Date(s): June 2006. Photos by aymar55@yahoo.com. 1 - 52 of 52 Total. 3927 Visits.
1 Magdeburg Ernst Thälmann, still going strong. The clenched fist one of the better known greeting rituals at the time. Standing in front of it feels strange.
2 Magdeburg Apartment building, fairly representative. Clear break with pre war housing.
3 Magdeburg inner city wind turbine (and giants roamed the earth)
4 Magdeburg Inner city wind turbine. Not sure how the thing will stay in the wind without a correcting fantail.
11 Magdeburg, Fermersleben Derelict water tower. Purpose of the inner chimney not completely clear. Did the thing in its time also moonlight as a hookah for passing giants. Frost proofing a possible answer.
12 Magdeburg, Fermersleben Bay window. The marquee will also offer some protection from falling stucco debris.
13 Magdeburg, Fermersleben ready for shipment
14 Magdeburg, Fermersleben
15 Magdeburg, Fermersleben
16 Magdeburg, Fermersleben information age
17 Magdeburg, Fermersleben
18 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
19 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
20 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke Faded letters "Industriewaren". Belaboring the obvious: The small street shops did not fare too well. Not necessarily a recent development.
21 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
22 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
23 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
24 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke squatter proof
25 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
26 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
27 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
28 Magdeburg, Fermersleben, Alt Salbke nearly a ruderal site
29 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke And who needs round advertising pillars when you have all that free storefront space you want. Embarras du choix.
30 Fermersleben. Alt-Salbke
31 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
32 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
33 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
34 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke Looks like pigeons with some spliced in Lundi genes. Somewhat peculiar.
35 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke the phantom of the opera
36 Fermersleben, Alt-Salbke
37 Fermersleben, Alt Salbke
38 Buckauer cemetery skip view
39 Buckauer cemetery poppies without a purpose
40 Buckauer cemetery pale yellow fringe of Alchemilla
41 Magdeburg, poh-nikbar There are few recent graves. Various obvious reasons.
42 Magdeburg, poh-nikbar Most of 19th century gravestones come with vernacular 'cheatsheets'. Usually on the backside.
43 Magdeburg, poh-nikbar propped up billboard section
44 Magdeburg, poh-nikbar The two inscriptions of this War Memorial differ somewhat. Nothing exaggerated, just no literal, Rosetta Stone type translation.
45 Magdeburg
46 Magdeburg, at-the-banks-of-the-Elbe River barges still conspicuous by absence. - Ulbricht: beware of the stranglehold of foreign river estuaries (Hanseatic Hamburg). Rostock the only remaining option. Golden age of trucking.
47 Magdeburg, at-the-banks-of-the-Elbe
48 Magdeburg, at-the-banks-of-the-Elbe A polygonum
49 Magdeburg, Cathedral allez hop
50 Magdeburg, Cathedral The West Portal of the scaffolded Cathedral would make a great motive at the right time of the day.
51 Magdeburg, Cathedral sangria, never again. - The grain of the sedimental stone in the rear shows that the picture has been rotated. (Gargoyles usually do not work too well as Artesian wells. Not enough waterhead.) The folds in the gown make this however the original position. Could be that the model just went on strike. I am not going to play sloth for 10 hours, find another panda.
52 Magdeburg, Unser Lieben Frauen The monastery, Romananic blueprint, looks older than the adjacent Cathedral. Tombs of the Salic Emperors however located in the latter. Denouement: The actual Cathedral is a second generation building. The tombs were just inherited.
