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[patjakub]

Hello folks.

I am Patrick. Born in Wrzeszcz (Langfuhr) to parents who were born in Gdansk and Torun. I can speak English and Polish. Unfortunately I cannot speak German. I can read this forum in German -> English Google Translator. When German text is properly formed translation is quite good as those two languages are similar.

I have always been interested in the past of Danzig before 1945. I have been frustrated that I have never met anyone who has lived in Danzig. Now I have found this forum and I am amazed that I have found you.

I have been thinking what can I do for the community. I found reasonable to post current pictures of Gdansk. Also for a request. I am passionate photographer capable of pro-like photography.

See attached example:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohes_Tor_(Danzig)

Best regards.

[patjakub]

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I don't know how good it looks but this is how Google translates my post to German language.


Hallo, ich bin neu hier und habe Fotos zu machen
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Hallo Leute.

Ich bin Patrick. In Wrzeszcz (Langfuhr), um Eltern, die in Danzig und Thorn geboren wurden geboren. Ich Englisch und Polnisch sprechen. Leider kann ich nicht Deutsch sprechen. Ich kann in diesem Forum auf Deutsch zu lesen -> Englisch Google Translator. Wenn deutsche Text richtig gebildete Übersetzung ist recht gut, wie diese beiden Sprachen ähnlich sind.

Ich war schon immer interessiert in der Vergangenheit von Danzig vor 1945 habe ich frustriert, dass ich noch nie jemanden in Danzig gelebt hat, erfüllt sind. Jetzt habe ich in diesem Forum gefunden haben, und ich bin erstaunt, dass ich dich gefunden.

Ich habe darüber nachgedacht, was kann ich für die Gemeinschaft zu tun. Ich fand sinn aktuelle Bilder von Danzig buchen. Auch für eine Anfrage. Ich bin leidenschaftlicher Fotograf in der Lage, pro-wie Fotografie.

Siehe beigefügte Beispiel:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohes_Tor_(Danzig)

Mit besten Grüßen.

[waldkind]

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[FONT=Verdana]Hello patjakub,[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]very thanks for presenting you.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Your English is the very best for understanding you. But google-translater for the German-Language is one of the best joke I have ever seen. So if you want to make joke take google-translater. But if you want our understanding take your English.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Very thanks for your nice picture of the High-Porta. I am sure, many of us are interested in your photography-art. May be you will show us one about „Ohra“. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Unforunately I can not write here without problems. It is a pity. But I like your picture and I like reading English.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]Wish you have fun here and best regards[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana]woodchild[/FONT]

[Beate]

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Hallo Patrick,

herzlich willkommen im Forum! Danke schön für Deine nette Vorstellung. Du wirst merken, die Sprache wird kein Hindernis sein, das schaffen wir schon!
Und über Danzig von früher- da wirst Du bestimmt hier viel erfahren können!
Sehr schön, dass Du gern fotografierst- Bilder sind hier immer höchst willkommen.

Viel Spaß hier!

Hallo Patrick,

hearty welcome in our Forum. Nice to read your introduction, I think, language will not form an obstacle, we'll work it out somehow.

Danzig before 1945- I think you may hear/read about that time here quite a lot.
And really fine to know, your passion is to take pictures- we like to look at them!

So have a nice time here!

Schöne Grüße Beate

[Wolfgang]

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Hi Patrick,

fine that you've found our forum and that you've passed all the difficult registration processes. Sorry, but that's part of our defence strategy against spammers

I was wondering that you've never met anybody who has lived in the former Danzig. Still today you can find them, the old Danzigers, from Langfuhr too, living in today's Gdańsk. One of the best addresses to get in contact with them is the German Minority in the ul.Waryńskiego in Wrzeszcz.

My mother, born in Wrzeszcz too, does not speak Polish, and it's a pity that also her English is very poor. She could tell you a lot about the former life and the customs at this time. A couple of years ago she went back to her "Heimat", to her "mała ojczyzna", and now we are living in Przemysław, just east of the Wisła in the neighbourship of Drewnica.

With best wishes from Żuławy
Wolfgang

[Inge-Gisela]

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Hello Patrick,
welcome! You speak English and Polish. But where are you living? Not only Gdańsk, also Toruń is a nice city. Have you been there, too?

Best regards,
Inge-Gisela

[Bartels]

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Cześć Patrick,

it is fine that you have joined our Forum Danzig. -

My father was born in Langfuhr / Wrzeszcz (ul.Waryńskiego), where his parents had been living for 50 years (40 years in ul. Saperow). My grandfather had been more than 40 years shipbuilding engineer at the Schichau yards.

It would be great to have an up-to-date photo of the ship in the roof of NBPbank:
our thread on the NBP ship

[patjakub]

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Hello again.

Thank you for your warm welcome.

I have to think about place to store high quality and large size pictures. I would like to somehow link a picture to information (metadata) and to a map of pictured place.

What do you think is the proper way to name places like streets, buildings or areas? Using current Polish names, German, English or combination of German/Polish?

When I don't take a picture for request I will post some pictures too. What sort of photos is most valuable for you? I think the Rathaus, the Krantor or Marien Kirche is so popular that it is easy to find one on the Internet. What about traces of an old Danzig like shop signs? There are few. Are you interested in usual places in old areas like Schidlitz. What about modern new areas? Countryside landscapes? Beaches?


waldkind
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I suspected that EN->DE translation is bad. The other way looks better. German language has more complex grammar thus it contains more information in the sentence. English more rely on context and translators are not so smart to build good German sentences. Therefore I will post in English. If some of you don't feel comfortable with answering it in English then answering in German is okay as well.
You have asked about Ohra. I am posting few photos I have taken in last 5 years.

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Beate
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Thank you.


Wolfgang
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The registration process is fine.

I need to contact with German Minority House. I never searched for Danzigers really. I just asked questions about ancestors some people I suspected he/she could be the Danziger. My suspection relied on family name which was German name. For example Schulz, Rosenfeld, Jetke. Some of them were Kashubians.

Has your mother a noble ancestry? I thought that most Danzigers were bilingual. Perhaps not. It is interesting that she moved back to Gdansk/Zulawy. It is nice that you enjoy your place near Wisla.


Inge-Gisela
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I live in Gdansk, Orunia Gorna. Orunia Gorna is modern area ca. 1990. Located on moraine hill, west of Orunia. On the other side of Hoene's Park Orunski. Beside of simmilar name it has little in common with the Orunia. On map from 1918 it is unnamed area with hills between Schoenfeld, Altdorf and Ohra.

I have been to Torun when I was a child. Have to visit again.


Bartels
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I have been living in Wrzeszcz my first 26 years of life. Ul. Warynskiego and ul. Saperow was my daily route. Also some of my childhood friends have lived there.

I will take a photo of the ship and whole NBP building.
Also I would take photos of a place if you identify it on present maps.

I did quick research if Breitgasse 64 is now ul. Szeroka 64. It is very likely I can identify the building. I found that Breitgasse 52 is now ul. Szeroka 52/54. Also next to Krantor.


Greetings from Gdansk

[Wolfgang]

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Hello Patrick,

you wrote "Has your mother a noble ancestry? I thought that most Danzigers were bilingual. Perhaps not."

No, although I can go back my roots to the beginning of the 17th century I didn't find any noble ancestors

Danzigers bilingual? Some yes, most not. But, of course, most of the Polish Danzigers spoke Polish and German.

With best regards,
Wolfgang

[Felicity, Ehrenmitglied +20.5.2024]

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Dear Patrick ! Welcome on the Forum. I am Felicity, born 1927 in Danzig and now living in Australia. After the war I migrated with my family. I spent all my childhood and teenage years in Danzig and only left it in 1945. I still have friends in my hometown and I have visited Gdansk several times in the past years. I hope we will hear from you a lot in the future. Kind regards, Felicity

[Ulrich 31]

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Hello Patrick:

Wellcome! Thank you very much for your kind willingness to take a photo of the ship at the NBP building. Please take a special telephoto of the figurehead in addition. It's very important for our diskussion regarding this. - Many thanks in advance.

Greetings from Berlin
Ulrich

[Marc Malbork]

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Hello Patrick,

[FONT=Calibri]quote: "I have to think about place to store high quality and large size pictures. I would like to somehow link a picture to information (metadata) and to a map of pictured place."[/FONT]

I think the "Picasa"- software, which seems to be part of Google+, perfectly fits into your bunch of critieria.
My first choice now is "flickr". But there you have no such easy way to create maps.

e.g.:

https://picasaweb.google.com/regideur/MarienburgPolen2012#

That's part of my Picasa account, but I am no member of Google+. On flickr look for "Marc Malbork" .

[FONT=Calibri]Quote: " ... proper way to name places ..."

[/FONT]Polish. Only in the case you do know the old german name it would be fine if you could put it perhaps in brackets thereafter. Or the other way round.

[FONT=Calibri]Quote: "... What sort of photos is most valuable for you? ... "

[/FONT] First of all, please feel free to show us the Gdansk y o u like. Those photos will always be the best ones.

Best regards,
Marc

[Felicity, Ehrenmitglied +20.5.2024]

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Marc, you are right. Picasa, is also part of Google + and my son has installed it on my computer. I am so happy with it and send pictures all over Australia and Europe. Just don't know how to sent them to Foren. That is why you did not get pictures from Australia. Have to find out how to do it. Liebe Gruesse von der Feli

[Inge-Gisela]

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Hello Patrick,
Your foto of the old "smithy" (ul. goscinna 12) in Orunia is for me a nice surprise. 2 years ago I was there, but as you know - I am sure - it is renovated and a pretty Café. Until approx. 1930 my grandparents lived in that street Hauptstr. 25 - Café Kirschberger (today goscinna 4 - music school). For that reason the elder photos of Orunia (Ohra) are very interesting for me, however, also the new ones and of course of Danzig in general.
I have seen only a part of Orunia, not yet the modern.

Best greetings
Inge-Gisela

[waldkind]

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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Dear patjakub,[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]thank you for your pictures. I knew, you would make some people happy with them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I like the way you see the coloures and would be glad to follow your impressions during a long time. Of course, I am interested in your view of Orunia, especially Hoene-Park, trees and the little houses of Orunia, moraine hills, sun-rising and all these coloured things ;-) I like the way of your composition.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Best wishes, wood-child.[/FONT]