[Leica] IMG: New gallery - a walk through a little known jewel of a city

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Douglas,
A beautiful place, a visual treat - but why is it so devoid of people?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> most people tend to drive straight past *Tangerm?nde* over one of the few
> bridges that cross the Elbe river (on the B188 East-West highway from 
> Berlin
> to Hannover) without noticing that it's there.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Tangermuende/
>
> The city, as its name infers, is at the point where the river Tanger joins
> the Elbe, and has been a city since the 12th century and also the seat of a
> the German emperor Karl IV. The opriginal castle was razed to the ground by
> the Swedes, but much of the medieval fortifications still survive - almost
> all of it is brickwork, and hardly any stone.
>
> Most of the city now dates from 1671, after a young woman by the name of
> Grete Minde burned the city down as revenge for her mistreatment - her name
> has gone down in German literature in a classic novel by Theodor Fontane
> published in 1879
>
> We always stop there for lunch or a coffee and a break from driving with a
> walk around the city.
>
> This ancient city is in the process of being brought back to its former
> glory after years of very limited investment under the communist regime of
> the GDR. As can be seen, some parts are still very much in need of
> redevelopment, but the work is in full swing throughout most of the city.
>
> The Schloss built on the foundations of the old castle is now a 4-star 
> hotel
> (with very reasonable prices), and some of the towers of the medieval 
> castle
> now contain hotel rooms - including the prison tower!!
>
> Although the pictures were shot on 3 separate visits (one of them very
> cloudy and dull), their order shows our usual route and our usual stops
> around the place.
>
> Well worth a visit if you are ever in the area.
>
> I'll be putting up some of the shots in colour when I get around to it.
>
> Hope you enjoy the visit
> Douglas
>
> BTW: the lady in the ?leather jacket is Frauke, my missus.
>
> Some of the shots with rather low contrast were shot with a Tamron zoom I
> picked up for 15 euros at the flea market in Berlin - it's not one of their
> best:-)
>
>
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