Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information