In Pobierowo, right next to the picturesque beach, there is an old shack. It is a former German summer house, built around 1930. However, it is not an ordinary dilapidated villa. According to local legend, it was the summer refuge of Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's concubine. According to many reports, Braun often visited Pobierowo, and the property was closely guarded by troops of German soldiers.
Was that really the case? There may be no clear evidence, but in Pobierowo itself, few people doubt that the abandoned villa has a dark past.
We went to the place. The villa is located in an extremely attractive place. It is surrounded by a forest, there is a cliff and a beach nearby, and a few dozen meters away the largest Polish hotel is being built.
The problem is that after the war, the villa was abandoned and never returned to its former glory. However, it still attracts crowds of curious tourists. – A beautiful place, but a total wasteland – we hear from a couple who went there.
The first thing tourists notice are the inscriptions on the hovel. “Ewka hasn't lived here for a long time”, “I have a better house in Argentina” – these are just some of them.
One of the inscriptions on the old villa
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A villa worth over four million
The announcement regarding the sale of the villa has been available on a popular website for some time. The price is PLN 4.25 million. A lot for a hovel, but plots on the Baltic Sea are generally not cheap.
As we read in the advertisement on the real estate-online portal, the villa itself has an area of 120 square meters, but the plot is 458 square meters.
“An object for a collector with a vision. This is not an ordinary property. It is a symbol of an era, an element of history that cannot be repeated,” we read in the advertisement.
Entrepreneurs from Pobierowo with whom we talked about the facility admit that the price for a plot in this place is not very high. The problem, of course, would be the costs of renovating the villa itself and building access. “It probably wouldn't end with just a few million,” one of our interlocutors tells us. — The history of the building itself may attract tourists, but it may also scare them, a local entrepreneur tells us. He adds that the impact of the hotel being built next door may be similar. On the one hand, it may attract people to the old villa, but it is possible that such a gigantic facility will simply absorb all the tourist traffic in the area.
A house with a dark history
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This is what the descent to the beach from the plot looks like
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So it may turn out that a ruin in a beautiful area, but with a dark history, will wait a while for a lucky buyer..
Author: Mateusz Madejski, journalist of Business Insider Polska
