Flak tower VI in Wilhelmsburg and ice

If you're a member ofabandonedplaces, you've already seen this. The below is a Flak tower around the corner from my school - right across from the bus station, in fact. I'd love to see it from the inside, but that seems to be impossible. Up until a few years ago there was a guy who did illegal guided tours, but he seems to be retired now, and as the apparently mostly wooden interior was heavily damaged in 1947 when the L-tower was demolished, that's probably a good thing.niaseath remains convinced that we should just take matters into our own hands, climb the fence and look for unguarded entrances, but given that those I did see didn't even have any sort of lock or doorknobs that'll probably be futile.

It's a shame that they don't use this thing. Well, they do, as a mobile phone tower, but that is not quite what I had in mind. The other Flak tower in Hamburg is now the home to several clubs and dancing venues. Surely, there must be some use for such a great big building? Restoring the thing is probably too expensive if the damage really was that great, but having a nearly sound-proof nine-storey youth club in the area might be a good idea, too. I know my students would love to have that thing as a hangout - I'm sure I would.  

 

( A walk around the tower (10) )

Due to the recent cold, there were frozen "waterfalls" and big icicles down the northern side of the place.



( Ice (6) )

Today, I'm going back to Hamburg to be at the Lehrerprüfungsamt bright and early tomorrow to get registered for my final exam. I am terrified.

Book snapshots

During my journey back to Hamburg today, the man in the seat across mine took out his cellphone and took a picture of the book I was reading (What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England). Or my leg. I suppose it was the book, though.

This is not the first time, either - it happened before that someone sitting next to me or opposite took down the name and author of the book I was reading, and only two weeks ago an man sitting opposite took a picture of the book I was reading back then (The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England) on his cellphone after considerable neck-craning.

Good to know I'm spreading the word.