Tuesday, it must be Essen! We picked up our city guide opposite the railway station and he gave us a tour of this enormous city. The photo right shows the new HQ of the ThyssenKrupp Company, built in shiny steel and glass. It is the centrepiece of a newly redeveloped area of the city. Many old buildings did survive the war and have been put to imaginative uses, old warehouses have become theatres and art galleries. We paid a visit to the "Margarethenhoehe" a small development of houses and gardens within the city, the first of its kind in Germany, and founded by Margarethe Krupp in 1904. She gifted the money for its construction on the occasion of the marriage of her daughter Bertha to Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach. Today it is part of the Krupp Foundation, which is the majority shareholder in the ThyssenKrupp Company. The photo below shows our group outside the main entrance of the "Margarethenhoehe".A lower photo shows our coach outside "Villa Huegel" the family home of the Krupp family and built in 1870 to 1873. The Americans confiscated it in 1945 and used it as an HQ, only returning it to the Krupp family in 1952. It is now part of the Krupp Foundation and houses the family archives, letters and photographs. www.villahuegel.de will give you more photos and information.
The bottom photos shows coalwagons coming up out of the pit at Coalmine "Zollverein." While standing on the viewing platform over these rails, our guide played the noises that would have been heard in this shed, as wagons came up every few minutes and emptied the coal into bigger containers. Visit: www.zollverein.de for more info.
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