KDF PRORA SOUTH SECTION, FROM JASMINER BODEN

Prora, Island of Rügen, Germany

 

Prora followed a very precise layout of initially 80 individual stairway blocks, all connected to the main entrance. This would give Prora a total length of roughly 6km along the Prorer Wiek beachfront. Every single room measure exactly 2.5m x 5m, some of them had connection doors for families. Prora could thus accommodate 20’000 visitors at once. Today unfortunately the majority of the blocks are no longer accessible to visitors, although some investors now do restore some sections to offer high-end flats to wealthy customers.

 

It was on a mid-week late afternoon when I walked pass the South Section of Prora.

The exposure was made off the wall on the first building. It was hazy due to high clouds and I used a yellow filter to give a bit more contrast to the scenery. The light post and the wall section to the left were kept purposely to give the viewer a better feeling of the length of the building, the last stairway block to the far right is approx. 500m away.

 

Prora remains today the longest housing building ever build on planet earth, this despite the fact that only half of it was eventually achieved. If you ever have the opportunity to visit Prora, don’t hesitate to do so, you will be in for a real treat.

 

 

Technical Data

Rolleiflex SL66

Carl Zeiss Planar

4.0/150mm

Done