The other day a
job obligation brought me to some address here in my hometown and that
instigated a journey back in time. And it instigated some research on my part
which actually wasn't as successful as i would wish but here are the results.
The
address to which i was sent has a very lovely sound to it. It is called Am
Pralinenhaus which would translate into At the Chocolate House. The word
"chocolate" here relates to the tempting candy in a box of chocolates
like this.
The reason for this kind of a "sweet" address is that there had been a chocolate factory on that area before. More about that later though.
As i said it instigated a journey back in time and it turned out that this was not a journey following a straight line but it started to sidetrack and meander.
There are different aspects to this story, as diverse as historical, architectural and personal aspects and i would like to address them all. It turned out a difficult task to really structure that story and so it is now for days on end that i try to write that blog. I wanted it to be a whole but the more i tried the more it slipped away from me. My research brought me more and more details and info which i wanted to use and it became a big mess. As recent as yesterday i was still determined to write it all in one blog entry. I thought giving it subheaders would provide the much needed structure. As of today i have to discard that idea. It is not really working.
If i don't divide it into several parts i will never come to a result.
So i made the decision to split it into several parts. And this here is .. of course .. part one.
