L'esprit d'escalier

Location: presetting 70 (Neustadt - between U-Bahn station Baumwall and jetties)
Type: Zombeck
Year: 1940
Use: Restaurant
Comment: This shelter is located in the Portuguese district of Hamburg, located right on the harbor. Many of the 11,000 residents in Hamburg Portuguese have to open the pleasant slope, restaurants. The food is excellent and still affordable. It will therefore not surprising that a bunker located in this district, is also used by Portuguese restaurateur. Again, the imperial eagle above the door was properly denazified what is the logo of the Portuguese restaurants (left) just can not say. This is already in the category of unconstitutional symbols, which is considered to be probably more than coincidence, though misleading in light of the history of the bunker at first glance. It's always all a question of context.

The Portuguese singing mill with its fortified border to the damming of clay or tin vessels, which generate polyphonic chords, when in motion, excited in their native environment on the southwest coast of Portugal certainly no suspicion. In the context of a German air raid shelter from World War II, the vanes act in their arrangement at first sight somewhat disconcerting. Admittedly, in the shape of the building of bunkers like those found in Portugal Mühlenbauten almost spitting. Maybe keep the Portuguese former tenant of the bunker so that even for a mill. The lady and the man of the world are not possible misunderstanding on the glue. You have in front of the chords are in the ear and the eye quixotischen windmills. This in Castilla-La Mancha encountered mills equal of her body her that is also that of the air raid shelter (The direction of the comparison is of course an anachronism - the air raid shelter resembles most the much older Mühlenbauten), but the wing structures differ from the Portuguese. The Spanish do not seem to generate constructs of tones. The name of the restaurant is suitable to create further confusion. "Galego" means, in the Galician language: "Galician". Galician is spoken in Galicia, which is now anything but in Portugal, but in northwestern Spain. The Galician language, however, has apparently a very high similarity with the Portuguese language. If the restaurant owner that is officially actually of Spanish origin (apart from the fact that he might pass her by far is German), who feels as belonging to followers of any separation movement tend to Portugal? A Spaniard in the northwest of Spain uses an icon from the south-west of Portugal, to document their Portuguese identity?

With such considerations comes the bunker, which is in question actually, quite out of sight. In short, it's nice that there is a restaurant in this bunker, and he thus revived, without denying the past. The emphasis on the similarity of Bunker Mill and ultimately fired the European idea and reconciles past and present in a relaxed manner. Only hypersensitive skeptics stumble on to the political incorrectness, the wing design. But even here, of course, sit on PC monitor an anachronism. The use of this centuries-long wind turbine blade design and this is still not commensurate with the decades of perversion of the sun wheel.

Literature:

• Schmal, Helga and Selke, Tobias, bunker - and Luftschutzbau air raid in Hamburg. With the collaboration Henning von Angerer and Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann. Published by the Department of Culture and the Archaeological Service. Hamburg, 2001.

Location: Moorweide / Rothenbaumchaussee 2 (Rotherbaum district / county Eimsbüttel)
Type: Zombeck
Year: 1940
Use: This former bunker is used as a cocktail bar.

Literature:

• Schmal, Helga and Selke, Tobias, bunker - and Luftschutzbau air raid in Hamburg. With the collaboration Henning von Angerer and Ilse Rüttgerodt-Riechmann. Published by the Department of Culture and the Archaeological Service. Hamburg, 2001.