"Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life."
(Mary Anne Radmacher)
This relatively small abandoned bunker is located north of Parchim Airport. It was built around 1965 and initially served as a command post for the 20th Guards Fighter Regiment stationed at the airfield.
The airfield itself was built as part of the rearmament of the Wehrmacht in the mid-1930s and was opened in 1937.
The US Air Force destroyed the airfield in April 1945.
Four years after the end of the Second World War, the Soviet 20th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was stationed at the rebuilt airport, which was later reorganized as a fighter-bomber...(more)
On the northern edge of the village Lehsen near the course of the Motel stream stands a graceful chapel on a tower hill. Built in 1868, the six-sided plastered central building in neo-Gothic style is the mausoleum of the former von Laffert family, who owned the estate. The von Laffert family acquired the estate in 1690 from the long-established von Blücher family.
The local manor house was commissioned by Ernst August von Laffert and rebuilt in 1822 according to plans by architect Joseph Christian Lillie. In 1904, the von Laffert family had to sell the Lehsen estate....(more)
Published 2024-11-13
We also paid another visit to the third spot on our 2019 Christmas tour during the repeat tour in January 2020. And that was a good thing, because relatively soon afterwards there was a fire in one of the buildings, which meant that the location was literally “burnt”.
Sure - it's not an extremely spectacular place, but a zoological museum with an associated taxidermist is not something you see very often. What's more, I had only taken photos with my cell phone on my first visit, so I wanted to take the opportunity to shoot a few more pictures with the big camera.....(more)
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