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Halle – Riebeckplatz




Station “Riebeckplatz” (north and west tracks)


Halle – Franckestraße


(Obere) Franckestraße, Station “Am Leipziger Turm” und rundrum.



The East German traffic mannekin is omnipresent. Most new traffic lights have it (again).



Franckeplatz



Station “Franckeplatz”





Station “Glauchaer Platz”



Wartburg car


Halle – Zentrum


Viele Brücken.



Rund ums mdr-Sendehaus.





Hallmarkt (Salt market), Göbelbrunnen and Marienkirche (Western towers)



Marienkirche (Eastern towers), unfortunately under repairs



Market


Halle-Kröllwitz


Burg Giebichenstein





Station “Talstraße”





Nostalgic traffic light (including bicycle)





Station “Kröllwitz”



Fastfood box colored like the trams.


Halle – Rabeninsel/Pulverweide(n) and Südpark




Full view of Urtica dioica





Macro view of Galium aparine



Macro view of a Helix pomatia



Südpark


Halle-Neustadt


Bruchsee





Tatra T4D-C, refurbished 3rd generation (introduced around 2007)





“Am Kleinen Teich”



Bulldozed between fall 2007 and May 2008





The typical garden-within-4-blocks





Way up to the “Indianerberg”



“Indianerberg” – reason for its name is a playground on top (not seen here – I did not bother to go that way)



Fahrradständer – mal Ostdeutsch



This is how the original non-refurbished blocks look like



These lucky dudes have WiMAX-based Internet



(Alte) Einkaufspassage Neustadt



Am Gastronom



For the elders



“Taubenbrunnen”, it is even in operation today!



The buildings' concrete already collapses by itself (“quick” concrete only holds for 40-50 years; this was built in the 1960s)



Entrance to the “Tunnelbahnhof” (subterranean station)



View from the station southwards and northwards. Built like an air raid shelter.



“Morgens halb 10 in Deutschland...”


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Local time: 17:16. Distance ahead: 0.83 km


Tatra T3/T4D tramcar at Riebeckplatz station



Still lots of construction here



Don't know what to call your street names? Just prepend “verlängerte” (enlonged) and...



Hubertusplatz, “Heide” station


Merseburg, 2008-05-04


Near the Northern Gardens. No 10 years ago this was all farm land. [de] Bei den Gärten (am Stadion). Vor nicht mal 10 Jahren war das alles noch Farmland.





Burgenlandbahn



Traces of history



Macro view of a <i>Pyrrhocoris apterus</i> (de: Gemeine Feuerwanze, en: Firebug)



Seems like it got too hot for this one



Spring (Quelle) at Stadtpark Merseburg – still water though



It really starts to flow here



Remnants of a train bridge (no other rails anywhere near) – this bridge is stray for as long as 1987





So this is the proof this track was abandoned long ago





Once upon a time, a DDR Konsumladen was located here (up to perhaps 1994?) / Lindenstraße



This tower also exists since at least mid-1980s, but I still do not know its original purpose




Merseburg


Alberichstraße (built circa 1920) – removed in late 2007



A bit of green here and there



You still see the street lamps









Thomas-Münzer-Park



Klobikauer Straße


Merseburg – Gotthardsteich


Westside Gotthardsteich









Chinese restaurant “Dynastie” – recommended


Merseburg – Zentrum




This place was commonly called “Hölle” (Hell) and I seem to remember even the station had this name – until they later changed it to “Marienstraße”. (As of 2011: it's just “Zentrum” now.)