schöneecke

Wernigerode with Wernigerode Castle, Germany

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

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• Pixel Wrangler said:

  Is that a "street" -- or a canal ... or both?

• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet said:

  Should be both: some kind of unpaved street (a carriage is moving round the corner) and some kind of canal. /Anna B

• xiphophilos said:

  The creek is called the Zillierbach, and the view is not far from the Schöne Ecke (Beautiful Corner); in fact, the houses in the center may be part of that street.

• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet said:

  xiphophilos: Thank you so much for the information! According to the map, the narrow street seen on the photo above should be called Schöne Ecke as well - do you agree? /Anna B.

• xiphophilos said:

  Yes, that's right, the street is called Schöne Ecke too. The area still looks very similar today. At the time the picture was taken the castle was the seat of Otto von Stolberg-Wernigerode, a childhood friend of Bismarck and then the Vice Chancellor of the German Reich. Otto commissioned a huge refashioning of the castle into the mock-medieval dream castle that you see. This remodeling was completed in 1885, so the picture may have been taken shortly thereafter (www.schloss-wernigerode.de/htm/de/html/SchlossGeschichte....).