Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Hamburg a century ago

Rathaus (Town Hall)
Börse (stock exchange)
bridge over the Elbe
Fährhaus (ferry house)
Fleet Deichstrasse

Fleet Eimersbrücke, Katharine Church
Hansahafen
Holländische Brook
 Brook bridge

Jungfernsteig
 Jungfernsteig with Alster Pavillion
 Lagerhäuser (store houses)
Landungsbrücke and Hafen
Ehrenhof of the Town Hall
St Pauli Spielbudenplatz
Steckelhornfleth
Vorsetzen
Lombardsbrücke


Ferry house with station of the Hochbahn = elevated railway

Hamburg was the other famous city on the Elbe River destroyed in WW2 and substantially rebuilt after it.  These pictures from about 100 years ago show what it and its harbour environment used to look like.

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