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The American Star from Fuerteventura


At 31 December 1993 was the American Star on their last journey. Prior to the liner for two million dollars to the Chaophraya Developement Transport Company was sold, which gave the ship's last name. It was drained and it was found that the hull was in one, under the circumstances, in good condition. You should see the giant ocean liner will be converted into a floating hotel off the island of Phuket in Thailand. The Ukrainian tug Neftegaz 67 should take the American Star of Eleusis to Thailand but returned a day after launch the trip back to port, since a strong storm prevented the trip. It was soon followed by the second attempt ...

On 15 January 1994 became the towing association off the Canary Islands in a storm of wind force 11 to 12 The tow lines, with which the liner was pulled did not these natural powers up and down. The attempt to fix the tow ropes again failed, and so drove the American Star drifting toward the coast of Fuerteventura, where they stranded two days after the accident on the secluded beach of Playa de La Pared Garcey between and Ajuy. Previously, the four crew members who were still on the ship were rescued by helicopter. The ship was only with the front Part on the sand bank on the entire tail was hanging but above the seabed. The strong waves of up to 10 foot waves, triggered by the storm, now causes the American Star broke within the first 48 hours at its weakest point in the area of the elevators and the staircase behind the chimney in two parts. The tail was also pressed on the sand bank and remained in a relatively stable situation. Locals rose up in a row, all that was on the ship nor a value to plunder with boats. In the many attempts to climb the ship, have because of the hazards inherent in the wreck, and also because of dangerous currents, already a number of people you Life lost.

The front part has survived to the end of March 2007, which tipped tail, however, already within two years after the accident to the port side and was largely destroyed by environmental influences. Parts of it are still visible in the sand, if they are not stolen by the many visitors who came to the wreck. On aerial and satellite images can still be seen in calm seas very well the contours of the stern in the sand. On 6 July 1994 declared the vessel a total loss and left to nature. The insurance money was paid to the Chaophraya Developement Transport Company. There are rumors that it is the whole constitutes an insurance fraud, but there is no proof.



decay of the wreck

The front section of the ship was purely external view by the end of 2005, so long over 11 years, environmental influences was. Up to this point suggested only to indicate signs of decay along the water line and at the breaking point to the stern to the expected complete disintegration, caused by corrosion and fatigue of the material by the ever surging waves, especially during winter storms.

On the night of 3 on the 4th November 2005 was drawing the bow section remained, however, by 30 degrees to port (ie the lake). The reasons for this were the one hand, the ratio of two stable pillars in the former engine room below the main chimney and on the other hand, the advanced destruction of the planking along the waterline on the port side of the wreck. A few weeks ago, the tensions of the hull of the new position was, between the 12th November and 15 November, however, large parts of the wreck broke in on itself, with them the main chimney.

hit by the tilt of the waves in rough seas, which prevails above all on the west coast of the often already completely over the wreck. Nevertheless, the ship was temporarily stood the forces of nature and its position changed markedly by the end of January 2006 no.


Between January and February 2006, the remaining bow was a lot shorter, because the waves impacting a lot of damage to the aft (rear) edge of the wreck havoc. Also, the damage to the port side was increasing every day, the left bridge wing was torn off completely within a short time. The tendency was for the overhanging, onshore starboard side bent forcibly and partially demolished. At the angle changed, however, not much at first.

slipped towards the end of February, the structures at the fracture site of the wreck from the sea side and pulled the already fragile Ship structures. Between March and April 2006, bent on remaining the foredeck. Meanwhile, the upper deck of the ship was right at sea level. It showed further destruction - the foremast was completely gone and the area around the stump of the front around the former chimney was swept away. The waves were now able to attack the structures of the port side directly.

Between 6 and 11 September, the former front chimney to the forces of the sea and pulled together with the substructure and superstructure several that are due to the angle had caught him, on the deck.
late November of 2006, more than a year after the front section had lost its stable position, the majority of the superstructure of the wreck had disappeared. Only the deck itself was still there in early December. While the port side already through to the forward mast had been removed, there was the starboard side of the trunk still in relatively good condition. The true state of the wreck, the façade-like character of the starboard side of the country could be only guess when water fountains sprayed their hatches.

went in the next few months the decline of the port's external wall. In February 2007 the ship was with the port side already completely in the water.
end of March 2007, the wreck went down almost completely, it recognizes only the smallest Parts of the ship.


beginning of November 2007 rose only two parts of the now broken into three parts prow of the water. On 22 November 2007, only fragments of the former liner to recognize just above the water surface, the SS America is so history.


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you from the beginning was a proud ship, the SS America, which ran in August 1939 from the stack when the then world's largest "Queen of the luxury liner with a length of about 220 m for more than 1,000 passengers.

into military service in 1941, they recovered by the U.S. Navy, renamed the USS West Point and of course also operate as the largest troop transport.
From 1946 until the late seventies, then, under different names in use: Again, as before under the old name SS America almost two decades and then again more than a decade as the SS Australis in the service of Chandris Lines. There was also in 1970, an incident, as in the 26th Voyage of the ship, a fire broke out on board.

From the eighties on we went downhill with it: As Italis, Noga and then eventually for nearly a decade as Alferdoss took place the decline of the once proud ship. Only in 1993 she received her last name, for their last ride, her sad end, and another decade as a ghost ship at the Playa de Garcey read: American Star.

Here there is a very interesting and detailed website on the tragic history of the SS America or American Star.


sources including: www.explorermagazin.de; http://de.academic.ru; http://recurriendoalpasado.blogspot.com;

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Castle Schlobitten

Castle Schlobitten impress even as a ruin today visitors the way in the long overgrown lap parking place. Away from the small village, surrounded by old trees, is the forgotten place.


The name of the place is Old Prussian origin. In 1525, the Begüterung fell to Peter to Dohna (1483 - 1552/53) and from 1589 to 1945 was the site of the headquarters of the line to Dohna-Schlobitten. The Dohna, located in Saxony originally came in the 15th Century of Silesia as knights and mercenary leaders in the country and were awarded for their achievements Schlobitten the Teutonic Order.


the old lime trees, planted in 1625, in rows on the lock injecting high and some of which survived, was strolling once, Friedrich Ernst Daniel Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) when he in his early years from 1790 to 1793 tutor was on Schlobitten. While

the conquest of Prussia by Napoleon made for a short time Marshal Bernadotte 1807, the castle to his headquarters. Ultimately, Kaiser Wilhelm II was often his stay here when he arrived on the hunt for Prince Richards Dohna.

The first Dohna lived in the so-called "new house", built under Achatius Dohna. The following country estate in the Renaissance style on a Dutch model of the 17th Century. was 1621 - 1624 by Abraham Dohna (1579 - 1631), military architect and therefore themselves capable of planning. The house was very soon destroyed by the Swedes, but rebuilt and later became the centerpiece of the Baroque Extension. Abraham Dohna was already a hall in 1627 for his extensive library to grow.

At the high-Baroque building of a palace, commissioned by Alexander to Dohna (1661 - 1728), where from 1696 - built in 1736 and was completed in the main, 1713, at first, the architect Jean Baptist Broebes ( born 1660), then military architect in Pillau, and Johann Caspar Hindersin (1667 or 1677-1738) involved. From 1704 the building was also affected by Joachim Ludwig mayor of Unfried, head of the East Prussian civil engineering, the middle section increased this to a low level. They built on the existing building at side galleries, perpendicular to the side wings were added to the castle. A special feature was abandoned in the central representative castle entrance and replaced them by two balanced inputs in addition to the cross wings.


Schlobitten was transformed into an imposing baroque residence, and her business spacious courtyard and the gardens to none in East Prussia. It was also one of the East Prussian royal castles, so called because they had the task of disposal of the Prussian king on his travels through the province as an appropriate hostel available.

two symmetrically positioned rectangular Schloss ponds - former moat - with a stone bridge on the front axle were the financial statements. The administrative and commercial buildings with the main gate, the so-called gray gate on the axis of the lock, was located upstream of the system. Parallel to the castle had been erected here two outbuildings, in the north-east vertical two commercial buildings on the east side stood the stables of the entrance tower topped by Uhrtürmchen. The planned farm buildings on the west side and the two commercial buildings in the north unfortunately remained unfulfilled. Prior to the south side of the castle was the sprawling beautiful French garden.


to possession Schlobitten were still in the mansions Prökelwitz, David (since 1730), Coellmen (since 1820) and Behlenhof (since 1845).

Castle Schlobitten had 70 rooms. In the elaborately decorated banquet hall for special occasions, 80 guests are entertained, cared for by 30 staff. A library with over 50,000 valuable books, 450 paintings, coin collections, tapestries, ornate furniture and rare pottery made Schlobitten a true treasure. Over 1,500 hectares of land were 160 farm worker families. To the social services after 1918 was even a special nursing home for lonely old people. As

oldest warmblood breeding in East Prussia, stud book of 1623, could also Schlobitten in the breeding of Trakehner look back on with great success. Famous sires as "temple guardian" were stationed here. Kaiser Wilhelm II, who appeared frequently on hunting brought the family Dohna hereditary prince in 1900 and was godfather to the last owner, Prince Alexander Dohna (1988-1997).
Prince Alexander Dohna, 1939 drafted into military service, left as a courier with one of the last aircraft to Stalingrad. In May 1944 he was fired for insubordination (shooting of American prisoners of war) from the armed forces.

already employed since 1943 he feared the flight. The result was a detailed plan of escape for more than 330 people in the West. On 22
January 1945 sat three columns with 140 horses and 38 cars in time for the arrival of the Russian army movement. After 1,500 miles, completed in 9 weeks, reached this largest single stretch of East Prussia, the Weser. Also present were French prisoners of war and 31 valuable Trakehner mares.


Schlobitten Castle was the arrival of the Red Army on 23 January 1945 destroyed arbitrarily and set on fire and burned according to statements by retarded people full 3 days.
Small bits of the device could be 1944, relocated to the west and are scattered in museums. In the Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin, the largest collection is in the so-called "Dohna room".


The ruins of the side wings were demolished after the war, the outer walls of the main house are up today. Stables and a brewery in the North East were taken in spring 1945 by Allied bombs and cleared away the ruins after the war. There is still the former liquor house, built in 1704/05. It is run but no more and falls.


Meanwhile, employed a number of architecture students from Poland with plans to restore the castle and its wise use. Concrete implementation intentions are not known, but perhaps arises the Castle of the Dohna but again according to the old glory. Today's owner of the plant the AWRSP (National Agency for Agricultural Property) is.


Addendum with old color photographs of the castle Schlobitten from the years 1943-45, all taken by photographer Rudolf Schulze-Marburg.

on the website of the Central Institute for Art History (www.zi.fotothek.org) can be found including the Farbdiaarchiv, which also includes recordings from Schlobitten. On the history of this Institute's website gives information:

For fifty years, the Central Institute for Art History in Munich preserved for the Federal Republic of Germany, a series of 39,000 Colordiapositiven under the name "Historic Farbdiaarchiv for wall and ceiling paintings" on. This in the years 1943-1945, ie the middle of the second World War-made recordings are the result of an attempt of the National Socialist regime, solid wall of art in the entire territory of the Reich in the face of their imminent destruction by bombing as possible to document the colors correctly. On the orders of Adolf Hitler

were in the early summer of 1943, first performed a few test campaigns. After the results, he could be present in the form of large-format prints on paper, had found his approval, took over the "Department of Visual Arts" of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda further administrative implementation of the "leaders order color photography." In cooperation with the Ministry Monument offices created lists of all rated as important fresco decorations in the German Empire, committed photographers, ensured the unity of cameras, lenses and film, lighting equipment procured and organized their transport to the respective locations. [...]

The photographers were drawn from completely different sectors, the spectrum handed out by the university professor and his students, such as Walter Hege, the established photo journalist (Paul Wolff), the art historian (Carl Lamb), chemists (Ralph Weizsäcker) to large enterprises such as the "Rex-Film" or the "Ufa".
took the major campaign, combined with a significant risk even if well paid for the photographer until into April 1945 ends, so virtually until the surrender of the German Empire.

more interior shots that show the splendor of the interior of this castle can be found here: Farbdiaarchiv


source include: www.ostpreussen.net; www.masuren.de; www.arta.olsztyn.pl, Central Institute for Art History; Wikipedia

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Bumbalgsund

After Madame got reasonably well in the box (I Pippilotta same with this plugged in, so it is quiet) and we no great outcry at the vet arrived, we was the turn immediately.

He looked in wonder at all the documents I had brought from the hospital. Looking at the CT images that I had brought on a CD (as were the surgical fixation with pictures on it), he wrinkled his only forehead.

"And now she is okay again and eats normal?" He asked me. I did, and he said it was really a very complicated case.

But in short, I no longer exciting to you in suspense:
It is, as they say in Bavaria, and well :-) bumbalgsund

And now she must first recover from ;-) all the stress

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I almost did it missed ....

10,000, but only almost! But what one has the mistress? She has told me ;-) It is sheer madness .. 10,000 people have visited my blog, read my story, and mitgelieten mitgefreut. The odd friendship was created by and much has changed in the last year, since these things happened, did.

morning opens up the next one, because mum says something about control and she is curious if she gets me in the box. What do they mean by that ... hhhmmmm ... well tomorrow I will live to experience and report to you then!

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PS Oh yes mistress has said that many pictures have disappeared from the blog because it has not yet uploaded to the old system. But she wants the daily care of it and then set all ... ha ha ha'm curious how it will make the duck ... and away ;-)

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The voting Monument in Olsztyn


The voting Monument in Olsztyn was a patriotic memorial to the fate of the eleven southern districts of East Prussia in the German Reich after the referendum was designed in 1920.

Olsztyn was the seat of the German and the Inter-Allied Commission. After the vote result was clear the eleven districts of East Prussia on 18 August 1920 in Olsztyn back to the German Reich. To commemorate the historic victory in 1928 the vote monument in the city park Jakobsberg was built. The Berlin architect Walter Krueger, and John had designed it. The park was created called Georg-Zülch Square.

With the arms of the county seats were the eleven columns of the circular memorial for the eleven Masurian voting districts. On the inside of the yoke of the password and the result of the following were noted: 'home in danger - this country will stay German "and" It's true in the southern East Prussia: 363 209 for Germany - 7980 for Poland. "


On the four sides of the altar stone in the middle was the people and country - self-determination - Unity and justice and freedom - Home.

The monument belongs to the vote monument in Marienburg and the Grunwald Monument in Hohenstein to the patriotic memorials in East Prussia between the world wars. The monument was removed in 1945 by the Polish government. In its place today in 1972 established the Polish monument "heroes in the struggle for national and social liberation in the Warmia and Mazury.


sources including: Wikipedia

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The bridge at Laasan / Lower Silesia


The bridge over the water at Striegauer Laasan (now Lazany) no longer exists. She was the first German road bridge made of iron. The supplier of design was the iron foundry Malapane located on the same river. By the middle of the 18th Century were at the site of present city dense forests. Having been discovered on the large lawn Malapane Eisenstein camp took place in 1753 and 1754 on the orders of King Frederick II of Prussia, the construction of two blast furnaces river.

was built in 1796 Laasan the first navigable cast iron bridge (for vehicles) in Germany. It was after the Coalbroakdale (1779) Bridge in England, the first traffic bridge on the European mainland. The Iron Bridge in Wörlitzer Park (various information: 1784, 1791) is older, but it is only a pedestrian bridge.

place via this bridge, following contemporary text. "On the right bank of the Striegauer water, an iron bridge leads by 18 feet wide, 9 feet high and 40 feet voltage or arc length of the Striegauer water direction Saarau This is the first in Silesia and Malapane to by the Englishman [John] Baildon cast, with 60 workers in 15 weeks and patch on July 30, 1796 iron bridge opened on the European mainland. The weight of iron is 946 ton and 18.5 pounds. "


The cost for the construction of the cast iron bridge carrying the Lasaaner Reich Graf Wilhelm von Burg Niclas house Laasan.

The bridge over the Striegauer water was made so excellent that it existed almost 150 years. However, it was blown up by the German army withdrawal 1945th Today, it no longer exists, only the remains were later found and recovered.


sources including: Wikipedia; http://ndtponton.wordpress.com/2009/04/12/brucke-uber-das-striegauer-wasser-bei-laasan; www.oberschlesisches-erbe.de; www.bendorf-geschichte.de/bdf-0059.htm; www.bernd-nebel.de; www.horst-adler.de

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The deer monument in the Rominter Heide

The bronze sculpture of the largest deer shot by Kaiser Wilhelm, a 1909 shot 16enders, by Prof. Richard Friese modeled in 1911 and once stood next to the Hubertus chapel against the imperial hunting lodge in Rominten.


About Richard Friese (1854 - 1918) can be found on the following www.ostpreussen.net:

He was born in Gumbinnen the son of a government official and died in Bad. He became famous for his pictures of animals killed and his bronze sculptures of animals such as the capital for the final sixteen Hubertus chapel of the imperial hunting lodge Rominten, which is inspired Wilhelm II had. [...]


Many of his designs he found in East Prussia - in IBENHORST forest, the Great Moss break that Rominter Heath and the Neman lowland. In addition to works of painting such as the tubes we Deer "or" early in the morning Rominter Heather "(now in the East Prussian State Museum, Lüneburg), he created many sculptures of animals, including the defunct Hirsch figures on the bridge in Deer Rominten.

Only the plastic deer has survived the ravages of war healing. The Russians have taken away after the war Rominten. She is now at a children's playground in the park of Glinka Smolensk. Whether there today anyone knows the history of the plastic may very well be doubted ...


Rominten In itself there are very few traces of German and especially the imperial past. From Hirsch Memorial site, there are only base remains. Also from the Hubertus chapel, once in the immediate vicinity of the plastic, just back up to the exposed foundation is nothing left, just as the imperial Jadgschloss. Whose whereabouts and other traces of the German past in the heathland Rominter such as deer or bridge the Reich by Hermann Goering Jägerhof I dealt with in my next entries here.


sources including Wikipedia; www.ostpreussen.net