[Leica] New Gallery: Goslar - a wide-angle walk around the ancient city

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

The houses getting wider at the top was also a 
way to maximise floor area without squeezing out 
the streets. Everyone wanted to live as close as 
possible to the center of towns because most 
traffic was on foot and living outside the town 
walls was dangerous.

Thanks for the show, Douglas. I've been to Go?lar 
a couple of times. It's a prime example of a town 
that was wealthy long ago, and then fell off the 
economic map in later times, when other towns 
were booming and 'redevelopment' got rid of a lot 
of the older buildings. Now Go?lar is doing well 
again, but the old buildings are appreciated.

My father's parents, who lived in Hamburg often 
went to Go?lar for a short vacation. I have some 
photos my grandfather took in the 20's in Go?lar.



At 2:09 PM +0100 11/11/09, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>Thanks for browsing through the city Philippe,
>
>it really is a wonderful place (when the sun 
>shines), and well worth a visit. There was quite 
>a bit of "fiddling" on a few of them, I could 
>have done with a graduated grey filter to tone 
>down the light skies, but the grad filter in LR 
>seems to work quite well.
>
>There's a pretty nasty reason for the houses 
>getting wider at the top - the people used to 
>throw their "slops" (liquid, solid and stinking) 
>out of the windows, and this stopped the on the 
>floors people below getting a neckful of it - 
>yukk!
>
>Greetings from Teutonia
>Douglas
>
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