Koszalin Town Hall - The day after... Photo

Photographer’s Note

Hello Trekkies,
Our Koszalin tour continues...
Today I would like to present you the Town Hall – the seat of the municipal authorities erected within the period of 1960-62.
Itis the sixth town hall in city’s history. The Old Town market was elineated during town establishment in the XIIIth century. From the beginning of the XIIIth century until the XVIIIth century a town hall was located in the middle of the market. One of the town halls burnt down during the great city’s fire in 1718. In 1720 a new town hall was built at market’s south side, nearby the Cathedral. After a hundred years it was demolished and another building was erected within the period of 1827-1830; it was modernised in 1877. The last pre-war town hall existed until March 1945; it burnt down during city capturing operation.
In PP I tried to achieve a little bit post-apocalyptic effect... ;)
Just to not be boring! :)
Thank you for seeing!!!
Chris
PS: And small funny story: on the left hand side you can see a monument with three columns. At three sides of this monument there is description: WE WERE, WE ARE, WE WILL BE. During the communism in Poland very often some invisible hand have added a small supplement: ...HUNGRY! :)))

Cara, Bluejeans, tedesse, parbo, mark88, JanD has marked this note useful

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Cara (2029) 2009-01-08 10:42

Hello Chris,
Nice image with good sharpness, the pp work beneficts the overall result.
Congratulations, Regards,
Daniel

Bluejeans (31993) 2009-01-08 10:46

Ola Chris ,
Interessante esta praça com este edifício dos anos 60 tem uma arquitectura bem típica da URSS , gostei do céu cinza a foto ficou mais dramática, parabéns!!
Um abraço Gonçalo

imtiyaz (997) 2009-01-08 11:41

Hi Chris,

You moved us into 18th century :)
Well defined composition.

and the PP makes the difference

TFS,
Regards,
Imtiyaz Basha M S

emka (21179) 2009-01-08 12:16

Cześć Doktorku,

Byłam kilka lat temu w Koszalinie, ładne miasto, i nad morze niedaleko. Ratusz przypomina różne szkoły tysiąclecia budowane w tym czasie. Pomnik tez zabawny;). Cóż architektura jest jaka jest. Dobrze, że urozmaiciłes troche PP. Fajne kolorki wyszły i ostrość bardzo dobra. Pozdrawiam

Małgoska

Jeppo (11774) 2009-01-08 13:23

well....soviet like architecture deserves some apocalyptic tones
btw...funny story about being hungry. I think the only one who are actually missing (dupki) towarisce are italian former communists!
(maybe it's so simple being communist when you're living in the rich western world...)

pozdrawiam
silvio

tedesse (13136) 2009-01-08 13:59

Witaj!
Bywalem w Koszalinie najczesciej w drodze do Mielna czy Sarbinowa ladne miasto.
Dobry kadr i ostrosc,ciekawa tonacja.
Interesujaca notka.
Pozdrawiam
Tadeusz

parbo (10966) 2009-01-08 16:08

Hello Chris,

Typical architecture of old times. Still available in many places. Your artistic touch again adds great value. Congratulations.

I know some Polish people while working with them at Iraq in 1981 and also I worked with some of them in an installation of Thermal Power Plant (the Poland company of Elektrim) in Turkey. Yes there was some problems but their all infrastructural needs were solved such as live, health, education, transports etc. (I know this words are short but subject is so deep)

I received a short documentary link today and want to share with you:

Factory Life: Polish Homelessness in Ireland

Take care.

Friendly Regards,

Ertugrul

darek1978 (11163) 2009-01-09 10:07

Witaj,
Zdjecie za sprawa obrobki wyglada jak kadr z filmu fantastycznego. Bardzo ciekawe fota. Troszke kojarzy mi sie z mega wybuchem za tym obiektem a te ptaszki wygladaja jak odlamki:)
Pozdrawiam serdecznie,
Darek

powoj (1655) 2009-01-09 14:49

Witaj,
To , co u nas w Polsce szpetne i bylejakie, postkomunistyczne, wcale nie musi być takie dla ludzi gdzieś tam na świecie. Zwłaszcza tak atrakcyjnie pokazane, jak Twoja prezentacja. Gratuluję

JanD (14606) 2009-01-12 9:05

Czolem Chris!
Budynek taki sobie, nic specjalnego, nawet w dziedzinie kiczu nie znalazlby sie na szczycie, klasyczna PRL-owska budowla z epoki Gomulki, do tego jakis tam PRL-owski pomnik, tez niespecjalnie straszny, ale i niezbyt oryginalny. A jednak ten obiekt w Twoim obiektywie robi wspaniale wrazenie. Dlaczego? Bo fotografia, ktora zrobiles jest pierwszoligowa, ot co.
Pozdrawiam!