Manufacturer’s mark on the steel manhole cover located on the train station’s platform.
It can be described as both foreign and local. I’ve seen it in Poland and the text is written in German. At the time it was created, German wasn’t foreign language in that area…
That’s Europe, that’s history. All messed up.
[15.08.2012]
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mothergrogan 
My father once had a grad student who was German, but from a German-speaking community in Poland.
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Germans are the biggest minority group living in Poland, about 100K people. But you can barely find them in the region where that photo was taken.
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With this, you have reminded me of a 1982 song by Canadian band Rational Youth called “Saturdays in Silesia” 🙂
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Need to check this one out…
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Very candid photo that came in handy here- nice!
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Thanks a lot!
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You are welcome as ever!
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You have a great eye… what caught your attention the first time you noticed this? Just curious. 😉
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I’ve always had a soft spot for any traces of the past human activities. I’m especially interested in all the remains of lives of people (nations) that no longer live in a given area (see one of my previous posts here:https://mothergrogan.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/gone-and-forgotten/ ). I noticed this cover for the first time 3 years ago, but I didn’t have a camera with me. This year I managed at last to take this photo. It’s all in it: magnificent craft, the language no one uses there anymore, the shape of letters long forgotten…
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Touché! I knew you’d do something witty… love your photo. 😉
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Thank you Elisabeth! Always at your service 🙂
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