Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guten morgen Henning, :-) Yes, Goslar was a very rich place, and even rich well into the 1950s. The Rammelsberg mine operated by Preussag was still the largest and most productive lead and zinc mine in Germany (a significant amount of silver was an added extra that was separated out during the ore processing and smelting process). A Scandinavian company is currently drilling cores on geomagnetic anomalies revealed by TEM (Time domain ElectroMagnetic) surveying (a sort of ground radar or electromagnetic sounding - a very simplified explanation, after over 30 years in the exploration business, I could go on for hours about it :-) ) in a nearby valley to see if there are viable ore deposits that could warrant a revival of large-scale mining. http://scandinavian-highlands.com/index.php?id=1463 Thanks for the additional info on the houses, I hadn't heard that before. I suspect that the place has hardly changed since the 1920s. Sch?ne Gr??e aus Hannover Douglas Henning Wulff wrote: > 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 >>