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3 unusual facts about Usedom


Arnold Strippel

Strippel then served in Majdanek near Lublin Poland, Ravensbruck, then at Peenemünde on the Usedom peninsula, in the Karlshagen II forced labor camp, the site of V-2 rocket production and launches.

Usedom

In the meantime, a Cistercian nunnery was founded in Krummin and soon almost the whole island was in the possession of one or the other of the ecclesiastical orders.

In 1155 the Premonstratensians established a monastery in Grobe, generally known as Usedom Abbey, which in 1309 was moved to the village of Pudagla.


Balmer See

At that time it belonged, together with five other parished on Usedom (Ückeritz, Mellenthin, Loddin, Suckow and Krienke), to the estate of the bishops of Cammin.

Greifswalder Oie

It is about 12 kilometres off the shore of Usedom and belongs administratively to the municipality of Kröslin on the mainland.

Usedom Island Nature Park

Gothensee, seit 1967, mit 800 ha das größte NSG auf Usedom, mit Niedermoor Thurbruch

Wilhelm Meinhold

Meinhold was born in Lütow on the island of Usedom, where his father Georg Wilhelm Meinhold (1767–1728) was a Lutheran priest.


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