Archive 21. November 2013

City Views #81: Leineweberstrasse I


Mülheim’s Leineweberstrasse connects the Kaiserplatz with the Berliner Platz and ends at the Schloßbrücke – it’s only about 600 meters long, but one of the busiest streets of the inner city. This is the view West from the Kaiserplatz crossing – you can’t drive with your car in this direction because the street is one-way from West to East to make way for the tramway and the buses, which run both ways. The trees have only been planted about fifteen or twenty years ago and have improved the look of the street considerably, but the road looks pretty beat up here – I think that there might even be some of the original cobbles left between the rails. The Leineweberstrasse (literally Cloth Weaver’s Street) of course got its name from one of the local historical industries.

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Ready for next Year?


Some leaves on one of the little rose bushes, looking like it’s already spring!

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Balcony Flowers #178


The Black-Eyed Susan was hiding all summer and then finally bloomed at the beginning of October.

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City Views #80: The Creek under the City


This is not a sewer, but Mülheim’s Rumbach, a creek originating in the east in our neighbour city Essen, running underground right through the inner city before it enters the Ruhr. Back in 2008 when I took this photo just about 200 meters from where I live, it was discovered that the traffic on the street had damaged the underground tube and it had to be repaired by actually digging it up. Before, I had no idea that the creek was flowing only about two or three meters under the surface! In the near future, kilometers of underground brick work will have to be heavily renovated, which will also mean tearing up a lot of street. The Rumbach got its name not from something alcoholic, but because it used to rumble through the city when there were floods. Today it’s only a small creek even in the east of Mülheim where it runs overground, but it was actually one of the reasons the city got its name: there were a lot of mills at its banks in the 18th and 19th century.

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