A recent theme for me but I think it will develop over time and therefore deserves a full page.
For those who like these atmospheres, there is a European route of industrial culture, which allows you to discover many sites of our industrial history.
Hamburg, around the harbour
This post follows the one I wrote about the warehouse and trading post area of Hamburg https://wherever-it-is.com/2022/09/16/the-counter-district-kontorhausviertel-in-hamburg/ These two districts date from the end of the…
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Salt mines and slavery at Bonaire
A post that will cover both the present with active salt works on the island of Bonaire and the past with a testimony on the slavery…
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The counter district (Kontorhausviertel) in Hamburg
Hamburg’s maritime vocation goes back a long way and many districts are linked to this activity. One of these districts, the “comptoirs”, dates from the beginning…
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Rotterdam, sky scrappers, pop architecture and industrial culture
Too often neglected by tourists in favour of Amsterdam of course but also other destinations such as The Hague, Utrecht … Rotterdam is worth a stop…
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Harbours of Grece
To finish this Greek trilogy that started in Athens, some images of villages by the water, out of season. To start, south of Athens, one of…
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Lusitania, past and present of a coal mining region
There are many coal, or more precisely lignite, producing regions in Germany and one of its regions lies between Brandenburg and Saxony, both regions of the…
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When electricity was at its high in Berlin: AEG and Osram
The more I visit the city, the more I discover industrial buildings built to the glory of electricity, between the end of the 19th and the…
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Schöneweide – a center of the industrial revolution in Berlin
I recently returned to the Schöneweide district, which at the turn of the last century was the largest industrial centre in Berlin. A century of industrial…
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Typical of the DDR: Eisenhüttenstad
More than thirty years after the reunification, a large part of the architectural heritage of the GDR has disappeared, has been destroyed or completely rebuilt ……
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