Signs of grandeur

Dargun had a nice lake which one imagines is popular in the summer. We walked down to its beach then into town.

These Soviet cemeteries were common in the area. I wonder where the German Kriegsgraben were?

Dargun had a ruined castle/kloster as it's main attraction. [Was it a subtle nod to the Sov occupation that the fire that ruined it on 30 April 1945 was not attributed to anyone or any cause? Surely that date is not coincidental?] 

I love the layers you can see in old buildings such as this one. You can make out old doorways and  the lines that mark an extension upward by a floor or two. 

We carried on and called into Guestrow as it had another fancy castle, along with an old town centre. 

This is a memorial to those from Mecklenburg lost in the Napoleonic wars 1813-15.

The Rathaus

Our camp at a marina outside Schwerin.