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Taken in Stockwell, Decembver 2013.
Please note I am not the artist of this work, merely the photographer.
Shredding pow and pillows makes for an epic day :D
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Tess came over for some fun stuff with the strobist rig - I learned a lot from the session and it was great fun...
Strobist stuff:
1 x 580 EXII with shoot through umbrella half-left. Full power.
1 x 430 EXII with shoot through umbrella half-right. One eigth power.
Triggered by cheap Chinese wireless triggers.
Black backdrop levelled out in Photoshop.
Next time I'll do it somewhere industrial and not waste time with the backdrop...
This is a picture of a security guard at SCIS, I tried to tell him that I'm taking a picture about xenophobia, but I think he didn't understand and gave me a happy smile, luckily I can use my genius photoshop skill to fix this crucial mistake.
Photo taken on August 17, 2013 at the 33rd annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival at the Museum of Indian Culture on Fish Hatchery Rd. in Allentown, PA.
POW Camp 198 (Island Farm) was a Prisoner of War Camp in Bridgend, South Wales. It was built originally as a dormitory for female factory workers in 1938, it became a POW camp in 1944. The camp hosted a number of Axis prisoners, most of them German, and was the scene of the largest escape attempt by German POW’s in Britain during World War II in March 1945.
These photographs, taken in September 2012, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for some of the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
The Pow burn seperates Prestwick and Monkton, it crosses Prestwick Airport and Prestwick Golf Course before reaching the sea.
November 25, 2012 - The Cabazon Pow Wow at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, CA. Drums, Colors and Native American Culture.
Camp 50 is nowadays remembered, if at all, largely because of its connection with the celebrated Manchester City goalkeeper Bert Trautmann. No less interesting from a historical perspective is the story of the British army's official interpreter at the camp, Company Sergeant Major Kurt Bloch.
Born in Berlin on 20 March 1901, Kurt had married Ella Moses (b. 11 November 1904) in 1926. The Schöneberg district marriage register is endorsed to the effect that the couple were in fact divorced in 1931, but this seems to have had no effect on either their domestic situation or their professional activities. The Berlin telephone directory for 1937 places the couple at Dircksenstr. 51, also the location of the Kamm-Bloch factory of which Ella is named as “inhaberin” or proprietor. They are again included in the personal listings in the 1938 directory, but there is now no mention of the comb factory. It appears from other records that Kurt left Germany via the port of Bremen on 14 November 1938. Ella soon followed, travelling on passport no. J11/F856/38 issued at Berlin on 31 December 1938 and landing at Grimsby on 31 March 1939. Registration of the civilian population of England and Wales on 29 September 1939 found the pair reunited in Bradford, West Yorkshire, where Kurt is listed as “Hair Comb Maker” and Ella as engaged in “Unpaid Domestic Duties”. In the meanwhile, on 10 January 1939, Kurt's German birth registration had been endorsed to the effect that he was deemed to have taken the name “Israel” in accordance with an order of 17 August 1938 on identification of those deemed to be of Jewish extraction. The “Jüdischer Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930-1945” database, compiled in 2005-12 under the auspices of the Chair of 20th Century German History at Humboldt University (www2.hu-berlin.de/djgb/www/about), shows that the Bloch factory in Berlin had been taken over in 1938 and was liquidated by the Nazis in 1940.
The Bloch & Adler comb factory in Bradford, in which Kurt and/or Ella presumably had some interest, employed several European Jews who had arrived in the city via Kindertransports etc. One of them, Albert Waxman (1924-2019), would later join the RAF and serve as interpreter at POW Camp 265 Park Farm, near Peterborough. Before then, however, both Kurt Bloch and his wife were briefly interned as “enemy aliens”. Records show that Kurt was released on 8 November 1940 on account of his acceptance for enlistment in the Auxiliary Military Pioneers Corps of the British army. Ella was simultaneously released from her internment on the Isle of Man and, on 7 January 1941, she returned to Bradford.
Kurt Bloch's war service record has not been examined but it is apparent that, at least by April 1946, he held the positions of Staff-Sergeant and Interpreter at Camp 50 and had placed himself at the centre of political re-education efforts:
“The key man in re-education is the interpreter, S/Sgt Bloch, a German Jewish refugee. He is quite one of the best and most efficient interpreters I have yet encountered and takes a most active part in the re-education of the PsW”.*
An account of Bert Trautmann's first meeting with him is given by Trautmann biographer Catrine Clay:
“The first time thy met wasn't auspicious. Sergeant Bloch marched into the camp office in his British army uniform and discussed matters with [POW labour organiser] Mr Maynard before addressing POW Trautmann in what sounded like perfect English. 'My name is Sergeant Bloch', he announced, short and sharp, pronouncing his name 'Block' as in English. He ordered Trautmann to wait in the car, ready for a day of inspections... They had 8 farms to visit that day, which meant being on the road for a good 12 hours... [As they drove] Bloch sat looking out of the window at the passing countryside, smoking a cigarette and humming contentedly. He was a big man with a wide girth and seemed to have an easy temperament. After a while Bernd's curiosity got the better of him.
'I thought you interpreters spoke German'.
'We do', he said in English, adding, 'I'm as German as you are' in German in a strong Berlin accent, and laughing.
Bernd had to laugh as well at the way Bloch had caught him out like a typical Berliner. But after that a silence hung between them because they both knew why Bloch was in England not Berlin.
'I left in 1936', Bloch said after a few minutes, again in German. 'I used to have a brush and comb factory but the Nazis took it off me so I came here.... How about you?... You were a Fallschirmjäger [paratrooper], weren't you?'
So Bloch knew all about him.”**
Impressed by the CSM's evident concern for the welfare of the POWs, Trautmann told The Guardian in 2010:
“I quickly came to see Bloch, and every other Jew, as human beings. At first I sometimes lost my temper with him, but, in time, I talked to him as if he was just another English soldier. I liked him”.***
In October 1946 Kurt was naturalised as a British subject under the “Crown service” provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act. Shortly after this he was discharged from the army and so left the Camp. He and Ella settled in London, remaining there until their deaths in April 1968 and July 1965 respectively.
The almost universal praise that Kurt had received from visiting lecturers and PID inspectors alike for his efforts to further the political re-education of the POWs at Camp 50 makes all the more startling the claim, following his departure, that “CSM Bloch” had fostered in the Camp an “atmosphere of 'gestapo-mentality' and general mistrust” by using his influence to favour those who shared his “strong left wing views” when it came to deciding which prisoners should be repatriated or given certain privileges:
“Through his “agents” he knew of the individual PWs' political views. Nobody dared to utter opinions different from Bloch's, lest they jeopardized their chances of repat”.
Was Kurt Bloch a left-wing extremist? This seems unlikely given his background as an entrepreneur. Moreover it is surely understandable -even commendable- that he would wish to counter any lingering Nazi influence, given what had happened to his former homeland and all that he had suffered personally. Perhaps the strongest charge that can be levelled against him is that he seems to have been something of an opportunist who, in his eagerness to demonstrate his commitment to the cause of political re-education, failed to carry the generality of the POWs along with him or to notice that his superiors were increasingly more concerned about the spread of communism in Europe than they were about residual Nazism in the camps. I can find no record of his subsequent employment by PID.
*From the report by Major Readman, 8 July 1946, at National Archives ref. FO 939/132 “Prisoner of War Camps: 50 Working Camp, Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire”.
**“Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend”, Yellow Jersey Press 2010. The book is based partly on conversations between the author and her subject in 2007. Some factual inaccuracies – CSM Bloch is given the forename “Herman”, and his departure from Germany put back by two years- may be attributable to memory lapses and/or misunderstandings on Trautmann's part. It seems unlikely that he and Bloch would have been on first-name terms in 1946.
***“Bert Trautmann: from Nazi paratrooper to hero of Manchester City”, 10 April 2010.
Images from National Archives ref. FO 939/300 “Reports on Camp Lectures: 50 Working Camp, Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire”-
Left: Letter of 4 May 1946 from S/Sgt K Bloch to Major Robert Seeds, PID Lecture Section, enclosing manuscript copies of two lectures “which I held in this Camp and hostels recently”; offers to repeat them at other POW camps. (Major Seeds would return the manuscripts with his letter of 5 June to the Camp 50 commandant: “With such lecturing your S/Sgt must be doing a lot of good work in your camp but would you explain to him that I cannot use British camp staff for lecturing in other camps”.)
Right, above: Letter of 26 July 1946 from S/Sgt Bloch to Major Seeds' successor, G R Halkett, enclosing a copy of “Aufbauwille” No. 9 and seeking an interview.
Right, below: Note by G R Halkett of S/Sgt Bloch's visit on 31 July 1946: “Will be dem[obilised] in September and will apply for use as Lecturer or TA...”.
Joseph's Church (St. Pölten )
Catholic Parish Church of St. Josef
Object ID : 26022 Kranzbichlerstraße 24a
The wide three-aisled pillar basilica under a gable roof with a transept was built 1924-1929 in Romanesque style according to the plans of the architect Matthäus Schlager.
The Parish Church of St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic church in the city of St. Pölten.
On the north side there are three portals, the middle portal is funnel-shaped, the facades have rounded arch windows and a historicized Traufgesims (eaves cornice). The retracted choir has a round apse. To the west of the church, to Mariazellerstraße is situated a freestanding metal casting statue Christ by sculptor Karl Schwerzek. The high church tower under a pitched roof is to the west at transept and choir juxtaposed. The square in front of the entrance facade was named with Father Paul's Place and on Paul Wörndl as the first pastor of the church a memorial plaque at the church installed.
Inside is the church as well as the organ loft on the north side continuously kreuzgratgewölbt (groined vaulted) and baroquising monumentally designed. The interior of the church, such as altar, Stipes (thick post - substructur of the altar) with stepped retabel wall, tabernacles with reliefs, like a statue of Saint Josef, were created based on designs by the sculptor Heinrich Zita 1933. The wall paintings in the vaults and in the shallow round arched niches in the apse and the side altars are by the painter Sepp Zöchling from 1958.
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History of the City St. Pölten
In order to present concise history of the Lower Austrian capital is in the shop of the city museum a richly illustrated full version on CD-ROM.
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On the occasion of the commemoration of the pogroms of November 1938, the Institute for Jewish History of Austria its virtual Memorbuch (Memory book) for the destroyed St. Pölten Jewish community since 10th November 2012 is putting online.
Prehistory
The time from which there is no written record is named after the main materials used for tools and weapons: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Using the latest technologies, archaeologists from archaeological finds and aerial photographs can trace a fairly detailed picture of life at that time. Especially for the time from the settling down of the People (New Stone Age), now practicing agriculture and animal husbandry, in the territory of St. Pölten lively settlement activity can be proved. In particular, cemeteries are important for the research, because the dead were laid in the grave everyday objects and jewelry, the forms of burial changing over time - which in turn gives the archeology valuable clues for the temporal determination. At the same time, prehistory of Sankt Pölten would not be half as good documented without the construction of the expressway S33 and other large buildings, where millions of cubic meters of earth were moved - under the watchful eyes of the Federal Monuments Office!
A final primeval chapter characterized the Celts, who settled about 450 BC our area and in addition to a new culture and religion also brought with them the potter's wheel. The kingdom of Noricum influenced till the penetration of the Romans the development in our area.
Roman period, migrations
The Romans conquered in 15 BC the Celtic Empire and established hereinafter the Roman province of Noricum. Borders were protected by military camp (forts), in the hinterland emerged civilian cities, almost all systematically laid out according to the same plan. The civil and commercial city Aelium Cetium, as St. Pölten was called (city law 121/122), consisted in the 4th Century already of heated stone houses, trade and craft originated thriving urban life, before the Romans in the first third of the 5th Century retreated to Italy.
The subsequent period went down as the Migration Period in official historiography, for which the settlement of the Sankt Pöltner downtown can not be proved. Cemeteries witness the residence of the Lombards in our area, later it was the Avars, extending their empire to the Enns.
The recent archaeological excavations on the Cathedral Square 2010/2011, in fact, the previous knowledge of St.Pölten colonization not have turned upside down but enriched by many details, whose full analysis and publication are expected in the near future.
Middle Ages
With the submission of the Avars by Charlemagne around 800 AD Christianity was gaining a foothold, the Bavarian Benedictine monastery of Tegernsee establishing a daughter house here - as founder are mentioned the brothers Adalbert and Ottokar - equipped with the relics of St. Hippolytus. The name St. Ypolit over the centuries should turn into Sankt Pölten. After the Hungarian wars and the resettlement of the monastery as Canons Regular of St. Augustine under the influence of Passau St. Pölten received mid-11th Century market rights.
In the second half of the 20th century historians stated that records in which the rights of citizens were held were to be qualified as Town Charters. Vienna is indeed already in 1137 as a city ("civitas") mentioned in a document, but the oldest Viennese city charter dates only from the year 1221, while the Bishop of Passau, Konrad, already in 1159 the St. Pöltnern secured:
A St. Pöltner citizen who has to answer to the court, has the right to make use of an "advocate".
He must not be forced to rid himself of the accusation by a judgment of God.
A St. Pöltner citizen may be convicted only by statements of fellow citizens, not by strangers.
From the 13th Century exercised a city judge appointed by the lord of the city the high and low jurisdiction as chairman of the council meetings and the Municipal Court, Inner and Outer Council supported him during the finding of justice. Venue for the public verdict was the in the 13th Century created new marketplace, the "Broad Market", now the town hall square. Originally square-shaped, it was only later to a rectangle reduced. Around it arose the market district, which together with the monastery district, the wood district and the Ledererviertel (quarter of the leather goods manufacturer) was protected by a double city wall.
The dependence of St. Pölten of the bishop of Passau is shown in the municipal coat of arms and the city seal. Based on the emblem of the heraldic animal of the Lord of the city, so the Bishop of Passau, it shows an upright standing wolf holding a crosier in its paw.
Modern Times
In the course of the armed conflict between the Emperor Frederick III . and King Matthias of Hungary pledged the Bishop of Passau the town on the Hungarian king. From 1485 stood Lower Austria as a whole under Hungarian rule. The most important document of this period is the awarding of the city coat of arms by King Matthias Corvinus in the year 1487. After the death of the opponents 1490 and 1493 could Frederick's son Maximilian reconquer Lower Austria. He considered St. Pölten as spoils of war and had no intention of returning it to the diocese of Passau. The city government has often been leased subsequently, for instance, to the family Wellenstein, and later to the families Trautson and Auersperg.
That St. Pölten now was a princely city, found its expression in the coat of arms letter of the King Ferdinand I. from 1538: From now on, the wolf had no crosier anymore, and the from the viewer's point of view left half showed the reverse Austrian shield, so silver-red-silver.
To the 16th Century also goes back the construction of St. Pöltner City Hall. The 1503 by judge and council acquired house was subsequently expanded, rebuilt, extended and provided with a tower.
A for the urban history research important picture, painted in 1623, has captured scenes of the peasant uprising of 1597, but also allows a view to the city and lets the viewer read some of the details of the then state of construction. The economic inconveniences of that time were only exacerbated by the Thirty Years War, at the end of which a fifth of the houses were uninhabited and the citizenry was impoverished.
Baroque
After the successful defense against the Turks in 1683, the economy started to recover and a significant building boom began. Lower Austria turned into the land of the baroque abbeys and monasteries, as it is familiar to us today.
In St. Pölten, the change of the cityscape is closely connected to the Baroque architect Jakob Prandtauer. In addition to the Baroquisation of the interior of the cathedral, a number of buildings in St. Pölten go to his account, so the reconstruction of the castle Ochsenburg, the erection of the Schwaighof and of the core building of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Englische Fräuleins - English Maidens) - from 1706 the seat of the first school order of St.Pölten - as well as of several bourgeois houses.
Joseph Munggenast, nephew and co-worker of Prandtauer, completed the Baroquisation of the cathedral, he baroquised the facade of the town hall (1727) and numerous bourgeois houses and designed a bridge over the Traisen which existed until 1907. In the decoration of the church buildings were throughout Tyroleans collaborating, which Jakob Prandtauer had brought along from his homeland (Tyrol) to St. Pölten, for example, Paul Troger and Peter Widerin.
Maria Theresa and her son Joseph II: Their reforms in the city of the 18th Century also left a significant mark. School foundings as a result of compulsory education, the dissolution of the monasteries and hereinafter - from 1785 - the new role of St. Pölten as a bishop's seat are consequences of their policies.
1785 was also the year of a fundamental alteration of the old Council Constitution: The city judge was replaced by one magistrate consisting of five persons, at the head was a mayor. For the first mayor the painter Josef Hackl was chosen.
The 19th century
Despite the Napoleonic Wars - St. Pölten in 1805 and 1809 was occupied by the French - and despite the state bankruptcy of 1811, increased the number of businesses constantly, although the economic importance of the city for the time being did not go beyond the near vicinity.
Against the background of monitoring by the state secret police, which prevented any political commitment between the Congress of Vienna and the 1848 revolution, the citizens withdrew into private life. Sense of family, fostering of domestic music, prominent salon societies in which even a Franz Schubert socialized, or the construction of the city theater were visible signs of this attitude.
The economic upswing of the city did not begin until after the revolution of the year 1848. A prerequisite for this was the construction of the Empress Elisabeth Western Railway, moving Vienna, Linz, soon Salzburg, too, in a reachable distance. The city walls were pulled down, St. Pölten could unfold. The convenient traffic situation favored factory start-ups, and so arose a lace factory, a revolver factory, a soap factory or, for example, as a precursor of a future large-scale enterprise, the braid, ribbon and Strickgarnerzeugung (knitting yarn production) of Matthias Salcher in Harland.
In other areas, too, the Gründerzeit (years of rapid industrial expansion in Germany - and Austria) in Sankt Pölten was honouring its name: The city got schools, a hospital, gas lanterns, canalization, hot springs and summer bath.
The 20th century
At the beginning of the 20th Century the city experienced another burst of development, initiated by the construction of the power station in 1903, because electricity was the prerequisite for the settlement of large companies. In particular, the companies Voith and Glanzstoff and the main workshop of the Federal Railways attracted many workers. New Traisen bridge, tram, Mariazell Railway and other infrastructure buildings were erected; St. Pölten obtained a synagogue. The Art Nouveau made it repeatedly into the urban architecture - just think of the Olbrich House - and inspired also the painting, as exponents worth to be mentioned are Ernst Stöhr or Ferdinand Andri.
What the outbreak of the First World War in broad outlines meant for the monarchy, on a smaller scale also St. Pölten has felt. The city was heavily impacted by the deployment of army units, a POW camp, a military hospital and a sick bay. Industrial enterprises were partly converted into war production, partly closed. Unemployment, housing emergency and food shortages long after the war still were felt painfully.
The 1919 to mayor elected Social Democrat Hubert Schnofl after the war tried to raise the standard of living of the people by improving the social welfare and health care. The founding of a housing cooperative (Wohnungsgenossenschaft), the construction of the water line and the establishment of new factories were further attempts to stimulate the stiffening economy whose descent could not be stopped until 1932.
After the National Socialist regime had stirred false hopes and plunged the world into war, St. Pölten was no longer the city as it has been before. Not only the ten devastating bombings of the last year of the war had left its marks, also the restrictive persecution of Jews and political dissidents had torn holes in the structure of the population. Ten years of Russian occupation subsequently did the rest to traumatize the population, but at this time arose from the ruins a more modern St. Pölten, with the new Traisen bridge, district heating, schools.
This trend continued, an era of recovery and modernization made the economic miracle palpable. Already in 1972 was - even if largely as a result of incorporations - exceeded the 50.000-inhabitant-limit.
Elevation to capital status (capital of Lower Austria), 10 July 1986: No other event in this dimension could have become the booster detonation of an up to now ongoing development thrust. Since then in a big way new residential and commercial areas were opened up, built infrastructure constructions, schools and universities brought into being to enrich the educational landscape. East of the Old Town arose the governmental and cultural district, and the list of architects wears sonorous names such as Ernst Hoffmann (NÖ (Lower Austria) Landhaus; Klangturm), Klaus Kada (Festspielhaus), Hans Hollein (Shedhalle and Lower Austrian Provincial Museum), Karin Bily, Paul Katzberger and Michael Loudon ( NÖ State Library and NÖ State Archive).
European Diploma, European flag, badge of honor, Europe Price: Between 1996 and 2001, received St. Pölten numerous appreciations of its EU commitment - as a sort of recognition of the Council of Europe for the dissemination of the EU-idea through international town twinnings, a major Europe exhibition or, for example, the establishment and chair of the "Network of European medium-sized cities".
On the way into the 21st century
Just now happened and already history: What the St. Pöltnern as just experienced sticks in their minds, travelers and newcomers within a short time should be told. The theater and the hospital handing over to the province of Lower Austria, a new mayor always on the go, who was able to earn since 2004 already numerous laurels (Tags: polytechnic, downtown enhancement, building lease scheme, bus concept) - all the recent changes are just now condensed into spoken and written language in order to make, from now on, the history of the young provincial capital in the 3rd millennium nachlesbar (checkable).
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