szczecin { stettin }

last stop on our poland trip was the former german city stettin (scszecin), a sad example about destructive power of wars .... not only germany lost that beautiful lands and lagoon around the river oder { odra } for ever, but there is even 60 years after the war still so much destruction + ugliness in the very centre of szczecin { stettin } that there is no doubt about the sheer devastation wars leave behind
just jump over to (english language) wikipedia: ... Allied air raids in 1944 and heavy fighting between the German and Soviet armies destroyed 65% of Stettin's buildings and almost all of the city centre, the seaport and local industries. ... curiously says the german language wikipedia, that the old city centre and the port were destroyed by 90% and the remaining parts of stettin by 70% ... i'm not going to seek how many people were killed during and short after the war as i'm still too depressed from swinemünde { Świnoujście } where the allied bombs killed 23,000 out of 40,000 inhabitants :-(

last but not least, szczecin is famous also for the solidarity (solidarnosc) movement and its leader lech walesa which was in 1980 the beginning of the end of socialism in eastern europe

pictures:

old town hall (museum of history today) + main old city square

the 2 restored building facades

inside the museum of history

 
poverty in the the post war socialistic era 

 
graffiti

 

oder river { odra } short before its mouth into the baltic sea

 

 castle

 

more PL-pictures here

NO WARS
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poland, winter 2014 ~ lodz, ustka (stolpmünde), kaszuby, darlowo, treptow, stettin

having nice time in poland wirth family + friends and the best of all wives 😄

lodz / lodsch

trebaczew

the region kaszuby / kaszubi / kaschuben / kaschuben / kashubia / cassubia / kaszëbë

 time for lunch in zajazd kaszubski

ustka / stolpmünde

villa red, 1886, otto von bismarck's residence in stolpmünde

cat + lion 🐱

sylvester 2014

source jacque fresco

... walking around in ustka / stolpmünde

seagulls (möven)

lighthouse

1911, town hall

also from 1911

  arts??? at the sea side promenade

 crazy in ice cold baltic sea water

darlowo / rügenwalde

castle in darłowo from 1352

 typical farm house in pomorze / pommern / pomerania:

 dąbki / dabki / neuwasser ~ between the lake and the sea 😄

lake bukowo

sea side

do you like waste on the beach? no, not at all and thus i do not leave any waste there :-)

slupsk / stolp ~ we have been here and in the nearby beautiful slowinski national park (moving dunes) in summer time some 15 years ago. unfortunately we didn't manage to stop here this time, we've just driven through Słupsk

ustronie morskie / henkenhagen

gorilla guru + the sun + the wind + the rainbow are back today😃

trzebiatów / treptow an der rega

1124

town hall + city square

look at the 2nd house (pink color)

.... inside :-)

Dziwnów / Dievenow

bay / lake side

sea side

Świnoujście / Swinemünde

map of the northern part of the szczecin / stettin bay (with Świnoujście / Swinemünde in the centre and dziwnow / dievenow at the upper right side) ~ source wikipedia

 river swina ~ ferry for free

 military port

 swinemünde city center

our last stop? szczecin / stettin :-)

more PL-pictures here
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