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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder why there is a second completely unused road on the right of the 1990 picture

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here is another picture. you can see the church in the background. ~~The right side is the road to the houses, and on the left is the speed-way with 2x2 lanes.~~ It was (still) crazy back then.

EDIT: I was corrected. Its not. It is the substitute road.

Here is a recent picture looking from the other direction. Again the church now on the left. It was a crazy project but it was well received by the Altstadt/Oldtown.

In the German Wikipedia you can find another nice picture of the Rhine-Bank (Rhein-Ufer). It shows the Steps to the Rhine in 1900 - before the asphalt rolled over all that land. Notice the church and Tower in the back. And today.

the substitute road

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh I see. Judging by the 'step' above the road on the first picture it looks like there might have been a dock there before the road was built?