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I took a few more pictures, mainly of the Spree Canal and the River Spree as we walked around\u00a0Fischerinsel and made our way back towards the flat. Above is Gr\u00fcnstrassenbr\u00fccke.<\/p>\n
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This is I think the view towards Ro\u00dfstra\u00dfenbr\u00fccke from Gr\u00fcnstra\u00dfenbr\u00fccke, originally the site of another early wooden bascule bridge across the Spree Canal with a 7m wide opening for boats, certainly present in the 18th century. In 1904-5 the rather delicate lifting bridge then in place was replaced by a solid stone bridge designed by Berlin architect Richard Wolffenstein and decorated with reliefs by sculptor Ernst Westphal. The bridge was blown up by the the\u00a0 German Wehrmacht in 1945, and reconstructed by the East Berlin authorities in 1951, with further restoration after unification in 1994-5.<\/p>\n
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Along the bank of the Spree Canal is\u00a0M\u00e4rkisches Ufer, rebuilt by the East German regime in the 1960s using various buildings from elsewhere in the city.<\/p>\n
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At right is the Ermelerhaus on\u00a0M\u00e4rkisches Ufer, orignally built in the 17th century at Breite Strasse but taken down and rebuilt here in the 1960s. It was named after Ferdinand-Wilhelm Ermeler, the co-founder of the tobacco industry in Berlin, who purchased the house in 1824.\u00a0 The building at centre has the dates\u00a01740 and 1969 above the door and was taken down and rebuilt here from the\u00a0Friedrichsgracht. The rather ornate building at left dates from 1890, and has an interesting doorway supported by two young topless maidens (they are also bottomless, as their bodies end around waist level); it once housed a bath house.<\/p>\n
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I think this is a school building on Fischerinsel.<\/p>\n
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The moorings here at\u00a0M\u00e4rkisches Ufer houuse a collection of historic vessels.<\/p>\n
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Lions beside the Spree outside a cafe on Spreeufer.<\/p>\n
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The Spree and Berlin Cathedral from\u00a0Spreeufer.<\/p>\n
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This large and impressive statue of\u00a0St George slaying the Dragon by August Kiss was made for the courtyard of the\u00a0 Hof des Stadtschlosses in<\/span>\u00a01853; when the East German government demolished this in the 1950s it was moved\u00a0 to the\u00a0Volkspark Friedrichshain. It is now on the banks of the Spree in the recreated Nikolai quarter. It went missing in 2010, taken away for extensive restoration at a cost of\u00a0120,000 \u20ac and had only recently been returned to its plinth (with a 3-day festival) when I took a series of pictures.<\/p>\n The Kurf\u00fcrstenhaus (Prince-elector’s House) on Spreeufer is\u00a0the home of the\u00a0Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (German Business Foundation.) It was built in\u00a01895 to 1896 for wool merchant Gustav Ebell by architect Carl Gause.<\/p>\n Elector Johann Sigismund (1572-1619), Elector of Brandenburg from 1608 to 1619, fled to this site from the Berlin Palace convinced that the ‘White Woman’ announcing death haunted his castle; he died here a few days later.\u00a0 The figure in the picture is thought to be his wife, Duchess Anna of Prussia and J\u00fclich-Cleves-Berg, apparently a temperamental and strong-willed woman who undermined his reputation by throwing plates at glasses at his head when he was drunk.<\/p>\n Our walks around Berlin continue in later posts.<\/p>\n Previous Berlin post<\/a><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________<\/p>\n There are no adverts on this site and it receives no sponsorship, and I like to keep it that way. But it does take a considerable amount of my time and thought, and if you enjoy reading it, a small donation<\/a> – perhaps the cost of a beer – would be appreciated. <\/small><\/p>\n My London Diary<\/a> : London Photos<\/a> : Hull<\/a> : River Lea\/Lee Valley<\/a> : London’s Industrial Heritage<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n All photographs on this and my other sites, unless otherwise stated, are taken by and copyright of Peter Marshall, and are available for reproduction or can be bought as prints.<\/small><\/p>\n To order prints or reproduce images<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<\/p>\n ________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I took a few more pictures, mainly of the Spree Canal and the River Spree as we walked around\u00a0Fischerinsel and made our way back towards the flat. Above is Gr\u00fcnstrassenbr\u00fccke. This is I think the view towards Ro\u00dfstra\u00dfenbr\u00fccke from Gr\u00fcnstra\u00dfenbr\u00fccke, originally the site of another early wooden bascule bridge across the Spree Canal with a … Continue reading Berlin 16: Around the Spree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9436,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9427\/revisions\/9436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2011\/07\/berlin\/20110724-d0743.jpg\")
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