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Subject: [Leica] Hannover on a hot Saturday afternoon
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun Jun 11 08:15:20 2006
References: <448BF6FB.1000102@gmx.de>

Doug--

The tourist bureau should be paying you. A lovely place.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies

On Jun 11, 2006, at 6:56 AM, Douglas Sharp wrote:

> Be warned, quite a lot coming up - Glorious weather yesterday, and  
> it still is, took a walk around the centre of town and took a few  
> pictures of some of the "attractions"
>
> Starting at the Opera
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3961_edited_1   
> The figures around the top are Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller and co  
> (strange - they didn't have much to do with opera, but King George  
> was mad anyway), down Georgstrasse past the Holocaust Memorial  
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3964_edited_1  
> which always looks out of focus on pictures (it isn't)
> The sloping sides have the names of many Jewish residents of  
> Hannover and neighbouring towns who were deported to more or less  
> certain death in Riga, Auschwitz and Treblinka.
> The Deutsche Bank, parts of this portal turn up in Kurt Schwitters  
> "Merz" collages  http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/ 
> MG_3967_edited_1  Schwitters, born in Hannover, died in exile in  
> the UK, is now buried in a cemetary in the North West of Hannover.  
> The name Merz came from an inscription on another Hannoverian bank,  
> and is part of the word "Commerz" (meaning commerce).
> At the end of Georgstrasse, not far from Aegidientor Platz ( with  
> the Hiroshima Memorial church ruin - next time)  is the  
> Landesmuseum, everything is in there, Dinosaurs, paintings of  
> Prussians (it was the museum of the Prussian Provincfe of Hannover  
> after the Kings got kicked out) http://gallery.leica-users.org/New- 
> Old-Pictures/MG_3972_edited_1. Behind where I was standing to take  
> this shot is the Maschpark, this landscaped garden is one of my  
> favourite combinations of gardening and architecture, as can be  
> seen in the next four shots of the Rathaus, this one is called the  
> "New" Rathaus, Hannover has two, the old one is in the Altstadt
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3972_edited_1   
> There's nothing wrong with my lens, the building really is bent -  
> it was built on marshy ground on a platform of oak logs and it's  
> sinking a bit at both ends. http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old- 
> Pictures/MG_3975_edited_1  The interior of the green dome is unique  
> in having a lift which runs on rails up the inside of the curved
> dome, the floor of the lift is only level when you reach the  
> viewing platform at the top. In a couple of weeks the water in the  
> forground of this shot will be a carpet of water lilies - but then  
> the reflection has gone. http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old- 
> Pictures/MG_3988_edited_1 . The Ugly glass building on the right is  
> the new Regional Bank, http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old- 
> Pictures/MG_3990_edited_1 . Crossing the river, the Leine (Hannover  
> comes from Am Hohen Ufer, meaning on the higher river bank) you  
> reach the Wasserkunst,
> this used to be a timbered, water powered mill and pumping station,  
> very old and beautiful - it was pulled down in the mid-sixties.  
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3993_edited_1
> The Schloss is now the seat of the Parliament of Lower Saxony, the  
> church on the right is the immense red-brick gothic Marktkirche.  
> There's no pigeon guano on this church because a pair of Peregrine  
> Falcons took up residence in the tower some years ago.
> I'll comment on the following pictures when I've a bit more time
> Comments criticism and questions about Hannover are more than welcome
> cheers
> Douglas
>
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