Abandoned Places on the Baltic Sea

They are often not easy to find; sometimes they “spoil” the view of the beautiful landscape. Yet they are always shrouded in an aura of mystery.
The Rostock-based Hinstorff publishing house, in collaboration with the Ostsee-Zeitung, has published a book about abandoned places in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

They include old castles and manor houses, former clinics and health resorts, holiday homes, closed cinemas, overgrown allotment gardens, military and border installations, factories and shipyards. Life once thrived here. Now, for the most part, all is quiet: plaster is crumbling, rain seeps through dilapidated roofs, and plants grow among the remains of walls. And yet—or perhaps precisely because of this—these “lost places” tell fascinating, moving stories of what disappears and what remains.
The following are among the 25 abandoned places described in the book with text and photographs, and are all located close to the Baltic Sea:
The Wustrow Peninsula near Rerik, the Vorder Bollhagen estate near Bad Doberan and the old Moorbad in Bad Doberan, Villa Alexandrine in Heiligendamm, the former Fuhlendorf holiday camp near Barth, the Sommerfeld manor house north of Stralsund, Dwasieden Castle in Sassnitz on Rügen, the ruins of Peenemünde on Usedom and the former “Erich-Steinfurth Sanatorium” in Zinnowitz.
Only a few of them can hope to find a new use in the future.