Tag: Mannheim

The last stand

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This abandoned building is in the heart of the Mannheim quarter of Jungbusch. It’s near the old industrial harbour and the whole quarter is a mixture of run down, turn-of-the-last-century residential buildings, industrial buildings like warehouses and pre-war factories. At the same time there is construction work going on and new fashionable buildings have gone up, a mixture of offices and residences. One large block directly at the waterfront is the “Popakademie”, a private music school of national renown.

I don’t really understand the graffiti. It is against gentrification but I have no idea how the music school fits into this.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: All about buildings.

CFFC

Nations in Peace

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Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”

Thomas Huxley

This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).

Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.

Painted windows

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I’ve used a panaroma shot of this housing development before and was asked why there are no real windows on this side of the building. I don’t have an answer. But I like the building nevertheless, at least from the outside.

Linked to Monday Windows. For more window shots, pop over there.

Love on a hard concrete bench

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2020 love

For once a whole story with my Six Word Saturday photo.  I took this photo (and many others) in a not quite savoury part of Mannheim near the old harbour, an area bordering on the brink of gentrification.

While I was snapping away I heard a gruff voice in my back (please excuse the language, it was rather unsavoury, too): “Straighten your back and put your arse out!”  I turned round with clenched cheeks, unsure how I should react when I saw two burly, bearded men who could have easily posed for this sprayed graffiti and who were using an old bollard as a impromptu gym machine and urging each other on.

Double entendres everywhere.

Linked to Six Word Saturday where you can find more sixer with or without accompanying stories.