Okay, this is getting tricky, because I realized I should have posted the photos in the reverse order because here, we are actually going up Mülheim’s Schloßstrasse backwards. So we are again looking west, but actually moving east “up” the street. This is actually a kind of iconic shot, because the fountain, the stone slabs and the black stone ball are a remnant of the original design of the pedestrian zone from the 1970s, before it was redone sometime in the 1990s. There are also potted trees around today, which were not there in 2004 when this photo was taken. Again, you can see a lot of history here – open cafés, Woolworth, Kaufhof and even two pharmacies almost opposite each other. I think one of the pharmacies is still there, but not much else – what a difference only nine years make…