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Symbol für Krieg und Teilung.
Die Dömitzer Eisenbahnbrücke wurde von 1871 bis 1873 erbaut. Weil sich hierdurch die Verteidigungslinien von Dömitz, der damals stärksten mecklenburgischen Landfestung, zum preußischen Dannenberg öffneten, wurde die Brücke aus militärischen Gründen auf beiden Ufern der Elbe mit starken Bollwerken befestigt. Ein drehbarer Brückenteil sollte nicht nur der Schifffahrt die Passage erleichtern, sondern notfalls auch die Eisenbahnlinie unterbrechen können.
Im April 1945 wurde die Brücke bei einem alliierten Luftangriff zerstört. Zwar verkehrten nach dem Krieg zwischen Wittenberge und Dömitz wieder kurzfristig Züge, 1947 kam es jedoch endgültig zur Stilllegung der Strecke. So wurde die Brückenruine zum weithin sichtbaren Symbol für Krieg und Teilung.
Den Text habe ich von einer Info-Tafel übernommen, die ganz in der Nähe an einem Parkplatz stand.
Unter dem rechten Brückenbogen die Dömitzer Autoelbbrücke im Zuge der Bundesstraße 191.
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Symbol of war and division.
The Dömitz railway bridge was built from 1871 to 1873. Because this opened the defense lines from Dömitz, the strongest Mecklenburg country fortress at the time, to the Prussian Dannenberg, the bridge was fortified with strong bulwarks on both banks of the Elbe for military reasons. A rotating part of the bridge should not only make the passage easier for shipping, but should also be able to interrupt the railway line if necessary.
In April 1945 the bridge was destroyed in an Allied air raid. Although trains ran again briefly between Wittenberge and Dömitz after the war, the line was finally closed in 1947. The ruins of the bridge became a symbol of war and division that can be seen from afar.
Under the right arch of the bridge, the Dömitzer Autoelbbrücke on the federal road 191.
I took the text from an information board that was in a parking lot nearby.
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At Tangen in Kristiansand, a new district with 43,000 m2 of housing and 33,000 m2 of business / school is under development. The area is close to the center, surrounded by water, with Otra to the east and the sea to the south and west.
The stench from the construction pit on Tangen stings in the nose. The half-rotten, penetrating smell is a testimony to the sins of the past.
- "We pull it on Tangen", was the tone of the review in my childhood. Should one get rid of something, it was just a matter of pulling it on Tangen, says Harald Sødal (born 1938).
Many have slipped out after dark and thrown away old bicycles and refrigerators and things that were no longer usable. This is how the landfill grew imperceptibly on Tangen from year to year.
The seaweed quickly became the industrial area of Kristiansand, and the filling started with the brickworks operation from 1783. The plant was built on a bulwark partly on land, partly on the skerries outside, which was so shallow that the hired workers from Flensburg in Germany could wade over. The area between the skerries and land was eventually filled with brick and sand.
Tangen housed many businesses, such as windmills and pottery, and has always been an area for military activities. In 1657, a block house with ten cannons was built, hence the name Blokkhusgata, and shipbuilding continued at "Kongens Værft" in the extension of Østre Strandgate. In more modern times, Sørlandet's first seaport with seaplanes was established on the marine site, where Aquarama is located today.
In 1855 came the biggest polluter of them all, the gas plant, which has left quantities of heavy metals in the ground where the KEV building was erected after the gas power plant was shut down in 1957.
Tangen was never intended as a residential area, even though it became the residence of the workers at the various workplaces. In the census from 1801, there were seven residential houses on Tangen, which accommodated a total of 60 people; potters, stonemasons, sawmills, sailors and bricklayers with wives, children, lodgers and servants. As a curiosity, we can mention that of the nine married women on Tangen in 1801, five were older than their husbands, two of them were 11 years older.
The name Lortetangen arose partly as a result of Kvadraturen literally swimming in feces. The "night man" was called the dot timber, the one who emptied the city's dowries and drove the trickling, smelly contents to piers along the sea by horse and leaky cart. One of the piers was on Tangen, where today's Tangen upper secondary school is located. From the pier, the urine was drained into the river, while the solid contents were left behind and sold as fertilizer to farmers on Tveit, who collected it in open shacks.
When you drive from Yellowstone to Grand Teton National Park along Highway 89, you will be greeted by this view as you enter the park. It was particularly lovely on this day. The water on Lake Jackson was smooth as glass and a bulwark of clouds draped over the Tetons. Looking at this picture today, I can still remember the feeling of awe that I experienced then.
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The Venetian harbour of Chania was built between 1320 and 1356. The harbour was used for commerce and also to control the Sea of Crete against pirates.
The Venetian harbour had room for 40 galleys, but it constantly silted up and was never very deep, so it kept having to be dredged, a difficult job with the equipment of the time.
On its north side the harbour is protected by a breakwater. Near the middle of this is a small bulwark like a gun emplacement and the tiny chapel of St Nicholas. This was where the Venetians and Turks executed condemned prisoners.
The Firkas Fortress at the harbour entrance and the St Nicholas bastion in the middle of the breakwater defended the harbour from raiders.
Today, the Venetian harbour offers moorage for fishing boats and other small craft, while the commercial and passenger port of Chania is seven kilometres to the east, in Souda Bay.
The lighthouse is a distinctive feature of the harbour. It was built at the harbour entrance by the Venetians and restored in its present form by the Egyptians (1830-1840). The lighthouse of the Venetian harbour of Chania always fascinates visitors and is one of the most-photographed monuments in Crete.
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Dante strives for everlasting peace within her lands. The promise of all Dragon hatchlings continues to hold fast awareness that our waters, land and skies are forever protected. Dare not loop toward battle at us as your conflict will encounter clashes of great defeat. Vanquish those thoughts before your eyes outwit your mind. Just know we rest well and our strength nuzzles within each swinging branch, Continued
St Aubin's Fort was developed on a rocky islet off the coast at the western end of St Aubin's Bay in Jersey.
Ships unloading their cargo into carts on the beach at St Aubin were vulnerable to attack by pirates coming into the bay. This was a particular problem in the 16th century, when pirate vessels from Brittany and Belgium roamed the Channel and sailed into island waters looking for easy prey. A bulwark (earth work) with two guns was constructed on shore, giving the area the name, Bulwarks, it still has today, and then a tower was constructed on the offshore rocky islet to house four more gunners.
A century later, in the English Civil War, the Parliamentarians turned it into a stronger fortress, by building a bulwark on it, and when the Royalists regained possession they replaced this with granite ramparts and added a storey to the tower. In the 18th century, and again in the 19th, the fort was rebuilt twice, but in peaceful Victorian times it was let as a summer residence. In the Second World War the Germans strengthened the fort with turret guns and concrete casemates.
This description incorporates text from Jerripedia, a website dedicated to the history of Jersey.
Le BAP Union est le premier navire école construit spécialement pour la Marine péruvienne.
The BAP Union is the first school ship built specifically for the Peruvian Navy.
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Vaig trobar una mica per casualitat aquest punt de vista sobre Cardona, potser el millor de tots, ja que des d'aquí puc agafar tant el castell com l'església parroquial gòtica de Sant Miquel.
El castell de Cardona és un dels més importants de la historia de Catalunya, pel seus vincles amb els vescomtes de Cardona, el control de les mines de sal, i els setges borbonics durant la guerra de Successió, notablement el de 1711 i el de 1713-1714, on només es rendí després de la caiguda de Barcelona.
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I found the most interesting viewpoint of the old town of Cardona and it's mighty castle.
It's one of the key fortresses in Catalonia, with a lot of history in medieval and modern times, most notably it's control of the salt mines and the borbonic sieges of 1711 and 1713-1714 during the War of the Spanish Succession, where it was the last standing spot of Catalan resistance, only surrendering a week after the fall of Barcelona.
9th May 2016 - 2 x Foxhound protected patrol vehicles sit on the cruise liner terminal in Liverpool waiting to be driven on board the Albion class assault ship HMS Bulwark.
Sorry about the editing, but I was facing the sun for this perspective and it was the only way to solve the burnt out section in post processing. Should I have cloned out the flood light though?
Edit: Image replaced without the floodlight......
The escarpment of the Tweed Range forms the western bulwark of the Tweed Valley. In the centre of the Tweed drainage basin is Wollumbin/Mt Warning enclosed by its ring dykes. As the onshore air rises up the escarpment clouds form often creating a shroud over the forests on the range. But when the clouds are light, shaft of sunlight from the afternoon sun break through and illuminate pieces of natures sculpture.
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Tilbury Fort, also known historically as the Thermitage Bulwark and the West Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England.
The upper Paine River flows past a giant rock bulwark, forming the Paine Cascades. Snow-covered Cerro Almirante Nieto and the Torres del Paine granite spires are in the background with storm clouds. In the mid distance red fall colours draw the eye to the foothills. Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia.
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Leaning haphazardly against each other, this rock formation towers over the Wadi Rum visitor centre. It proceeds to a gradual peak with the highest pillar at its front. The clear, rounded shapes of the pillars standing side-by-side allowed it to inherit its name. Because of it shapes, this mountain look like many things. A collection of lopsided pillars, a procession of figures fanned out behind their leader, the bulwark of a great ship sailing through an ocean of sand. The modern name is taken from TE Lawrence’s memoir of his time in the desert. Though only five of these pillars are immediately visible, the other two are around the side. It is possible to walk around the formation but the best view is from a distance near the visitor centre. The original Arabic name is Jebel al-Mazmar, which means “The Mountain of the Plague.”
This site is one of the most amazing hiking spots in the area. The trail is one of stark contrasts: on one side, flat sands spread long distances, the very picture of the dry, yellow desert of the imagination in summer. In winter and spring, it is scattered with low grasses and bushes that animals come to graze on. Keep your eyes peeled and you might even spot a camel or two! On the other side, the mountain leaps from the ground in a sheer wall of sandstone and granite. A walk along the base of the rock is done easily at your own pace. Upon approaching the foot of this majestic mountain, tilt your head back and take in the enormity of the pillars. Massive as big-city skyscrapers, these natural formations speak of something ancient. A testament to this place and its withstanding thousands of years of both human and environmental turmoil.
9th May 2016 - 2 x Foxhound protected patrol vehicles sit on the cruise liner terminal in Liverpool waiting to be driven on board the Albion class assault ship HMS Bulwark.
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Built in the 17th century with the aim of reinforcing the defence strategy against foreign enemies, this Fortress has an irregular shape of five bulwarks.
Forte Diamante
È uno dei forti più caratteristici dell’intera cinta muraria difensiva di Genova. Venne realizzato nel 1758 proprio sulla vetta del Monte Diamante, a circa 667 metri di altezza.
La posizione dominante fece del Forte il primo baluardo difensivo della città contro le incursioni provenienti da Nord.
It is one of the most characteristic forts of the entire defensive walls of Genoa. It was built in 1758 on the summit of Mount Diamante, at about 667 meters above sea level.
For his dominant position, the Fort was the first defensive bulwark of the city against raids from the north.
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Awaiting time before departure, 50041 ‘Bulwark’ stands at London Waterloo with the 1v19, the 1910 for Exeter St Davids.
2 hours of travel in the front seating bay of the front coach awaited me: living near Yeovil Junction at the time I was enroute home after a day’s photography in the smoke.
My trip to London had started with catching the first train of the day from Yeovil Junction (a class 50 of course), shooting the railtour ‘The Malt and Hops’ a few times ( flic.kr/p/2ipwiyS and flic.kr/p/2itoZ3j), filling in with trains on the Great Eastern ( flic.kr/p/2im55ks) and back to Waterloo.
No regrets, but my compositional skills then could be improved: I managed to chop off both a unit on the left of the frame and another class 50 on the right!