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  1. Taken on Sunday May 4th, 2008 at 11:16
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"Wir haben hie kein bleibende Statt" 


There's something special about this architecture, notice the three doors? The ones left and right lead directly to the ground (first) floor flats, spanning two windows like one seen to the left and right, couldn't imagine they have more than 10 - 12qm². The middle door is the entrance to the staircase, leading to the first (second) floor, the attic and cellar, so what appears to be three different entrances is indeed one house, hosting eight flats -- at least. Consider each flat or better room to be crammed with 8 to 12 persons.

Well, not any more: Please have a look here.

Within all that misery there was a guy born in May 1833 you might have heard of -- well, or maybe not -- quite near to that place in midst all the dirt, poverty and misery; his name: Johannes Brahms ....

"Wie haben hie kein bleibende Statt" ...

... "Tod wo ist dein Stachel, Tod wo ist dein Sieg?" ...

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Alan says:
1893-Gaengev-Aug-Schacht
Photo taken 1893 by August Schacht
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )
The Bobster says:
Very good composition here, all the squares, rectangles, boxes at right angles, with only two small instances of curved lines provided by the bicycle wheels in the lower corners - and I especially like to tonal variation, the rich variety of gradations of light and dark. In all, I'd have to call this masterly, and i wish I could his the "fave" putton more than once.
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )
Alan replies:
Thanks Bob, didn't consider the photo to be so important but the story behind ... was actually a non-keeper, and I'm still not completely satisfied by it, told you about my difficulty to upload photos ... ;-)

To get the story please look here: here
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