Vorpommern & Usedom (Germany)
Gutin / EDCG → Anklam / EDCA.
Leaving Rügen we reached Stralsund - and found something hillarious! As you can see, MSFS thinks that the Strelasund (the strait between Stralsund and Rügen) is completely frozen over … yeah that’s not quite the case. Anyways, you can see clearly the two most prominent churches of the city, which both have a unique model ingame: St. Nikolai to the right and St. Marien in the background.
After following the coast to the east we came across Wolgast. Here, the Peenebrücke connects the Island of Usedom with the mainland of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. A settlement of the Slavic Lutici in the early medieval age, Hologost was later germanized into Wolgast, becoming one of the two “gates to Usedom” and the capital of the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast from 1295 to 1625.
Imagine this - you want to showcase one of the few places in M/V you have ever been to and then there is a massive fog bank covering the entire island… yep, that is me. Still you can see the outlines of Heringsdorf on Usedom, one of the so called “Kaiserbäder”, which were resorts on Usedom’s northern coastline, which had a massive development boom during the Imperial Era of Germany (1871-1918).
Crossing over to the mainland again we found an example for a century-old friendship that saved the day long after the cause for it took place. This is Anklam, the second “gate to Usedom”. A Hanseatic City (or rather town), Anklam refused two times to join the Hanseatic wars against Denmark, which created an amicable relationship between the town and the Danish crown. This friendship saved it from ruin, when Russian forces wanted to burn it down in 1713, only relenting when the Danish king himself intervened on behalf of the citizens of Anklam.