There is an optical phenomenon called looming in which objects at sea appear to be floating in the air above water level. In Spring 2021 such an image photographed went viral online. (click n the image for article.) Apparently this phenomenon was well known throughout...
This is a popular German legend about Vineta and how the city reappears every hundred years for a day. I have not found an author to this version of the legend and also no professional english translation yet. Two motives appear in many versions of the legend: There...
This is the version from Ludwig Bechsteins collection of German Legends from 1853: Bei der Insel Usedom ist eine Stelle im Meere, eine halbe Meile von der Stadt gleichen Namens, da ist eine große, reiche und schöne Stadt versunken, die hieß Vineta. Sie war ihrer Zeit...
Vineta is a mythical sunken city off the German or Polish North Sea Coast. I was suprised to find out that the first mention of Vineta can be found in the travel writings of Ibrahim ibn Yaqub from around 960 CE. According to historians, Ibn Yaqub was a traveler and...
German born and UK based visual artist Mariele Neudecker creates aquarium installations of forests, houses or vessels since the late 1990's. Her so called "tank works" are three dimensional landscapes that evoque German romanticism, scientific artefacts as well as the...
Map by German scientist Athanasius Kircher (1602 - 1680)
German annalist and farmer Peter Sax (1597 - 1662) wrote about the North Sea flood of October 11th 1634: „Um sechs Uhr am abend fing Gott der Herr aus dem Osten mit Wind und Regen zu wettern, um sieben wendete er den Wind nach dem Südwesten und ließ ihn so stark...
from the movie 2067 (2020) [Es] ist der Reiz der Ruine, dass hier ein Menschenwerk ganz wie ein Naturprodukt empfunden wird. Dieselben Kräfte, die durch Verwitterung, Ausspülung, Zusammenstürzen, Ansetzen von Vegetation dem Berge seine Gestalt verschaffen, haben sich...
Famous german novel "The Rider on a white Horse (Schimmelreiter)" by Theodor Storm draws on a superstition and theme that appears in numerous folk tales from the region of the North and Baltic Sea: In order to build a durable and reliable dyke, a living being has to...
Probably not the first motion picture about a flooded city, but certainly the most influential one. In the 1927 movie the city is a completely fictious science fiction vesion of a city. It is thus more comparable to the new towns that are currently being planned to...
