The iconic East front of the Kaufhof, behind was just a shell of rubble.

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At this point, you were able to look right through the mostly demolished Kaufhof.

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The iconic East side of Mülheim’s Kaufhof was still mostly intact in Mid-December.

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The building with the distinct roof on the left is the Rieken-Haus, which was built in 1955 around the same time as the Kaufhof – and it’s not being demolished. But this shot from December 15 might be one of the last photos with the department store and the Rieken-Haus together.

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Multiple generations of the green Kaufhof logo had left their marks on the building…

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This was the second video I filmed of the swan’s nest – this was on Sunday, April 30, only one day before the nest was suddenly empty and abandoned. I was very lucky to have caught a brief glance of the eggs that time – there were only five left. There’s also the alternative Youtube upload as usual.

From the city side, the Kaufhof still looked intact at the beginning of December.

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I almost forgot that I filmed a lot of the swans in their nest – here’s the first of the two videos. As usual, the embedded version here is hosted on my own webspace, but you can also watch it on Youtube.

I was just here at this corner today, half a year after this photo and there’s already a new foundation in place and a few walls are beginning to appear. At the start of December, there was still a bit left.

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Only half a building left.

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