMS Otus (S18) functions as a submarine museum in sassnitz today

hotel fürstenhof

good morning, sassnitz

castle granitz

sellin

sellin pier

bridge between the city of stralsund and the island rügen

the unesco heritage city of stralsund

st. nikolai church + the town hall

main old city's square

this funny monk will fulfill all your wishes if you only pay enough 😉 

st. nikolai church on the right

good-bye, stralsund

lighthouse at cape arkona (kap arkona)

polish godess + old slavic 4-headed god svantevit / swantewit

the remaining / archaeological finds (from the 6th - 8th century?) 

of slavic fort jaromarsburg (jaro-mar, you see? 👻)

not only this nostalgic trabant (trabi) remindes me at DDR in arkona

let's walk to  the mini fisher village vitt (13 houses and 17 inhabitants or vice versa)

putgarten

thatched roofs (reetdach) were typical for this area

the ferry wittower fähre on our road to trent & schaprode

church in schaprode and lighthouse at the island hiddensee

schaprode, ships to island hiddensee

many, many more pictures which should remember ME at the nice time spent in and at the baltic sea (ostsee) 😃