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w Greifswald Friedrich, including his famous of the famous Dance of Death
landscapes of the ruined by Hans Holbein in Basle.
Road map E1. * 54,000. £ monastery of Eldena, Ruined Another notable artifact is the
n Rathaus Am Markt (03834-853 61
380). _ Musical concerts Eldena in the Riesengebirge, epitaph of Duke Philip I, crafted
which he transposed to the
in 1560 by the Saxon artist
“Greifswalder Bachwochen” (Jun); Jazz
Evenings in Eldena (Jul); Fischerfest mountains of present-day Wolf Hilinger.
(Jul). ∑ greifswald.info Poland and Czech Republic. Other attractions in the town
The market square with are the Alter Speicher, an 80 m-
This former Hanseatic town is its Baroque town hall is (262 ft-) long half-timbered
situated 5 km (3 miles) from the surrounded by patrician granary (Burgstraße, 1836), and
Bay of Greifswald. From afar the houses, with exemplary rich the family home of Philipp Otto
picturesque silhouette of the brickwork façades (particularly Runge, famous romantic painter
town with its three church numbers 11 and 13). Nearby and adopted son of Hamburg.
towers, nicknamed Fat Mary, rises the vast Dom St Nikolai.
Little Jakob and Long Michael, The cathedral’s octagonal P Philipp-Otto-Runge-
appears like a painting by tower, topped with a Baroque Gedenkstätte Fishing boat on the beach at Usedom
Caspar David Friedrich – the helm, affords extensive views Kronwieckstraße 45. Tel (03836) 20 30
town’s most famous resident – of the town. The Rubenow-Bild 41. Open May–Oct: 11am–6pm Tue– daily; Oct & May: 10am–5pm façade. During the past few
come to life. Charm pervades (1460), one of the paintings Alter Speicher – the half-timbered Fri, 11am–4pm Sat & Sun. Tue–Fri, 1pm–5pm Sat & Sun; years, the early 20th-century
the old town, its architectural inside, depicts the founding granary in Wolgast Nov–Apr: 11am–3:30pm Wed–Fri, piers in all three spas have
mix resulting from 40 years of professor of Greifswald’s 1pm–3:30pm Sun. been rebuilt and restored.
East German rule. Greifswald, an university in front of Mary, e Wolgast The longest, in Heringsdorf,
important academic centre and Mother of God. Road map E1. * 15,000. £ n is also the second largest in
market town, has geared up Rathausplatz 10 (03836-60 01 18). _ t Usedom Europe, after one in Poland.
more for tourism since 1989. It is Environs Hafenfest (Jul). ∑ stadt-wolgast.de Road map E2. £ n Heringsdorf, The Marienkirche, one of the
certainly worth a visit – a short Wieck, an attractive working Kurverwaltung, Waldstraße 1 (038378- island’s main attractions, was
walk from east to west enables fishing village, is now From 1295 the seat of the 477 10); Ahlbeck, Kurverwaltung, erected in the 19th century.
visitors to see all the most incorporated into Greifswald. Pomeranian-Wolgast dukes, Dünenstraße 45 (038378-244 14).
important monuments in town. It has a drawbridge dating from Wolgast castle was destroyed in
The 14th-century Marien- 1887, reminiscent of typical 1713, when Peter the Great The island, named after the y Peenemünde
kir che has a vast square Dutch bridges. The Cistercian ordered the town to be burned. village of Usedom and Road map E1. * 650.
tower, giving it a rather squat monastery of Eldena, just A notable surviving building is separated from the mainland
appearance and its nickname, 1 km (0.6 mile) south of Wieck the 12-sided cemetery chapel by the Peenestrom, is the Historically, the most
Fat Mary. Inside, the church district, was made famous by with star vaulting, supported One of the models in the Otto second largest in Germany interesting spot on the island
contains the remains of frescoes the Romantic paintings of by a single column. The most Lilienthal-Museum in Anklam at 445 sq km (172 sq miles). of Usedom is the museum
and an amazing Renaissance Caspar David Friedrich. The valuable work of art can now A small corner in the east at Peenemünde, which is
pulpit depicting the Reform- monastery was founded in be seen in Pfarrkirche St Petri, r Anklam was incorporated into Poland located on military territory.
ation figures of Luther, Bugen- 1199 and plundered by the a 14th-century parish church. Road map E2. * 16,400. £ after 1945. Usedom is almost It demonstrates the evolution
hagen and Melanchthon. The Swedes in 1637. Its ruined red Dating from the turn of the n Markt 3, Rathaus (03971-835 154). as attractive as Rügen, posses- of space travel, pioneered
Gemäldegalerie has a collection walls amid the green grass and 17th to the 18th century, the ∑ anklam.de sing white beaches, forests, at this research station since
of paintings by Caspar David trees look wildly romantic. Totentanz frieze is an imitation peat bogs and bays overgrown 1936. During World War II,
A former Hanseatic town, with rushes in the south. It long-distance rockets,
Anklam’s erstwhile importance is linked with the mainland powered by liquid fuel
is revealed by its vast defensive by two drawbridges (near and known as V-2 (Vergel­
walls, in which is set the mid- Anklam and Wolgast). tungswaffe; retaliatory
15th-century city gate, Steintor. The resorts follow one weapon), were produced
It is worth visiting the Gothic another like pearls on a here, which inflicted
Marienkirche. Inside, the string: Bansin, Heringsdorf heavy damage on the
church’s octagonal pillars and and Ahlbeck, known cities of London and
the arches of its arcades are as the “three sisters”, are Antwerp in 1944. After
painted with graceful figures, connected by a wide the war, the chief
which reveal a Lübeck influence. beach. At the beginning engineer, Wernher
A museum recalls the life and of the 20th century they von Braun, worked for
inventions of Otto Lilienthal, born evolved into elegant NASA and helped develop
here in 1848. After observing holiday resorts, with white the Apollo rockets.
storks, he built a flying machine villas, hotels and boarding
and completed his first flight in houses, as typical of E Historisch-technisches
1891. In total he created 2,000 seaside resorts. Worth a Museum
machines, none of which flew visit is the industrialist Im Kraftwerk. Tel (038371)
further than 350 m (1148 ft). Oechler’s house in 50 50. Open Apr–Sep:
Heringsdorf (Delbrück- 10am–6pm; Oct–Mar:
E Otto-Lilienthal-Museum straße 5), which has an 10am–4pm. Closed
Ellbogenstraße 1. Tel (03971) 24 55 antique appearance V-2 rocket Mon (Nov–Mar).
Renovated houses around the Fischmarkt in Greifswald 00. Open Jun–Sep: 10am–5pm with mosaics on its in Peenemünde ∑ peenemuende.de
For hotels and restaurants in this area see p503 and pp532–3

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