View of the former Küstrin fortress
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Something blue flies screeching in a circle. When it sits on a branch that lends wings and turns on the side, I recognize a beautiful collar parrot. Light blue belly, darker wings, the head bright turquoise blue, set off by a black strip. The orange -red beak brilliantly stands out, an amber -colored eye succeeds me.
A Tuesday in early March. The early spring sparkles sunny. My girlfriend and I are guests in the Märkisch-Oderland district, today we want to go swimming. What is there except that blocked hall in Strausberg or the dilapidated Bath in neighboring Frankfurt? Nothing. Google Maps sends us to Poland. We climb a bus in Lebus, which promptly takes a descent too much in the next roundabout. Travelist pensioners confirm our mistake. We are in the 968 that makes the big round via Mallnow and Seelow to Küstrin-Kietz. The driver lets us out, we punch back, when the 969, who goes over Manchnow, comes to Seelow.
Outside there is a lot of deer, a little green and a lot of sky. 40 minutes later we climb into Küstrin-Kietz out, run past the renovated cultural house and reach the renovated tracking system via overgrown track systems for the renovated Kietz train station. He was once a huge separation and later border station with 250 employees, after 1990 everything fell. Today it drives Lower barnimer railway From Berlin-Lichtenberg again to Kostrzyn Nad Odrą. We increase for the last four kilometers, cross the Oder and The former restricted arealet the Destroyed fortress along with the old town of Küstrins Lying on the right, on the left of the Polish Warthe bank behind allotments, a blue water slide and the building of the Swimming pool on.
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Anne Hahn is the author of novels and non -fiction and swims through the waters of the world for »ND«.
At the beautifully renovated train station we pass a winding Gleistunnel to the north and run for ten minutes through Küstrin rugged suburb to the bathroom, only a few months ago opened his gates. For a good six euros you can swim and splash around for two hours. Card payment, turnstile, changing room for everyone with plenty of cabins, showering by gender. Red and yellow stripes loosen up gray tile areas, the pictogram for “not running” is reminiscent of a crossed -out swastika. The orange-green hall is light and spacious, fat wooden clips carry the ceiling. Two rows of spectators flank six 25-meter tracks on which there is little going on at noon. After intensive training, we are lounging in the bubble corn and jacuzzi, the sauna opens at 4 p.m.
We have long been on our way home, amazed at the rush-hour at the Kostrzyn railway cross and explore the small, in 1973 Bird park. Rose heads, some nymph and two collar parents share the only aviary that already survived a rat attack and sabotage. While my girlfriend is studying a sign on the main street that protests against the deportation facility on the Oderinsel, the blue parlor whistles a song.