Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2012

TAKEN IN ЗЕЛЕНОГРАДСК (OSTSEEBAD CRANZ) - РОССИЯ / RUSSIA

This small town is known as seaside resort on the coast of Samland. The formerly very beautiful place was much neglected in recent years. In some places around the beauty already back ...


... in most cases it is even guessable. This was and still is a hotel. If you search for "Hotel Königin Luise" you will find pictures how this building was looking about 100 years ago.


From the elegance of the old villas and hotels at best traces remained, but all the same, everywhere in the city center is being built and renovated, more and more in an effort to preserve historic seaside architecture.



In Selenogradsk you sometimes don´t know exactly what to think about the many half-finished buildings or building fences with locked: Are these ruins or sites? The answer: a bit of both. The harsh juxtaposition of decay and structure is characteristic for the oldest and most fashionable seaside resort and once on the Amber Coast. By the way, a well known sister of this city is Beate Uhse.

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