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Making way for the Railroads A collection of archival photographs

Western Ramparts needed to be removed to make way for tracks

Figure 7- View from the Promenade that still rurs on the west side of the tracks. Photographed about 1890, it is rust a few years before construction of the new Hauptbahnhof and the removal of the rampart and The construction of the Stadtgraben. which ran in front of the station. Stairs to tracks provides the only’ connection to the trains.

Figure 8- Stockturm, Synagogue and Marienkirch emerge from behind the western ramparts being demolished,

Figure 9- An 1896 photograph of the demolition of the bastion named Karren. Hegelsberg is in the distance. Final clearing was accomplished, tracks were laid, and the Haupfbahnhof was completed by 1900. Note the small hopper cars used for carrying away the bricks and earth from the bastions. If you visit Gdaflsk today, you can still see the southern bastions exactly as Napoleon found them.

 

Danzig Report Vol. 1 - Nr. 108 - July - August - September - 2000, Page 20.