From Charlemagne to the Kitchen Boy: Reading the Hamburg Rathaus

jacquesm

It is interesting to me that a good chunk of Western Europe was already united once before and fell apart again. You only really realize how large the territory he ruled over was when you find out in how many languages they have a localized name for him and that in general the impression was not so much of a conqueror (which he definitely was) but a uniter. And it's well over a thousand years ago. edit: Oh, another funny thing: To this day there are people trying to trace their family linkage with Charlemagne, or "Karel De Grote" as he's called here.

rebeccapowell

Just down the road from Hamburg, the town hall in the city state of Bremen replaced its copper roof in 2016. It was fascinating to see the shiny copper oxidize over a relatively short space of time. https://www.rathaus.bremen.de/rathausdachsanierung-2016-3196...

gyanchawdhary

This post brought back some good memories! I lived in hh for 3 years .. quite close to the rathaus in harvestehude .. and used to walk past it all the time on my way to buy cigars at la casa del habano in chilehaus .. its a stunning building, and the pics really dont do justice to just how massive and imposing it is in person ... even more impressive when u think it was built in the late 1800 ..