architecture

hitler’s 4km long hotel complex

built in 1936, this immense piece of third reich architecture is a complex known to locals on reugen island as ‘the colossus’. to most others it’s known as ‘prora’. (click on photos for bigger).

believed to be one of the widest building complexes in the world, it consists of 8 rectangular buildings, seperated by a small gap, situated in a line around the bay - the total length coming in at 4km. it was designed as a mass holiday resort by the nazis and the sheer scale of it meant 20,000 visitors could be accomodated simultaneously within it’s 10,000 bedrooms, however it was never actually used for that purpose due to the war. instead it was used as a military base.

more info on this incredible building here.

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