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I do not think with journalists, who are said facetiously, They looked at a church from the outside. I'm going in. I'm also in Benz on the island of Usedom Pomeranian and experience an old pastor, speaks to first-graders. A child-friendly way, he wants to outline to you the history of the place and its famous church. After all, it has the world-famous German-American painter Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) richly varied, times in oil, times in open water colors, recorded for posterity.
Lyonel Feininger's favorite object, he painted the church of St. Petri repeatedly in Benz.
The pastor told very much alive and ends with a great history, which leaves the second-graders sit up. He had found an old document in the church tower, the strange, contains indecipherable characters. A fellow Chinese but was able to decipher one of the magic characters. as it stood three large B, BBB, and the Chinese also knew their meaning. A Benzer shower tree would grow in the church garden.
"Have you ever seen a shower tree?“ – "No", shout the kids. – "But", replied the pastor, "We look at ourselves now at this."
The children burst out. In fact, hanging there on a tree yellow lemonade bottle, and red, the tires", are already in the grass. Cheering children are certainly the pastor.
During the renovation of St. Petri in Benz, 1229 first mentioned, the medieval structure Feldstein was exposed again. The upper tower and the interior with fine painted coffered ceiling date from the 18./19. century.
The native Americans Feininger stayed like in the tranquil Achterland, the hinterland, on the island. On his bicycle brand Cleveland Ohio with wooden rims and rubber tires he drove every year tens of thousands of kilometers. Where he liked it, he threw the bike into the ditch and sketched the landscape, a way, Benzer the Dutch Windmill 1830, up 1972 was in operation, or even the Church St. Petri.
1912 Feininger wrote from Benz, translated as: "I am in the midst of the motifs, I like and inspire me. "The drawing of Benzer Erdholländers, the first pictorial representation of the art monument, today has the Rockefeller family.
That and much more experienced by the visitors in the pretty thatched gallery next to St. Petri. For the eighth country tubular- or reed roofs, So thatched houses, typical, while in the three "imperial resorts" the Pomeranian Bay, Ahlbeck, Heringsdorf and Bansin, the bath architecture prevails, a successful summation of all epochs from Antiquity to Art Nouveau, in the 19. Century and was built in the period up to the First World War on the coast: Loggien, parapets, Veranden, Bay window, Turrets or columns.
The gallery owner John Albers is proud of his little Feininger Cabinet (www.kunstkabinett.de) with prints and an original letter, which the ostracized in Germany Feininger 1937 wrote from exile in the United States: "What will become of all 'our artist friends in nunmehrigen' Naziland '???“
Also the painter of wheel 1897 is kept in the Art Cabinet. Albers, of "our little thatch hut" since 1955 operates, the year, painted in the Feininger the church Benzer, gladly explains the content of an image. An art print from the "City Hall in Swinoujscie" hangs on the wall twice, once with Polish title, once on German. In the painting it go, satirically exaggerated, the fine ladies, tall and chic wardrobe, the promenade in the Emperor Swinoujscie and their small round men dominate. The men have the thick money for the Schick her ladies. "The really first Emperor", supplemented Albers, "Was in fact Swinoujscie." Its time as a seaside resort began 1820. The "3 Imperial Spas" the island of Usedom, Ahlbeck, Heringsdorf and Bansin, took over the crowd-name. Not without reason, because Wilhelm II., the last German Emperor, chose it as a summer retreat.
The historical Ahlbeck pier on Usedom is the oldest originally preserved pier on the German Baltic coast.With so much Feininger it is no wonder, that the island devotes a bike trail the celebrity, 56 Kilometers long and characterized by way signage, but also by bronze plates in the ground in front of the respective objects. 40 places, where you over 80 can understand his paintings.
The art print of Benzer church with dimensions 31 x 42 cm on a sheet in the format of 40 x 50 cm Size costs in the gallery 36 Euro, In shipment (with a roller) 45 Euro. Since the gallery is characterized by excellent acoustics, may use every September the spaces for concerts, the Usedom Music Festival.
1924 but also walked none other than Thomas Mann together with his wife Katia and the children on the boardwalk and feilte in Bansiner "home lake" on the last chapter of his century novel "The Magic Mountain".
In the water castle of Mellenthin from the year 1575 can dine sumptuously.
Mellenthin is the place, where the same water castle years 1575 serves as a hotel and restaurant and seems always fully booked. Because the portions are made for giants? Meanwhile, it has opened a brewery and a coffee roasting. Two euro "bridge toll" it costs, to approach the castle. But which are taken into account when eating.
should pre-order a table fish friends, they want to eat in the "Water View" in Loddin. Here they have a beautiful view of the backwaters of the peninsula Görmitz, and meet with the northernmost vineyards of Germany at Peter Noack 99 Rebstöcken. The maintenance of the twelve-year-old Pomeranian vineyard and production of the deep red Cabernet Sauvignon "Loddiner sunset" leaves Mr. Noack prefer a winemaker from the Nahe, because "we Pomerania should dig potatoes, of wine we have no idea, which is too complex. "
The backwaters, that separates from the mainland together with the Peenestrom the unusually shaped island, you learn best in a tour with the "White Dune" know. On the trip from Neppermin to Karlshagen the schooner must cross the bascule bridge Wolgast, which opens only at fixed times. Spectacular experience, especially in a Abendtörn and glutrotem sunset.
In a Abendtörn by Wolgaster Bascule Bridge. The sails have to be sought.
A technical masterpiece was the Karniner Hubbrücke, but she was on 23. April 1945 blown up by the Wehrmacht, the advancing Red Army stopped.
Most of the island, together with the neighboring Polish island of Wolin since 1966 signposted conservation area and as a nature park with an owl, a refuge for fauna and flora. Here one counts the largest Eagle population in Germany. At best they were from the Zecheriner bridge, possible early morning, to sift. Binoculars provided, so that they do not confuse about the black-headed gull. The noisy traffic towards Anklam they do not disturb.
There, in Usedomer angle, you can also view the equal a technical monument declared railroad lift bridge of Karnin. A masterpiece, 1876 when 360 built-meter long five-arch bridge for the railway Ducherow-Swinoujscie. For ship transits there was a swing bridge. Increasing number of trains required a construction of the bridge opening. Here, they opted for a lift bridge, which operates on the principle of the elevator niederfinow boat lift. The End 1933 they took the bridge into operation, a speed of 100 Kilometers per hour allowed. Am 23. April 1945 the army blew up the pillars of the superstructure and drove the "troughs" up, the advancing Red Army stopped.
One of the most beautiful avenues of trees – it should 337 eighty- to be 100 years old trees – leading to the 130-strong village Krummin, the is called because of its tiny marina in the Krumminer Wiek "Little Nice". From there you can look to the peninsula Gnitz. The centerpiece of Gothic 750 Years old brick church, the oldest of Usedom, is the last remaining portion of a Zisterzienserinnen convent. Relax with homemade cakes and home cooking can be in the "sweet tooth", the first and only seat, standing- and deck cafe Usedom. Gesine, Peter and the cat, with their apartments and place to sleep (Tel. 038366/02213).
Tulips floor lamp at the Maritim Hotel, with zipper, the one tear open depending on the time of day or can draw
An original lift door there is the Maritim Hotel to see. As one might fly on the wall…
Perhaps the most beautiful place to sleep, Relax and unwind find holiday at the Maritim Hotel Kaiserhof in Heringsdorf overlooking the Baltic Sea, the expansive beach and the pier. The interior design beautiful decorations fascinating in every corner of the hotel, im Palmengarten, in the elegant conservatory with fireplace, Bistro Don Herring with sundeck, in the summer garden with piano bar, the casino in historic rooms, and they are so outlandish, that one might need a whole day, to explore all the details. As an example, only the chirping bird feeder or the lamps are mentioned, in the conservatory from countless wine glasses, in the corridors tulips Chandelier with zipper, which can tear or pull the time of day. A large spa area, a marine Vitalgarten, the ThalassoPlus center and a physiotherapy practice, funds medically approved, complete the offer. All year round there are excursion programs for guests, about an Island Safari by Land Rover or an e-bike tour along the beach promenade and across the island. But you can also alone in the summer and make a beach walk on the beach white dunes to Poland in winter or cycle along the path along the promenade.
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