Hermitage of Calomini
Tuscany, Italy


Photo in Explore 18.05.2023

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"Old Elbe Tunnel or St. Pauli Elbe Tunnel (German: Alter Elbtunnel colloquially or St. Pauli Elbtunnel officially) which opened in 1911, is a pedestrian and vehicle tunnel in Hamburg. The 426 m (1,398 ft) long tunnel was a technical sensation; 24 m (80 ft) beneath the surface, two 6 m (20 ft) diameter tubes connect central Hamburg with the docks and shipyards on the south side of the river Elbe. This was a big improvement for tens of thousands of workers in one of the busiest harbours in the world.
Six large lifts on either side of the tunnel carry pedestrians and vehicles to the bottom. The two tunnels are both still in operation, though due to their limited capacity by today's standards, other bridges and tunnels have been built and taken over most of the traffic. [...]

On 22 July 1907 the construction, undertaken by Philipp Holzmann, started to connect the quarters of St. Pauli near the Landungsbrücken and Steinwerder.
Work was done under pressure because the tunnel was below the water table of the Elbe. This type of building technique was used in the 19th century, in large engineering excavations, such as with the piers of bridges and with tunnels, where caissons under pressure were used to keep water from flooding the excavations, such as the foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
Workers who spend time in high-pressure atmospheric pressure conditions are at risk when they return to the lower pressure outside the caisson without slowly reducing the surrounding pressure. Due to the problems associated with decompression sickness, many of the men working on the Elbe tunnel were affected by what was known at the time as "Caissons Disease". Of 4,400 workers three men died, 74 suffered severe cases and more than 600 came down with light symptoms.
The tunnel opened on 7 September 1911. [...]

The tunnel walls are decorated with glazed terra cotta ornaments displaying items related to the Elbe river. While most show fish or crabs, a few show different items like litter and rats, too."
(Wikipedia)


Photo in Explore 24.11.2022

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Parade of giants in front of the roundhouse shed
Railway museum Bochum-Dahlhausen

"The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum is a railway museum in the south-west of Bochum, which was founded in 1977 by the German Society for Railway History [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte e. V.] and has been operated by the Bochum Railway Museum Foundation [Stiftung Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum] since 2011. With an area of around 46,000 m², it is the largest private railway museum in Germany.
The focal point of the museum is the 14-seat locomotive shed with a 20-metre turntable, water tower, workshops and locomotive treatment facilities such as a coaling station, water crane and sand tower. There are also two other exhibition halls with tracks on the site. There is also an operational 600 mm field railway. The entire facility of the former railway depot is a listed building.
The museum is an anchor point of the Route of Industrial Heritage [Route der Industriekultur]. [...]"
(Translated from German Wikipedia entry)


Photo in Explore 15.10.2022

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Waiting signal Ra 11
Waiting for better weather at the Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum-Dahlhausen

"The Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum is a railway museum in the south-west of Bochum, which was founded in 1977 by the German Society for Railway History [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Eisenbahngeschichte e. V.] and has been operated by the Bochum Railway Museum Foundation [Stiftung Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum] since 2011. With an area of around 46,000 m², it is the largest private railway museum in Germany.
The focal point of the museum is the 14-seat locomotive shed with a 20-metre turntable, water tower, workshops and locomotive treatment facilities such as a coaling station, water crane and sand tower. There are also two other exhibition halls with tracks on the site. There is also an operational 600 mm field railway. The entire facility of the former railway depot is a listed building.
The museum is an anchor point of the Route of Industrial Heritage [Route der Industriekultur]. [...]"
(Translated from German Wikipedia entry)


Photo in Explore 19.09.2022

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The valleys of the Petite Rhue (on the left) and the Impradine (extended by that of the Santoire) (on the right), separated by the Col de Serre (in the centre), seen from the Pas de Peyrol, Cantal, region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
The Pas de Peyrol (1,588 metres), running between the Puy Mary and the Puy de la Tourte, is known to be the highest road pass in the Massif Central.

Panorama stitched from six manually exposed handheld pictures


Photo in Explore 21.08.2022

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