Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas, everyone – this is a very special photo from our archives which I post every year and that has been used as a Christmas card lots of times in our family: it was originally taken by my mother Angela in 1962 on Mülheim’s Kirchenhügel, the church district in the inner city. She won a photography contest with it and today it is of real historical significance because this photo cannot be taken from this perspective anymore, although most of the houses still exist. There are many copies and prints of this photo, but a couple of years ago I found the original again and carefully scanned and restored it – we’re posting it every year now and it’s also a tribute to my mother, who sadly passed away three years ago.

One final look at the beginning of the railway viaduct as the last photo of this series.

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At the start of the former railway viaduct, there’s still an old signal left.

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A long view back at the renovated railway bridge with the television tower in the background.

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Looking along the new railway viaduct towards the inner city.

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From the railway viaduct leading to the bridge, you get a great view of Mülheim’s City Hall.

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Even in the early 2000s, trains were still driving over here. Now we can walk and cycle on it!

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Mülheim’s old railway bridge, now all new and shiny!

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Mülheim’s Schloßbrücke from the old railway bridge with the Stadthalle hiding behind the greenery.

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Looking North from Mülheim’s old railway bridge you can see the steel factory called the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Hütte, where steel has been manufactured since the mid-1800s.

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