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...Dutch crisis was most dire, but Europeans elsewhere were also scrambling to escape the second epic deluge in 13 months. Upriver, in Germany, the Rhine rose to 10.69 m at Cologne, equaling the century's record height dating from 1926. Overflows turned the riverside Altstadt, or old town, a tourism and entertainment quarter, into a Venice North. Murky waters gurgling through the medieval byways filled the basement of the Philharmonic Center. Still, the music managed to triumph. Pumps labored through the evening to keep the concert hall dry, and the orchestra, like the band on the Titanic, played...
Elliptical Shadows. To Dealer Alfred Schmela, Beuys's appointment to the academy in 1961 was the starting signal for avant-garde forces to coalesce in Dusseldorf. Other observers give much credit to Schmela, who opened his gallery in 1957 in the picturesque Altstadt quarter and introduced the city to most of its comers, from Group Zero to Surrealist Konrad Klapheck, a bespectacled young man who paints typewriters, telephones, boots, bicycle bells and shower heads as though they had eyes, ears and affections of their...
What saddens some Germans even more than the traffic is the news that more than 200 of the ancient dwellings in Heidelberg's Altstadt-the "Old Town" where generations of Heidelberg students loved to stroll-are near collapse from neglect and fungus rot. Loath to destroy the Altstadt (and along with it a lucrative tourist trade), Heidelbergers are equally reluctant to try to raise the $50 million needed to restore the buildings...
...visitor is confronted by a half-mile panorama of weeds and rubble, a skyline of twisted girders and the rusting frames of church spires. As a transportation nexus, Dresden was the most heavily damaged city in Germany in World War II. The center of the city, the historic Altstadt, was all but leveled by Allied bombers. The Communists have made little effort to rebuild it after 15 years...
...your nerves. The two alarms at the beginning of this month were especially hideous. The industries situated on the right side of the railroad have suffered especially, likewise the Graf Adolf Strasse. Part of this street [one of the main streets in Düsseldorf] looks really devastated. In the Altstadt [old part of the city centre] too you find sad corners. A few thousand fire bombs have come down. The most terrible thing is the shooting. Often it lasts for three hours without any interruption. Soldiers who have participated in the French offensive say that...
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