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A WW2 anti aircraft cannon tower in the harbour in Bremen.

Contax G2, Planer 35 f8 1/2000th Agfa APX100 in Neofin Blue.
 
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Well captured. The original function of the building adds negitive semantic context to what is a striking piece of architecture.
 
Here is the front with the holes from what I think must have been a planes machine gun.

I'm using one of the new Macbook Pro notebooks with Photoshop CS2 and I have no clue how to create a coloured box so a black one has to do the job (my kingdom for Corel Draw). The rectangle indicates the crop with the bulletholes. Not as good as I hoped when I took the photo, have to try it again with a tele next week.
 
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Is the multi-arched top of the structure original? It looks out of place on such a utilitarian military installation. Also, is this a historic preservation effort, or is it still standing because the demolition costs would be enormous? Steel reinforced concrete structures such as this are designed to be resistant to external forces, and as such, are expensive to dismantle.
 
Interesting to note that something like this unusual building still exists.
Is it used (sure for other purposes) today? or is it abandoned?
Ahhh...same question as Dexdog about the arches.

Regards

Ernesto
 
Mark and Ernesto,

we have lots of bunkers left over from WW2, one reason is the indestructability and the other was civil defence during the cold war.

They are not totaly unused, often for storage and at least two of the smaller ones have been converted to houses.

The FLAK towers arches are examples for Nazi architecture to some degree and where used as embrasure for 8.8cm guns.
They must have been very effective as the harbour wasn`t hit much if at all. Most of the allied bombs hit the undefended housing areas. My mother has horrible stories to tell from the bomb which hit the bunker in which she was early 1945 and the one which exploded close to their house when they hid in the cellar in the end of 1944.

Bremen experienced a couple of airraids like that on Dresden at the end of the war, as did Hamburg. In both towns the ports and industrial areas weren`t hit as hard as the housing areas.
 
Volker:
Thank you for your explanation about the FLAK tower.
I really didn´t know that many of those buildings were still alive, and that they were used during cold war.

I´ve been three times in Hamburg for some days and never saw such buildings. Perhaps I didn´t notice them...

Best regards

Ernesto

PS: May I PM/Mail to you?
 
I'm not sure wether they had those in Hamburg, too. Hamburg is errected on somewhat instable and swampy ground which doesn't support heavy, or large, buildings.

Here in Bremen you won't see the bunkers as long as you leave the citycenter and even then you can easyly overlook most of them since they are overgrown now.

I know of two of those FLAK towers still in existence here, there may be more and I think about documenting some more of the bunkers, especialy those which have been converted into apartments.
 
Thanks again Volker. I didn´t know also about Hamburg´s area ground conditions. Design and construction of the city Schnellbahn (the underground part) was kind of a nightmare I guess. And yes, I never noticed too large (or tall) buildings.
Your´s is an interesting project, hope you good luck with it!

Regards

Ernesto
 
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