My Visit to Kostrzyn and the Seelow Heights

[Kim Sung]

On June 17, I met Musashi at Kostrzyn and visited the remains of the Old Fortress there and the Seelow Heights Museum. I post photos that I and Musashi took. Sorry for my belated post.

I had to get up early to keep a promise with Musashi. I got S-5 train to Lichtenberg station at Berlin.


The road to Küstrin fortress


Remains of the fortress




Ruins of the fortress




Monument for fallen Red Army soldiers in the battle of Kostrzyn




Graves of Red Army soldiers who had fallen in the battle of Kostrzyn




Oder river


In memory of fallen heroes


List of fallen heroes


Graves of Heroes of the Soviet Union

[PJF]

Nice photos Kim

Did you take any from the Oder floodplain area in front of Seelowe Hohen? During my visit I travelled through that area and was struck by the lack of cover and the numerous drainage ditches that crossed it. Unfortunately weather conditions that day were not too good and my photos did not turn out well

[Kim Sung]

Did you take any from the Oder floodplain area in front of Seelowe Hohen?

Unfortunately, I couldn't take any photo of the Oder floodplain area because my digital camera had little power then. I didn't recharge it before I go to Poland. But, instead, I filmed the Oder floodplain area with my camcorder. I don't know how to get still photos from moving pictures. Anyway, I'll try to get still photos of the Oder floodplain area from my camcorder tape.

[Kim Sung]

Photos taken at the Seelow Heights Museum

Soviet cannons




Battle maps






Dioramas








A battleship which participated in the Berlin offensive


Grenades used in the battle

[Potsdamerplatz]

Nice photographs Kim Sung!!!

Your first photograph of the Berlin Charlottenburg S-Bahnhof - I used to live on the other side of the road on Stuttgarter Platz only a few hundred metres away

A very nice part of Berlin

[Kim Sung]

There was a red light street just near the Charlottenburg station. I remember a name, the Banana club that was beside the homestay house where I was staying. It was just 100m from the station.

[Kim Sung]

More dioramas

[Musashi]

Two last batches of photos posted by Kim Sung were taken by me with my digital camera I have them in greater resolution on my hard drive. The problem was, these objects were behind the glass, that reflected the flash of lamp and there was not enough light to take the photos without the lamp.

[Kim Sung]

I forgot to post some important photos.

May I change 'In Flanders Fields' by John McCrae into the Seelow version?


'In Seelow Fields'

In Seelow fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Seelow fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Seelow fields.


They died a heroic death in Seelow fields.

[Kim Sung]

You can see Seelow fields over here.

[Fallschirmjäger]

Did you see any german graves,or they where not allowed to bury there dead here,or they where unmarked graves,and any info on fallschirmjäger like the 9th FJ div as the fought around or on the heights im shure i read in my FJ books and lost many killed,?,thanks.

[Kim Sung]

Did you see any german graves,or they where not allowed to bury there dead here,or they where unmarked graves,and any info on fallschirmjäger like the 9th FJ div as the fought around or on the heights im shure i read in my FJ books and lost many killed,?,thanks.

I haven't seen any german grave there.

[Fallschirmjäger]

Thanks for that info Kim Sung.

[Musashi]

A satellite image of the graveyard in Kostrzyn:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=pl&q ... =addr&om=1

[boomschors]

Why is this Küstrin fortress so special? It is a fort from the 19e century.. Or was it used by the Germans as a strongpoint?