[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help Reading Old German Script on Back of Photo - Cranz Baltic Sea Resort

[Nancy Gertner]

Thanks for the great info.

Vintage photos can be such a treasure.

I regret that my trip to Poland in 2005 did not allow time for a  
visit to any Baltic beach resort esplanade.

Nancy

On Apr 4, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Günther Böhm wrote:

> Sig Matt schrieb:
>> Now to the missing word, the name of the town.
>> "Fluechtlingsheim ...... .....?
>> I take my clue from the "Koenigsberger Str." that points to  
>> Eastprussia (Ostpreussen).
>> Then looking sharply at the fuzzy word I see a capitol  C- r- a-  
>> n- z,  (Cranz)
>> The second word is  Ostpr. Again a commonly used abbreviation, in  
>> that time period, of the word Ostpreussen,.
>>
>> Cranz was a resort town in it's time, (today "Selenogradsk",  
>> Kaliningradskaja Oblast, Russia.
>> It lies roughly 25 km due north of Koenigsberg on the Baltic Sea.  
>> It had miles of beautiful shallow white beach.
>>
> Hello John,
> Sig is right! The words "Cranz Ostpr" are correcly spelled:
>
>
>    4. Cranz was a beach resort at the Baltic Sea. There were enough
>       buildings to be used as refugee homes.
>    5. Cranz had a "Königsberger Straße". Its actual (Russian) name is
>       "Kurort Prospekt". www.cranz.de.vu says that it got an asphalt
>       surface and gas light in 1937. So apparingly the Königsberger
>       Straße was the esplanade along the beach.
>    6. Though the photograph was taken in a studio, its background
>       wallpaper shows the beach and the studio floor is covered by  
> sand
>       (the photographer used to take vacation pictures).
>
> The German Cranz homepage www.cranz.de.vu is owned by
>
>     Klaus A. LUNAU
>     Bahnhofstr. 14
>     D-30853 Langenhagen
>     Phone +49 511 773407
>     Fax +49 511 7684843
>     E-mail KALUN at ostseebad-cranz.de
>
> I think he has much more information for you.
>
> Günther
>
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