Oberhausen - Rathaus (City Hall) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Oberhausen - Rathaus (City Hall) / Rutger van der Maar
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説明 | OberhausenThe old town hall was built in 1873/1874 on what later became Schwartzstrasse, but after just a few decades the three-story building no longer met the demands of the rapidly growing city. It took until the end of the 1920s before the new building was completed. In 1927, the head of the city's building construction department, Ludwig Freitag, presented the final design. Freitag was also responsible for the interior design of the building. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on October 15, 1928. The building was inaugurated on May 20, 1930 at a special meeting of the city council.The main front, which is around 100 meters wide and faces west, looks onto the Grillopark below, with which the town hall is connected by terraces and outside stairs. The style of the building can be classified between brick expressionism and “Neuen Bauen”. It is characterized by expressive contrasts from light natural stone to dark clinker; the composition of different buildings is typical of this time. The building achieves its special effect primarily through the tension between different building cubes, which have different heights and sometimes protrude or recede. The massive facade is further broken up by arcades on the south side and the high windows and the wide balcony of the council meeting room.________________________________________________Oberhausen is the 38th largest city in Germany and the sixth largest in the Ruhr region with a population of 211,000.Oberhausen was formed as a new municipality in 1862. A number of surrounding municipalities had to give up a piece of land for this. The municipality was named after the Oberhausen station on the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn, built in 1847, which in turn was named after Schloss Oberhausen, a castle on the Emscher, which was not on Oberhausen territory until 1909. Oberhausen, like most major cities in the Ruhr area, subsequently experienced rapid development thanks to coal mining and heavy industry. In 1874 it received city rights. After Alstaden an der Ruhr was incorporated into Oberhausen in 1910, the city also came to be located on the Ruhr. In 1929, the towns of Sterkrade and Osterfeld were also merged with Oberhausen to form the city of Oberhausen (Rheinland).The Ruhrchemie AG synthetic oil plant was a bombing target of the oil campaign of World War II, and the US forces reached the plant by 4 April 1945. In 1973, Thyssen AG employed 14,000 people in Oberhausen in the steel industry, but ten years later the number had fallen to 6,000.________________________________________________After visiting the Ruhr area three years ago, I did a revisit, since there was still so much to see. In less than six days I visited six cities, two museums, and I did some extensive car spotting by bicycle. I have hundreds of car spots to share and took photos of the historic or interesting buildings.The Ruhr area ('Ruhrgebiet') is named after the river that borders it to the south and is the largest urban area in Germany with over five million people. It is mostly known as a densely-populated industrial area. By 1850 there were almost 300 coal mines in operation in the Ruhr area. The coal was exported or processed in coking ovens into coke, used in blast furnaces, producing iron and steel. Because of the industrial significance, it had been a target from the start of the war, yet "the organized defences and the large amount of industrial pollutants produced a semi-permanent smog or industrial haze that hampered accurate bombing". During World War II, the industry and cities in the Ruhr area were heavily bombed. The combination of the lack of historic city centres, which were burned to ashes, (air) pollution, and urban decay has given the area and the cities a bad reputation.Source: Wikipedia |
撮影日 | 2023-09-07 13:02:19 |
撮影者 | Rutger van der Maar |
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カメラ | Canon PowerShot G10 , Canon |
露出 | 0.006 sec (1/160) |
開放F値 | f/4.0 |
焦点距離 | 15123.28767 dpi |