A recent trip to Germany with a pocketful of ancient
postcards produced a few comparisons of things past and present of which this
is one. Allied bombing and subsequent reconstruction has obliterated many of
the landmarks and street profiles in the Wuppertal area and this example was a
rare success – perhaps assisted by the fact that the postcard looks to be of
post-war origin. The location is on Tannenbergstrasse, just outside
Robert-Daum-Platz station on the much photographed Schwebebahn monorail. The
distant view appears much changed but the foreground buildings seem to have
survived the last half century or so unscathed. As for the Schwebebahn – it is
such a miraculous survivor from a distant age of engineering experimentation
that we shall return to it for a more detailed look.
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