2/13/2008

Train station

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Location: Bammental (duh). Only part of the building not defaced by graffitti.

Above the river again

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Location: Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate.

Old thing

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Location: Lambrecht, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the "Palatinan Forest" mountains.

Notes: This building is the "Guilds' House" of Lambrecht, originally built in 1606/07, never damaged or destroyed. Owned by the city since 1952, and housing the city hall on the back side since 2006. This front side is primarily used for marriage ceremonies.

2/12/2008

Bergstraße

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Location: on the Bergstraße, near Hirschberg

2/11/2008

Bus Ride



Note: from some bus stop in Mannheim-Mallau through a boring little industrial/commercial area, then via the B38a highway to Neuostheim station near Mannheim's airport.

Sparkly

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Note: couple construction workers cutting apart the tram tracks near my house at night

Dusk Again

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Location: between Bobenheim and Klein-Niedesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate.

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.