Departing Rรถblinsee through the Fรผrstenberg lock and crossed the canal into Stolpsee, and although intending just to stop at a municipal harbour to check out the town, we ended up staying moored at entrance to Himmelspfort, the spot turning out to be idyllic, essentially all to ourselves and aligned with what we envisioned camping by boat would be. After we got settled, we took a look at the ancient town named for a former Cistercian monastery, abandoned and left for ruins after sacralisation but the adjacent brewery founded by the monks was still intact and active.
The town is also known for its Weihnachtspostamt, upholding a tradition
began by two postal workers in 1984 when they started answering
children’s letters to Santa Claus (the Weihnachtsmann in East German
times)—the whole town kind of has a Christmas theme and today, the
postal service answers around three-hundred thousand letters from all
over the world, but apparently is only one of seven addresses in Germany
for such dispatches.
synchronoptica
one year ago: fantastic spiralling art with AI (with synchronoptica), a graphic design collection curated by Kristen Lound plus LEGO as a media for fine art
seven years ago: murderous dioramas, proposed sovereignty for a Great Lake plus Japanese bathroom ghosts
eight years ago: Obama to his successor on unfinished business, solar plasma eruptions, a new front in the Cola Wars plus early canned, robotic music
nine years ago: holiday creep
ten years ago: the Ebola outbreak, stealing drug-offenders identities plus the landed gentry unchanged for a thousand years
