An superb example of vernacular, or local, architecture, sits within Germany’s scenic Peene River Valley. Anklam is a picturesque community 112 miles due north from Berlin and not far from the Baltic coast.
Century after century, Anklam was rebuilt again and again on the basis of that local heritage. The town has been battered, occupied, and destroyed repeatedly by one devastating military conflict after another. Decades after the tradition of rebuilding was seemingly killed in the post-World War II era, Anklam is once again rising from the ashes.
