Monday 20 July 2015

More Mölln

{Warning - lots and lots and lots of pictures!]

Why and how I came to be in the north of Germany (roughly 800 km away from home) on that very hot first July weekend, I've already told you here. On that first evening, our friend walked with us around the old town, the park and the lake. Mölln is a beautiful place, a small town of 19.000 inhabitants, and many buildings show an architectural style very typical for northern Germany.

See for yourself:

The old town of Mölln, as seen from the opposite bank of the lake:
 

An abandoned house that used to be either a surgery or a lawyer's office; my friend wasn't sure which.

In the spa park:


This looks like a castle, but in fact it is a water reservoir:


 Can't say I'd mind living in this house - it looks like somehing out of a storybook:





All those red brick and timber facades are typical for this area. Everything looked rather well cared for (apart from the abandoned house, maybe), and it was a pleasure to walk there; it was still very warm, but there was always a bit of freshness in the air coming from the lake.

22 comments:

  1. Beautiful houses, they all look like castles and palaces!

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  2. Absolutely lovely series of photos!

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    1. Thank you, Linda! I can't remember having seen you here before, so: Welcome to my blog!

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  3. What an interesting variety of houses, and I think I'd like the storybook one too. I often feel an urge to rescue abandoned houses - I really don't know why!

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    1. This one would make a good home, I think. It has a nice size and its condition is not too bad yet from what I could tell from the outside. Maybe someone will snap it up and there will be visible changes to it next time my friends and I come to Mölln.

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  4. Fascinating. In England, it used to be that every region had its own house building style - sometimes these differences were quite subtle. Nowadays with modern houses there is a growing and sad uniformity about new building. Is it the same in Germany?

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    1. Yes, Neil, it is the same in Germany. A Bavarian village will look different from a Swabian one, and farm houses in the north were not built in the same manner and with the same materials as those in the south. Same was true for clothes. People used to wear outfits traditional to their places, the dirndl probably being the best known, but certainly not the only one.

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  5. Wonderful photos....I have not been very much in more northern parts of Germany, just in Koeln when Paul was at a conference there and in Celle near Hanover where his mother's family originally lived. (He has a gg grandfather who was in the King's German Legion and fought at Waterloo.) I was fascinated by the differences in the building style.

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    1. I like such differences, too.
      Köln is a city I've been to often, working there at the computer games fair every summer, but it is not a place I find particularly beautiful. It is more or less in the middle, geographically, and not a northern town. The inter city express train from Stuttgart to Köln takes less than 2 1/2 hours, while it is more than twice that time to go to Hamburg.

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  6. Thank you for posting these. I find it fascinating to see where others live. I love all the houses and especially the story book one.

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    1. You are welcome! It really is fascinating looking at where and how others live, isn't it.

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  7. Beautiful pictures! If I were to move to Germany, I would gladly live in the Storybook House! Very picturesque! Every boy in that village must have grown up to be a brick mason; lovely architecture!
    I read the previous post and now I simply must have Cheese Cookies! I think that will be tomorrow's treat for myself. Thanks for the tour!

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    1. Thank you! Yes, the storybook house is beautiful, isn't it.
      I hope your cheese cookies turn out well :-)

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  8. Like others of your readers I find the different building styles fascinating especially as most of my time in Germany has been spent in the area between the UK and Berlin and in Bavaria: mainly in Berlin. I thoroughly enjoyed the visit. Thank you.

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    1. Both Berlin and Bavaria are very different from this area; I am glad I was able to show you something of Germany you are not familiar with.

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  9. Beautiful. I haven't visited Germany for years.

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    1. It certainly is a good area for visiting, especially for those who love swimming or boating. All you need is good luck with the weather - German summers are not always like the one we are enjoying right now!

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  10. Yes, very much like from a storybook! They look strangely familiar to me and I could only recognize them from pictures from books. Would love to see Germany one day!

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    1. And I would love to play your tourist guide in Germany one day, Kay, you know that!
      I wonder whether the person who had that house built maybe really wanted the architect to re-create something they remembered from a storybook...

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  11. It looks like a really pretty town. I think the houses are just gorgeous - the shapes of the doors and windows, the brick, the roof lines - and all so different from what we have here in the UK. x

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    1. Very different from what we have here in the South of Germany, too.

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