24T32 All 16 German federal states visited

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Travel day 32 is very long, as I make my way from HGW Greifswald to BA Bamberg, via Berlin and Würzburg, with delays caused by infrastructure issues and rolling effects from recent heavy flooding in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Up at 430am and out the door at 6am from the HGW “Pension”, I finally arrive and step into my BA hotel room at 6pm, for a total of 12 hours door-to-door.

This provides an opportunity to look back at the past month, and highlight other (unposted) images from time spent in two German federal states. Saarland in the southwest corner and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the northeast corner were my final two states on the list.

I’ve now visited all 16 of Germany’s Bundesländer or federal states.

Saarland (SL)

After the end of the war, Saarland was a French protectorate in 1947. In a 1955 referendum, almost 68% of voters decided against remaining with France, and with the signing of The Saar Treaty in 1956, the Saarland and its capital Saarbrücken officially joined (West) Germany as a federal state in 1957.

Ludwigskirche, from Saarbrücken’s Ludwigsplatz – 14 May (0.5x).
Blieskastel, near Saarbrücken – 15 May.
Watching over the former Völklingen ironworks, from Völklinger Platz – 16 May.

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV)

Also known in English as Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, the state capital is Schwerin, not to be confused with Schleswig; while Rostock is the largest city in the state.

Gerhart Hauptmann elementary school, in that classic northern-European brick-Gothic style. Stralsund – 1 June (0.5x).
Stralsund market square: 30 vs. 1, in 30 simultaneous chess marches – 1 June.
Rügen’s chalk cliff coastline – 3 June.
Near Ernst-Moritz-Arndt viewpoint – 3 June.
Prora Südstrand (south beach), facing south – 4 June.
Prora Südstrand (south beach), facing north – 4 June.
Prora Südstrand: rescue boat from DLRG (German Lifeguard Association), waters of the Prorer Wiek (Prora Bay) as part of the Ostsee (Baltic Sea), cliffs forming the Sassnitz coastline in the background – 4 June.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 in May and June of 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

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