Cathedral of Industry - The Textile Mill

Since the HDR photos are always the first pictures that I process, I continue the review of our tour with the fifth location - the textile mill.
The building is one of the largest factories from Germany's "Gründerzeit", a period in the second half of the 19th century when many industrial companies were founded.
It was built in 1876, and at its peak employed more than 5.000 people.
Parts of the buildings have been demolished, others are still in use, but no more information about the past and current usage here but in the following posts about this object...
For now, I'll leave you to the pictures...

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Order of St. John - The Sanatorium in the Mountains

Our short vacation took us to more than one location, but this was one of the most impressing.
In the late 1890's, the German Order of St. John decided to start building a sanatorium for lung diseases.
The southern slope of a summit in the Harz Mountains was chosen as a building site and in 1902, the first patients were admitted.
The building was massive. The walls were built of granite three stories high, and next to the comfortable rooms, the patients had a conservatory, a library and a variety of lounges and day rooms at their disposal.

I will tell you more about the history of the sanatorium in the upcoming posts, but for now, I'll start with the HDR photos I took there.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Revisit | Revisit 2 | Revisit 3

Soon to be Demolished - Abandoned Residence

A fellow user from the lost-places-board that I am a moderator in, came up with this little gem. It is a residential, mansion-like house in a little village in northern Germany.
I couldn't find anything about the history of the house.
From the looks of it, it was built sometime between 1850 and 1900. The newest newspapers and correnspondence that I found inside dated back to 2005.
The village used to be home to a family of master builders from the late 1600s until the 1800s. Who knows, maybe the house we visited was built by them...

The interior was very run-down, lots of junk lying around, so there really wasn't much opportunity for wide shots, but some of the details were prettey neat.