03/10/2010
A look around Bonn
Michael Rodemer is an A&D Professor. He's spending the 2009-2010 academic year in Germany as a Fulbright Senior Scholar.
The sun shone gloriously today, inviting one to go outside despite the never-ending cold.
The structure below juts up in the center of Bonn-Dottendorf, where we live. As mentioned in an earlier post, Dottendorf ("Dotten Village") got swallowed up as Bonn expanded.
So, is it a castle?
No, it's a bunker! In many German cities these things were hastily erected as places of refuge after Allied bombs began to hail down with regularity. This is one of the less...
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