DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Landkreis: Nordwestmecklenburg

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• ru: Больтенхаген

The sea-side spa town Boltenhagen is located in the Klützer Winkel of the Boltenhagen bay (part of the Mecklenburg Bay) on the Baltic Sea coast of northwestern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The municipality has a population of about 1,500 (2005). In 1929 the designation Ostseebad (Baltic Sea spa) was added to the official name of the municipality.

The first 'bathing cart' was set up on the beach in 1803. Boltenhagen thus is considered the second-oldest seas-side resort place in Mecklenburg (after Heiligendamm, which offered bathing facilities as early as 1793) and the third-oldest on the German Baltic Sea coast. The first Hotel (the "Baltic") opened in 1838, the more fashionable "Großherzog von Mecklenburg" followed in 1845. The well-known German writer Ernst Reuter (1810–1874) was one of the regular guests in Boltenhagen. In 1872 a storm tide devastated many inns and guest houses. Unlike Heiligendamm, which catered more for the luxury tourists, Boltenhagen was a spa place mainly for middle-class tourists. Boltenhagen ermained a popular sea-side resort throughout the 20th century. After the re-unification of Germany in 1992, many more new hotels and inns were built and the old spa facilities were renovated. The old pier (290 m long), rebuilt in 1992, became a landmark of Boltenhagen. In 1998 Boltenhagen was officially recognized as a sea-side spa.

Other glasses in this collection show views from further places of which the official names include the designation Ostseebad (Baltic Sea spa):
• Ostseebad Binz
• Ostseebad Heringsdorf
• Ostseebad Insel Poel
• Ostseebad Kühlungsborn
• Ostseebad Laboe
• Ostseebad Sellin
• Ostseebad Wustrow
• Ostseeheilbad Zingst

[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltenhagen]