Tourism and transition in the military area of Baltijsk (Pillau) and Wislinskij Spit (Frische Nehrung), Kaliningrad oblast (Königsberg)

Baltijsk and the Wislinskij Spit as an example, very clearly shows the split into two extreme sides in the entire Kaliningrad region. At the end of the Second World War it appeared as a military pledge of the Soviet Union, dominated by military forces with civil developments only possible around the periphery. With the collapse of the Soviet Union the situation changed most drastically and there was suddenly no longer any security but an area for speculations instead. The civil population was not prepared for this and even after 10 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the collapse phenomena of the planned economy is helpless against this. Ideas for the future are being planned by both the civilian and military elite in this „empty“ space.