나찌 잔재 거대 '프로라' 해변 리조트 분양 활기 PRORA, Nazi-Built Resort Beckons New Dwellers(VIDEO)

독일 루겐 섬 해안에 지어졌던 근로자 휴가 시설

총연장 4.5km 거대 리조트 시설

내년 여름까지 아파트로 개조

Prora view. source reiseleiter-ruegen.de

Investors are redeveloping Nazi-era buildings, shown in 2011, on the German Baltic Sea island of 

Rugen. Photo: STEFAN SAUER/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 

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발틱 해변에 지어진 독일 나치 정부의 대표적인 건축물이 호텔과 아파트로 탈바꿈해 인기를 얻고 있다. 월스트리트저널은 8일(현지시간) 나치의 야심 찬 건축 프로젝트인 프로라(Prora)에 따라 루겐 섬 해안에 지어졌던 근로자 휴가 시설이 호텔과 아파트로 변신하고 있다고 보도했다. 장장 4.5㎞에 이르는 이 건축물은 최대 2만 명을 수용하기 위해 나치 정부의 레저 조직인 '기쁨을 통한 힘'(Strength through joy)이 1936년 착공했다. 하지만, 1939년에 이용 계획이 보류됐으며 나치 패망 이후에는 동독 군인 숙소 등으로 이용되기도 했으나 독일 통일 이후 버려진 시설이 됐다. 이 건축물은 2004년 독일 정부가 민간 부동산 개발업자에게 분할 매각했고, 이후 민간 개발업자들이 부동산 붐을 타고 개발에 속도를 내고 있다. 2012년에 7000만 유로(약 764억 원)를 투자해 건축물 일부를 산 부동산회사 이리스게르트는 내년 여름까지 아파트로의 개조를 마칠 계획이다.  분양 실적 좋아…아파트 70% 팔려 이 회사의 판매 대표인 베른트 울프는 "70%의 아파트가 이미 팔렸다"고 말했다. 베를린에서 작가로 일하는 크리스타 무그는 지난해 31만 유로(약 3억4000만 원)를 주고 다른 아파트를 매입했다. 올가을에 이 아파트로 이사할 무그는 "폐허로 남아있던 건축물이 좋은 휴가용 아파트로 변신해서 너무 좋다"고 말했다. 나치시대의 상징인 이 건축물을 호텔이나 아파트로 변경해 이용하는 데 대해 곱지 않은 시선도 있다. 하지만 독일의 경기가 좋은데다 금리는 최저수준을 유지하고 있어 분양 실적은 좋은 편이다. 월스트리트저널은 이 건축물뿐 아니라 나치 시대의 상징물을 주거용 시설로 개조하는 작업이 다른 곳에서도 진행되고 있다고 전했다.  브레멘과 함부르크에서는 공습당한 벙커를 주택으로 바꾸는 일을 하고 있다. 뮌헨에서도 한 부동산 개발업자가 벙커 빌딩을 개조해 아파트 및 사무실로 변경하는 공사를 진행하고 있다.  연합뉴스

After decades of decay, the spot—originally purposed for 

vacationing—is being redeveloped

By Todd Buell  PRORA, Germany—On a 2.8-mile stretch of sundrenched coastland in this small seaside town stands the remains of what was once among the Nazis’ most ambitious construction projects: Prora. The sprawling complex of nearly identical buildings was envisioned as a working-class vacation spot for up to 20,000 people before the regime put the project on hold in 1939. Now, after decades of decay, the site operated by the Third Reich, the Soviets and the East Germans over the years is being converted into hotels and apartments. The developers’ bet: that thousands of vacationers will flock to the complex on the Baltic Sea island of Rugen, one of Germany’s most picturesque destinations. Christa Moog, a Berlin writer, last year paid €310,000 ($337,000) for an 820 square foot apartment. She plans to move in this fall. “I am happy to see that this building is being made into nice vacation apartments. It was always ruins,” said Ms. Moog, who also runs a literature-themed hotel in the leafy Berlin neighborhood of Friedenau. “The buildings were built in a dark, bad time. Now they are being transformed,” she said.  A Nazi Party magazine from 1939 shows an illustration of the Prora resort. Photo: Sammlung Sauer/DPA/Zuma Press .With Germany’s economy solid, the property market booming and interest rates near record lows, some German developers and investors are starting to look to architectural relics of the Third Reich for opportunities. From Prora’s massive resort to air-raid bunkers in Bremen and Munich, some abandoned Nazi-era buildings are finding new uses as living quarters.  The moves have sparked controversy. As the ravages of time are forcing Germans to decide what to do with the Nazis’ surviving architectural heritage, historians and developers are asking whether these vestiges are fit for commercial development, should be turned into places of remembrance, or should be left untouched. Some believe it is inappropriate to reclaim the Prora project, part of the Third Reich’s “strength through joy” program for promoting working-class holidays. “It was part of the system,” said Sabine Sakuth, a guide at the Prora Documentation Center, a local history museum. “It was one of the Nazis’ sharpest weapons,” she said, referring to “strength through joy.” .But the conditions for redevelopment are ripe. Germany’s property market has soared in recent years as lower interest rates make borrowing more affordable. Residential real-estate prices have increased by about 5% annually the past few years, after a decade and a half of stagnation, according to real-estate consultancy Bulwiengesa AG. Prora was to be a landmark of Nazi rule and architecture. All of the rooms were supposed to face the water. When its cornerstone was laid on May 2, 1936, Robert Ley, one of Hitler’s top associates, gave the main speech, which was broadcast on radio. The drab slabs later housed Soviet and then East German soldiers before being handed over to the German army following reunification in 1990. The army abandoned the site soon thereafter and decay began to set in. The government eventually sold the buildings off in blocks starting in 2004. ‘We simply don’t want the object to fall into the wrong hands.’  —Marlies Masche, a spokeswoman for the agency selling the property  .The German property firm Irisgerd is pouring more than €70 million into the block it purchased in 2012. It hopes to complete its conversion to apartments by mid-summer of next year. In all, more than 70% of the units have been sold, said Bernd Wolf, a sales representative. “The economic conditions are playing a decisive role for people,” said Ulrich Busch, an adviser for Prora Solitaire, which owns part of another block. “They want to invest for old age, and returns on [bank] deposits are at about zero.”  Christian Schierwater, a tax adviser from the German city of Celle, bought an apartment in Prora that he plans to rent out for part of the year. A tax benefit for investing in property under historical preservation protection, and a desire to get a place near the water, outweighed his initial misgivings about the building’s history. “We looked for something on the Baltic Sea, near the beach,” he said. “When you look around, there isn’t a lot of choice.” Other Nazi-era buildings also are faring well on today’s property market. In the cities of Bremen and Hamburg, an architectural firm has been working for more than a decade to transform old air-raid bunkers into residential housing.  .Claus Freudenberg, one of the architects involved, said he was not just making housing for the rich. “We have fully normal people as customers.”  In Munich, the property developer Euroboden has put €5 million into renovating a bunker building into four apartments and office space. Euroboden’s owner, Stefan Hoglmaier, said putting big windows into the over six-feet-thick walls showed “in the truest sense of the word” that Germany is now an open and democratic society. Some buildings have a harder time shaking their past. One of these is the Bogensee villa outside Berlin, once used as a getaway by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Although the city of Berlin has tried for many years to reinvent the property—as a school, a hotel and a clinic—it has failed to sell it.  The history is “a big problem,” said Marlies Masche, a spokeswoman for the agency selling the property. “We simply don’t want the object to fall into the wrong hands." http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-nazi-built-resort-beckons-new-dwellers-1428446322

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