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A City Journal by kschmidt

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CJ will be on european cities and there surrounding. Several cities in varied building stages. Varied time frame, so one can have a 1960-70 or modern era build !

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Europa Anno 3D Cityscape ! Real freedom to wonder around ! Europe Anno the second region visited with this new tool. Some content works, some don´t but it gives a new unique look at my cities from a different perspective ! In this yournal we visit the following cities ! Bern, Dresden, Budapest, Frankfurt, Luzern, Munchen, Prague,Vienna and Zurich ! Bern ! Dresden ! Budapest ! Frankfurt ! Luzern ! Munchen ! Prague ! Vienna ! Zurich ! Hope you enjoyed this alternative 3D View and see you back next time !
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Budapest Magyar !

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Budapest Magyar ! Welcome in the third city in this series ! Budapest as several east european cities breath the air of the orient. Most prominet the large chainbridge, the hungarian parlament and the Keleti Railway station. Impresive landmarks wich if not available be improvised. Magyar is refered to as Hungary the country or the original tribe living in the area descriped. Hope you enjoy this CJ ! Starting a new city always is a big effort, this week have been a very warm one, with tempertures upt 30...
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Frankfurt Rebuild !

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Frankfurt Rebuild ! As last CJ we concetrated on the inner city, now we have a furthur look outside the city and present some of the challenges building a european city with fullsize tain, tram, bus and s bahn network. Some overview´s of the area ! First a continuation of the old town and Bahnhof Frankfurt East ! We go back downtown to see something of the Frankfurt Hbh station quarters ! Frankfurter Tram Bahn Geselschaft old depot ! Some more downtown rail stations ! Frankfurt Messe Bhf with the great...
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Vienna Uptown in die Innenstadt ! This month we make a tour of the Southside of Vienna with Frituren, Simmering and surrounding. Die Insel, Brigittenau and Leopoldstadt ! We start at Wienerberg City a highrise area close to the city ! Frituren modern ! The Amalienbad and Watertower ! Simmering ! Zentral Friedhof ! Simmering old industrial area ! Some neighbouring small stadter ! Vienna´s verkehrsgeselschaft old tramway provide a excelent link to the inner city ! Now we move to the Der Insel, Brigittenau...
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München, Muenchen, Munich HBF Welcom to Munich, fourth city in the Europe ANNO series ! The Third german city; more or less; there will be a fourth one, but that will have to wait for some other scape´s ! Let´s have a look at München HBF, a very nice replacement for such a large structure is Queen Elizabeth station ! Karlsplatz, on a short walk into town ! Famous, Muenchner Frauenkirche and New cityhall ! Odeonplatz Feldherrnhalle and Theaterkirche ! Now we have a look at the surrounding area ! Bayerisch...
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Budapest Kifordítva - Inside out ! Today we continue our tour of Budapest. As promised there will be some nice highlights to see. Despite temperture above 30 dgr I will deliver you some exciting picture´s. As the title sugest we start in the City at the Keleti Railway station and work outward of the city. Let´s start ! State Hungarian Opera ! Some of the newer area´s created ! On left above we have little misplaced Saint Basil´s church, on the right the State Courts and left below probably aswell misplaced...
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Cologne Koeln !

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Cologne - Koeln ! The famous city known fot it´s Léau de cologne has arrived in this series ! As with Frankfurt this city also had suffered a lot in WW2. Fortunaly the masterpiece has been saved from destruction Koeln´s famous landmark the Koelner Dome. Wide array of commercial and non commercial institutes, still in development. Lets have a look ! Koelner Dome and station quarters ! Inner city ! Old University of Applyied Sciene ! Yet we have a look at the Koelner Messe. Aging this is one of the older...
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Cologne Koeln Grũne Gũrtel ! Last month has gone so fast, working on ANNO Holland and ANNO Europe. Resorted to the more inner stadt last time now we again move out to the area of the Aachnerstrasse and the Grune Gũrtel ! ANNO Europe is based in the 60´s, room is spare so there some compromises to be made. Linoa06 info about the equastrian activity has been added in this instalment ! Hope you like it ! Area North of the Aachner strasse oposite the Sport Hochschulle and the Rhein Energy Stadion of FC Koln...
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Praha - prague do města ! Prague into the city. Sorting out sets as well music and literal influence my work like Dvorak and Kafka wich had their residence hear ! Today we cover some outside neighbourhoods of the south of the city and work our way into the right river side center of town ! Nove Vrsovice with the Eden Arena stadium of Slavia Prague foorball club ! Rail stable yards ! Dvorce south west of the center with some business highrise development ! Podoli shopping and medical center ! Praha city...
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Budapest Palota to Gellért-hegy Citadella ! Hungarian quit a entertaining language ! This CJ will be on the Buda side of the river Duna in contrast to the Pest side covered in last CJ´s ! Most prominent is the Buda palace where the former King´s of Hungaria and the Austrian Habsberg resided. We make a tour of the adjacent city quarters of Kelenföld. Last we visit the Citadella where those famous pictures of Budapest where shot ! Buda Palace ! Lot´s of Zig-Zag staircases to get to palace level ! Garden´s...
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Vienna, Donau Stadt & Little Slovakia ! Today we finish our tour of Vienna ! Contrast to the city of Vienna, Donau Stadt is rather more suburban. Little twist some of the slovakia set and coming city is highlited in this CJ. Donau Stadt lays on a closed side stretch of the Donau, conscists of Bruckhaufen, Kaisermuhlen, Floridsdorf and Donau Stadt ! We start at the otherside of the river where we left last time, working our way through north to Bruckhaufen and then go sout via Floridsdorf and Donau stadt !...
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Vienna, Alt Stadt !

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Vienna, Alt Stadt ! We arrived in the sixth city in this series, Vienna ! Some city building fatigue showing, I have set up about most of the town centre and most road, rail and public transport and all mayor highway´s ! Start point as usual is the main railway station, Vienna Hauptbahnhof ! Fortunaly for me I didn´t have to search for the old Sűd Bahnhof. Recently it was replaced by a ultra new run through station so trains don´t have to turn direction if so, with double driver cabs as to today there...
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Vienna, Kultur !

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Vienna, Kultur ! Today, we visit the many landmarks Vienna is famous for ! We start our tour at Schloß Schönbrunn ! Wien West Bhf on the left with the station quarters ! Austrian Parlament building, as mentioned replaced as well below the Universität Technisch Falculty, Votic church and the City hall ! Apropiate the next neighbourhood called Neubau ! Kultur as promised we have a culturea quarters assembledl. Music Verein on the left, Sing Schulle, Gugenheim, Literatur and the Kunst and Nature museum ! Last...
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Muenchen Stern in der Welt ! Muenchen a international city, present on all different levels. This CJ we cover the busines and sport section. The city up to last episode mostly developed on the west side of the Isar. Development boosted and the eastern side got it´s own city scape on the map ! We start at the Maximilanium a building errected for gifted students later used as the Bayerisch Landestag or local state parliament. Ornimental, quit close in shape the Detroit Press Building, restriction road layout...
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Europa ANNO !

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Europa ANNO ! Welcome to my new CJ series. Aim of this series is to depict several european scene´s in differen area´s in changing ages. Accomplish these goals will be difficult, maxis housing and skyscraper need to be blocked. BAT search for the various scene´s will be quit time consuming ! This CJ we start with the 4 Cities region, this consist of the cities of cologne, frankfurt, zurich and budapest; this list maybe extended. Later other region installment may be added to this CJ. Frankfurt am Main as...
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Zürich, herz der Welt ! At least the financiel heart of Switserland, the largest city of the country. Finaly I can show you my imprsion of this city in the last city yournal of this Euro region series. There still some area´s to explore , but these will follow when I like to do so ! We start with a fly by tour of the city. Zürich and the Züricher See and surrounding mountainious area ! Disctict 1 Zürich financial and commercial heart like Manhattan in Newyork distinctive ! ,Zürich Hauphtbahnhof !...
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Budapest Óváros Újváros : Old Town - New Town ! Today we for now sa goodbye to Budapest with a review of Buda Old and New town. Later we return to all cities with a special series ! Old town Mattheus Church with marketplace ! We continue with the Old Hotel - Restaurant district ! Some more Old town ! Now we visit the neighbouring Déli Pályaudvar - South Station Railstation quarters ! University of Budapest ! Quit modern all dust blown away or ? Commercial district and Hotel district ! High rise the latest...
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Bern, der Schweizer Kapital ! This month we first visit the land of watches, chocolate, cheese and beyond ! This month three part "Show us what your building" took some effort away of this CJ build but gives a showcase of what might lies beyond the city building corner; specialy I like to see the grow of the SFBT Bern set wich would be awesome. Landmarks for this city aren´t well available so a lot to research. This map just like the Munchen map covers a imaginative part of the Berner land. Let´s start...
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Pillen Dreher und Mehr ! Pillen Dreher, who or what are they ? Lot´s of new stuff added. Some updates from last CJ to conclude ! Europa ANNO for now is mostly germany with Frankfurt and Cologne soon we will widen our view to cities like Vienna, Prague and even some bigger metropolis will arrive soon. A France ANNO and Germany ANNO have been setup so spreading out my wings over other cities is a possibility ! Let´s answer the question I stated above ! Cologne Koeln area was so wide that with some discretion...
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Dresden & Neustadt Saksischer Schweiz ! At last I can offer you a complete CJ of this amazing city, in the far east of Germany ! Saksischer Schweiz, refer to the relatively high mountains surroundings the city and there even a funiculair upstream at Loschwitz ! Furthur Bautzen has been completed with the railyards and Lobau ! Lobau ! Bautzen ! Now we continue with the main part Dresden - Neustadt ! Neustadt is significly more modern as the old town or what may be eastern German building style, this may be...
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Praha - vývoj času ! Development through time, this is the last chapter in the visit to Praha. Last city vienna gave lots of oppertunities to stretch it longer. Praha long shelved in the refrigerator now is about completed, realizing these cities all square inch maybe covered but this city showed some quit challenging exercies of terra- forming; furthur progres would not do it any justice ! ANNO Europe CJ will return in october, switch will be made to Mayon Province CJ next month ! This CJ we cover the...
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Bazel - Basel !

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Bazel - Basel ! Bazel town on the border of three countries ! Swiss in heart of Europe, business, eductional and cultural heart of Europe. This CJ shows the surrounding area of this great city. Little imagination the area also includes Biel - Bienne at the Bieler See ! Biel - Bienne ! Local & Regional SBB-FFS is doing well serving this town ! Birsfelden business park east of the Bazel city center ! Rosetal with the Bazel Bad railway station north of the city ! St Johan, Novartis campus and industrial area...
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Europa ANNO Christmas Special ! Winter has come to Europa ANNO. Finaly I have the cities in winter look. Some lot´s may not cooperate but most does ! we start in Budapest and make our way to the swiss alps ! For All I´d like to wish you a very well Christmas and Newyear ! Budapest ! Vienna ! Prague ! Muenchen ! Frankfurt ! Koeln ! Bern & Noise ! Last we go to Gstaad ski slopes for a relaxing afthernoon ! Ascending the nice slopes ! Apres Ski at the lodge ! This conclude this special ! Happy christmas and...
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Cologne Koeln Extended ! This time I couldn´t find any other title for this months CJ. ANNO Holland also in development I had to make a choice what to show ! Cheaply I could offer a photo tour of Mayon Province, not doing any justice to this series, ANNO Holland has for BAT´s and other plugins passed the test phase but needs to be furthur worked out; so have another look at Cologne, Koeln in the sixties, that the era we are aiming for with some discretion ! Overlook of the town as far ! As you can see...
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Bern, Erweiterung !

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Bern, Erweiterung ! Last CJ we´v seen some part of the inner city and the sourthern neighbourhood of Kirchenfeld. Now we continue our tour with other parts of the town ! North of the old city center is the neighbourhood of Altenberg, formely there was a railyard this has been replaced with residential and commercial enterprise. Stade de Suise where SC Youngboys and the national team plays. Beyond there´s a industrial area to meet these requirements ! North of the station area ther´s a new suburb Langgasse...
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