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Subject: [Leica] IMG: New gallery - a walk through a little known jewel of acity
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:20:48 +0200
References: <4EA9C567.6090608@gmx.de> <C78728C692774B6A83D0D51A901E5429@jimnichols>

Hi Jim,

there will be more - in colour - when I get around to 
calibrating my monitor (I think it's a bit off track, 
so I posted the shots in BW:-) )

Thanks for taking a peek

Douglas

On 27.10.2011 23:55, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Douglas,
>
> You are correct, that is really a jewel of a city.  
> Thanks for the tour.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Sharp" 
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> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 3:56 PM
> Subject: [Leica] IMG: New gallery - a walk through a 
> little known jewel of acity
>
>
>> 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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