Neckargemuend, Kleingemuend: a memory map

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The railway station; my first and last sight of Neckargemuend.

This bridge is double-decked; trains run along the top deck and pedestrians beneath. I would run in order to be caught on the bridge as a train passed overhead.

My brother and I were allowed to go to the open-air swimming baths by ourselves. In summer, we walked there barefoot with towels over our heads to keep cool.

I went to school here for three months. On the first day, I gazed out of the art classroom window at the chocolate-box view of wooded hills.

I was nearly run over by a coach whilst crossing the road here.

I remember buying flowers from this shop; once, a single rose, with the little pocket money I had.

The tiny toyshop here was run by a lady who also organised the local Harry Potter Club. We became members, and went to an event in Heidelberg where J.K. Rowling was signing books. As she signed mine, I was so flustered to be meeting her that I thanked her in German.

This is the music school where I briefly took singing lessons. My teacher was from New Jersey.

The Ritter, the hotel in which we stayed on our first visit to Germany, December 1999. I woke up on the first morning to find it was snowing.

The Saturday market. I loved the cheese, Butterkaese, we bought there.

My daily joy was to cycle very fast down this street on the way to school.

This was probably an empty lot, but at the time I thought it was just a meadow in between the houses. There were harebells.

We played at this playground. There was a water-pump.

Strawberries grew in this field.

The trees growing here bore the darkest, roundest, juiciest cherries I have ever seen, in gorgeous abundance.

We shopped at this supermarket, Mini-Mal. I loved the small salted rolls at the bakery, the olives from the Italian delicatessen van outside.

I practised cycling in the Aldi car park when it was empty.

The Trinkenmarkt: you could return glass bottles and receive 30 pfennig for each one. I liked to get litre bottles of lemon Fanta.

A horse chestnut tree in the middle of the junction. In summer, it blossomed pink.

My home.

Neckargemuend, Kleingemuend: a memory map by Sorrowfree.

Neckargemuend is the town on the south bank; Kleingemuend is the smaller village to the north of the river. I lived here aged ten to eleven, from January to July 2000, when my father was on a work placement in nearby Mannheim. I remember it very intensely.

(Image copyright 2008 GeoContent. Captured in Google Earth.)

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