Due to a slight case of the not-so-good personal mobility owed to a little hop off a wall in the dark.
Hope i'll be able to get out again within a couple weeks though ^^;
11/01/2008
10/28/2008
Train Station
For some reason, Heidelberg-Karlstor station always reminds me of some rural train station in Japan, especially since the renovation a couple years ago. Might be the roofs?10/19/2008
10/09/2008
9/29/2008
9/24/2008
Wet Construction
(click to enlarge)Current construction work on the Wieblingen weir, done with three barges and two ships from both sides.
Some Heidelberg University dorm buildings in the background.
Inviting?
(click to enlarge)New campus square at the Mannheim Vocational College, new buildings will open next month. With a view out towards the A656 highway and in the background the towers of the Neckarau power plant.
Takeoff
(click to enlarge)Cirrus Airlines 30-seater Do-328. The biggest aircraft that may takeoff or land at Mannheim City Airport, tailored exactly to the load limits and such of that class of airport.
Typical 70s
(click to enlarge)Back in the 70s, the cities in this region started building highways like this one between their suburbs. Nowadays, most are empty just like here. This was taken at 4:30 pm, start of the rush hour.
9/23/2008
Crossing
(click to enlarge)The metal-caged walkway over the Wieblingen locks serves as a regular shortcut across the Neckar from Neuenheimer Feld campus. Though i don't really like how you can see the river 20 ft below through the planking.
9/18/2008
The Hills #2
(click to enlarge)Same day as the other one, roughly same hills, taken from train @ 150 km/h.
Park #2
(click to enlarge)Unterer Luisenpark, Mannheim. Near bottom of pic is the entrance to the upper part of the Luisenpark, which costs like 5 € to enter >_>
9/11/2008
Entrance
(click to enlarge)... to the only underground part of Mannheim's tram network, the Dalberg-Tunnel.
Remains
(click to enlarge)A turntable bridge in Mannheim's port area. Obviously already in use before the tram line that ran across it was removed - sometime in the late 60s or so.
New Mall
(click to enlarge)They're building yet another mall in Ludwigshafen, the "Rhine Gallery". The same company building this, ECE, already owns one just off to the right a bit back. Oh, and there's another one in the background there. Not that anyone would voluntarily leave their money in Ludwigshafen. Right now, they're loosing 87% (!) of their consumer cashflow to neighboring Mannheim. Disastrous for a city of 167,000.
Ugliest Station
(click to enlarge)... in the region anyway. Neulußheim train station, built in 1985. At some point they gave up replacing the smashed windows, and instead just fit wooden boards in their place.
9/08/2008
Trains
(click to enlarge)Three Itino DMUs in Michelstadt. Nickname "Sardino", as the overcrowded trains on this route make people feel like sardines.
Side by Side
(click to enlarge)Neckar valley between Heidelberg and Neckargemünd. Double-track railway line next to a four-lane federal road. There also used to be a tram line in addition to that going through here until the mid-70s...
9/02/2008
Redundant
(click to enlarge)Typical older small-town train station. As also typical for these, no longer in use, and like most of them empty and devoid of any use today. A few hundred similar stations have been rented out successfully, either as residential buildings or housing restaurants or similar.
409m
(click to enlarge)Walldürn train station. As usual for older stations, with a sign marking the elevation of the station above sea level.
8/31/2008
Bone Stones
(click to enlarge)Standard 80s sidewalk in Germany, paved with Knochensteinen ("bone stones", due to their shape). Hand-laid, of course ^^;
The red-coloured ones to the right mark a bike lane.
Half-lit
(click to enlarge)Crass contrast to the last post. Collini-Center residential highrise in Mannheim.
Half-Timbered again
(click to enlarge)This time in Buchen in the Odenwald mountain range. The bottom stone part is actually the old city wall, with a real moat in front.
Alleyway
(click to enlarge)Small access into the old town of Buchen between two houses built right against the old city wall.
8/23/2008
At Night
(click to enlarge)Location: "Heidelberg-Pfaffengrund/Wieblingen" S-Bahn station. Train's going to Frankfurt.
8/11/2008
New and Shiny
(click to enlarge)To contrast with the "shoddy stations" a while ago, here's Heidelberg's Weststadt/Südstadt station.
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