The Syringe
The syringe-like building in the background is a hotel and residential high-rise in Augsburg's Antonsviertel district called Hotelturm. It was built between 1971 and 1972 and is the highest building in the Augsburg area measuring 115 m (167 m including the antenna mast, from which several VHF radio channels are transmitted).
In the foreground you can see Gögginger Straße with the BLACK LOTUS cocktail bar in the low, colorful building. From the mid-1960s to 1972, this location was home to the legendary beat and rock club BIG APPLE, which was usually just called "Apfel".
One of the disc jockeys there was the no less legendary Rudi Schäble, for many the best disc jockey the world has ever seen. During the day, customers of the renowned Durner record store near the town hall benefited from his enormous expertise. Rudi was also the first celebrity in Augsburg to openly show his homosexuality. The criminalization of homosexual acts was just about to be abolished at the end of the 1960s.
In later years, it was clear to anyone with a sense of smell that cannabis products were constantly being smoked in the Apple. That didn't bother me, as I liked to have a puff or two myself from time to time. Nobody in my circle of acquaintances took hard drugs, so I only know about what happened in connection with hard drugs in the Apfel from hearsay and the newspapers: syringes were found in the toilets during raids, and there were probably also drug-related deaths. In any case, the club was closed in 1972 because of too many drug offenses.
After the construction of the "Hotelturm" with its antenna mast, many people felt reminded of the syringes that had been found in the Apple toilets.
The Syringe
The syringe-like building in the background is a hotel and residential high-rise in Augsburg's Antonsviertel district called Hotelturm. It was built between 1971 and 1972 and is the highest building in the Augsburg area measuring 115 m (167 m including the antenna mast, from which several VHF radio channels are transmitted).
In the foreground you can see Gögginger Straße with the BLACK LOTUS cocktail bar in the low, colorful building. From the mid-1960s to 1972, this location was home to the legendary beat and rock club BIG APPLE, which was usually just called "Apfel".
One of the disc jockeys there was the no less legendary Rudi Schäble, for many the best disc jockey the world has ever seen. During the day, customers of the renowned Durner record store near the town hall benefited from his enormous expertise. Rudi was also the first celebrity in Augsburg to openly show his homosexuality. The criminalization of homosexual acts was just about to be abolished at the end of the 1960s.
In later years, it was clear to anyone with a sense of smell that cannabis products were constantly being smoked in the Apple. That didn't bother me, as I liked to have a puff or two myself from time to time. Nobody in my circle of acquaintances took hard drugs, so I only know about what happened in connection with hard drugs in the Apfel from hearsay and the newspapers: syringes were found in the toilets during raids, and there were probably also drug-related deaths. In any case, the club was closed in 1972 because of too many drug offenses.
After the construction of the "Hotelturm" with its antenna mast, many people felt reminded of the syringes that had been found in the Apple toilets.