2/06/2008

Just Huge

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Location: Mannheim.

Visible here are the socalled "Neckar Skyscrapers", also called "Neckar Shore North Buildings". Three towers, each 30 levels, all built on a single base building about five levels high - with a large part of those used as parking garages. There's also a vocational school center along with
a public library in that building. No idea how many people live in there - rough estimate: around 5,000.

At the third level of the base building, a bridge connects across the Neckar to the Collini Center, which has another two similar towers - one residential (with 1,300 people living in there), the other slightly smaller one for office space.

Second Level

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Location: Mannheim-Handelshafen multi-level station. The "intermediate level" I talked about. The bridge above has the tram station on it. There's a street and a parking lot below this "intermediate level".

Tram Ride #2



Location: Ludwigshafen.

Riding tram line 12 from underground station Ludwigshafen City Hall to semi-underground station Hemshofstraße.

Tram Ride



Location: Ludwigshafen

Riding tram line 10 from Sternstraße to the underground tram station at Ludwigshafen Central Station

Weird statue

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Location: Worms. Google says it's a statue of Hagen from the old German Nibelungen saga, depicting him as he throws the Nibelungen treasure into the Rhine (...which is where the statue is). Erected in 1905. See also this link.

Old Stuff

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Location: Worms Cathedral. Built 1130 to 1181 - and that was the third cathedral in the same place, with the first one built some 500 years earlier.

Probably the most important church for the Christian-Protestant world, as this is where Luther officially split from the Catholic church.

Politics...


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Location: Mannheim-Feudenheim. I'm a bit too lazy to explain the connotation, Germans will understand it :3


And now for something completely different


Maultaschen
(about 2 lbs of them, in my family's serving form)

Yet Another Bridge

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Location: Mannheim-Feudenheim, shot from "Mulberry Island". It's actually a highway (B38a), not a bridge.

Depot

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Location: Tram depot, Edingen. Yes, i was sitting on the curb for this pic, hence the angle.