Warthe is in a very beautiful part of Northern Germany and is surrounded by hundreds of lakes. The school has 130 pupils aged from 8 to 12.
Joy Turner and Mike Jones from Hadley Junior visited in June 1998 and were treated to a very hospitable welcome from everyone we met.
The part we visited, the Uckermark about 70 miles north Berlin, is the former East Germany and is not well known in the West and certainly not over visited. Long may it remain so,because it is a beautiful, unspoilt and sparsley populated part of Modern Germany. We saw wild deer in abundance, storks nesting, as well as osprey and sea eagles on the stunning lakes.
We visited local sights as well as Berlin and were feted and treated like royalty everywhere we went. The highlights were eating fish we had never even heard of and for which there didn't appear to be any English translation ( and which also tasted good), visiting the site of the wall in Berlin and all the sights including a huge TV tower which had a lift ascending 300 m in 40 seconds, apoignant and memorable visit to Ravensbruck a former concentration camp, cycling on an amazing contraption on the railway line, visiting our wonderful partner school with such friendly and welcoming children and adults, tasting so much delicious food and the occasional drink, driving on the roads which take some getting used to and finally enjoying the wonderful German hospitality.
Very sadly we learnt that the school was due to close in July 1999 because of rationalisation in the State system but the school will take part until then, when a new partner school in Eberswalde will join us. The Head of Warthe, Ernest Hobom has secured another post in Eberswalde in a quite different school of 700 pupils in a large city environment.
The Project Max details
Photographs for scanning..the school, storks, people
Uckermark logo
We all hope to meet again in December 1998 in Krenglbach in Austria with Herbert Klepp and Monika Anzenberger.