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Halle – Riebeckplatz
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Station “Riebeckplatz” (north and west tracks)
Halle – Franckestraße
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(Obere) Franckestraße, Station “Am Leipziger Turm” und rundrum.
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The East German traffic mannekin is omnipresent. Most new traffic lights have it (again).
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Franckeplatz
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Station “Franckeplatz”
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Station “Glauchaer Platz”
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Wartburg car
Halle – Zentrum
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Rund ums mdr-Sendehaus.
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Hallmarkt (Salt market), Göbelbrunnen and Marienkirche (Western towers)
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Marienkirche (Eastern towers), unfortunately under repairs
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Market
Halle-Kröllwitz
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Burg Giebichenstein
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Station “Talstraße”
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Nostalgic traffic light (including bicycle)
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Fastfood box colored like the trams.
Halle – Rabeninsel/Pulverweide(n) and Südpark
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Full view of Urtica dioica
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Macro view of Galium aparine
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Macro view of a Helix pomatia
Halle-Neustadt
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Bruchsee
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Tatra T4D-C, refurbished 3rd generation (introduced around 2007)
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“Am Kleinen Teich”
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Bulldozed between fall 2007 and May 2008
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The typical garden-within-4-blocks
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Way up to the “Indianerberg”
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“Indianerberg” – reason for its name is a playground on top (not seen here – I did not bother to go that way)
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Fahrradständer – mal Ostdeutsch
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This is how the original non-refurbished blocks look like
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These lucky dudes have WiMAX-based Internet
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(Alte) Einkaufspassage Neustadt
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Am Gastronom
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For the elders
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“Taubenbrunnen”, it is even in operation today!
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The buildings' concrete already collapses by itself (“quick” concrete only holds for 40-50 years; this was built in the 1960s)
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Entrance to the “Tunnelbahnhof” (subterranean station)
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View from the station southwards and northwards. Built like an air raid shelter.
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“Morgens halb 10 in Deutschland...”
More places
Local time: 17:16. Distance ahead: 0.83 km
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Tatra T3/T4D tramcar at Riebeckplatz station
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Still lots of construction here
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Don't know what to call your street names? Just prepend “verlängerte” (enlonged) and...
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Hubertusplatz, “Heide” station
Merseburg, 2008-05-04
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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.
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Burgenlandbahn
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Traces of history
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Macro view of a <i>Pyrrhocoris apterus</i> (de: Gemeine Feuerwanze, en: Firebug)
Seems like it got too hot for this one
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Spring (Quelle) at Stadtpark Merseburg – still water though
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It really starts to flow here
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Remnants of a train bridge (no other rails anywhere near) – this bridge is stray for as long as 1987
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So this is the proof this track was abandoned long ago
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Once upon a time, a DDR Konsumladen was located here (up to perhaps 1994?) / Lindenstraße
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This tower also exists since at least mid-1980s, but I still do not know its original purpose
Merseburg
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Alberichstraße (built circa 1920) – removed in late 2007
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A bit of green here and there
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You still see the street lamps
Merseburg – Gotthardsteich
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Westside Gotthardsteich
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Chinese restaurant “Dynastie” – recommended
Merseburg – Zentrum
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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.)
