This lavishly illustrated book is devoted to Stettin or Szczecin, the capital city of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. In the vicinity of the Baltic Sea, it is the country's seventh-largest city and a major seaport in Poland.
It has stunning photos of the 1930s and 1940s of an old town in Pomerania, how it looked prior war destruction in 1945.
Depicted are [excerpt]:
The Tower of the church of the Castle - castle of the duke of Pomerania, the town museum, the seaport with steamboats, the cruiser 'Karlsruhe' in the port, aerial view of the city, icebreaker 'stettin', old storehouses, fish market, main customs office, power station, vegetable market at Schwedter waterside, market square, train station, town hall, Manzel Fountain, post office, the "breite strasse" , Jakobi Curch, Lindenstrasse, Berlin Gate, Hohenzoller Square, garrison church, tomb of Generalfeldmarschall Count Friedrich von Wrangel, Bugenhagen Church, Parade Square, pub Ponath, emperor Wilhelm monument, the kings square and savings bank, public garden, the theater, Jakobikirche, stock market, palace of Loitzen, many harbor scenes, paper mill, Bismarck Tower, sports ground, Martin Lake, cemetery, Swinemunde, Misdroy, Wollin, Usedom....
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