Every country has places which the citizens think are the ugliest ones. In Ludwigshafen everybody knows, Ludwigshafen is one of the ugliest cities. In Bavaria we think it is Stevenage.

 

Ludwigshafen is a new town which was founded by Wittelsbacher Bavarian King Ludwig I. in Palatine in the 19’th century. And became an early important industrial center. With chemical plants which exploded ounce in a while. It was on top of the list for a nuclear bomb attack by the US forces at the end of WWII. Fortunately, the war ended early enough before a possible attack.

We visited church St. Ludwig in the Ludwigstraße

   

near the Ludwig Pharmacy.

Then we went to Luitpoldhafen, a harbor and city part in Ludwigshafen. Which reminds of Wittelsbacher Prinzregent Luitpold (ruling as Prince for his mentally sick nephew King Otto), another member of the Wittelsbacher Dynasty.

   

familiar street name like in Munich.

We walked on the comfortable “Hannelore – Kohl Promenade” along the Rhine River. Hannelore was famous for her Cherry Cake and Saumagen which she served in her home nearby in Oggersheim while foreign Presidents visited. Michail Gorbatschow liked it but Margarete Thatcher wasn’t fond of the uncivilized Saumagen.

The Helmut Kohl Street is on the other side of the Rhine River in Mannheim with no connection. We watched freight ships and cyclers pass by and enjoyed the atmosphere.  It was a cloudy and lazy day.

 

 

Helmut was the husband of Hannelore and longtime Chancelor of Germany; nickname: Pear.

In 1921 a chemical plant exploded in Germany’s ugliest city. But it could be worse.

But if you add some music, it makes it look nicer.

While taking a picture on the impressive Konrad-Adenauer Bridge a female cycler in a bright yellow coat passed us and gave us a giant charming smile. But we had to anonymimize the picture.

   

   

 

 

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