318 Comments for Prora KdF Seaside Resort

I have enjoyed looking at some of the abandoned properties and I understand the curiosity but I want to know if at any time can someone purchase one of these properties. You could send an answer to easyon32@yahoo.com your assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Barnabas. I didn't get it until reading your comment. Now that I can 'see' it, it makes the perspective of the pic even better ! ! ! !

Reminds me of the restrooms at a state campground in the FLA Everglades in the mid 1980s. It was difficult to go 'in public' but when you gotta go...you gotta go.

Absolutely gorgeous picture! Your photography skills are great.

what a waste

THe basins at my school look the same (bulid in the 60s ) :D

ACtually, I'm quiete sure that there were stalls. I've never heard (or seen) a public toilett without stalls. Neither in Germany where I live, nor in any other country I've visited.

These are amazing!

The size of this: 20.000 people....what a story........what visions and dreams......what a project...................wonderful gallery have enjoyed. Food for thought. We human beings, hahaha!
Be well and stay in

What a find! This mural has it all. It is dated yet ancient and timeless. Eyes, outer space, Nature and flowers and a wall, and swirls and circles and explosions, crawling and backbones.......am staring............WOW! Who made this? We will never know! You are great, Mr. M.Be well and safe.

I'd stay there if it were done properly: if the siiprt of the project were to reclaim Germany's history from the shadow of the Nazis, and to rehabilitate and take back, to transform something awful into something hopeful and healthy, then yes. If it were turned into some kind of weird Nazi museum or memorial, then no.

It's fairly simple. Picture yourself eye-level with the lower left corner of the photograph. You would be staring at the handrail. From there, you could walk forwards until you reached the wall. To your right would be six or so steps. If you were to go up those steps and turn right, it would leave you facing a bunch more of steps (twenty or more). Basically, what your looking straight at is a wall, not down or up the center of a staircase.

a nice shot! I have never been there although I live in Germany. First I had a little concern about the closing date. In 1990 the two German countries BRD and DDR became one federal republic. The Prora KdF Resort was in fact already abandoned because it was never used as a hotel. This was what I thought :-)

But however, you knew more than I did...

There may have been stalls.

It seems like between the toilets (look two or three tiles in front of the toilets, and half way between every two toilets) theres sort of holes in the tiles... maybe where stalls were anchored. (Look near the bottom right of the picture lol)

I know its a poor explanation but its not easy to explain. Hahaha.

Prora is a beach resort on the island of Rügen, Germany, known especially for its colossal Nazi-planned touristic structures. The massive building complex was built between 1936 and 1939 as a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) project. The eight buildings are identical, and while they were planned as a holiday locale, they were never used for this purpose. The complex has a formal heritage listing as a particularly striking example of Third Reich architecture.



taken from wikipedia