Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. In the first half of the film, the footage runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther Leitz (1914-1969...
Bathing in the Lahn River Men in swimming trunks jump one after the other from a wooden jetty into the Lahn. From the second half on, the shot runs backwards. The film ends with a close-up of Günther...
The Flood of Wetzlar 1920 The Wetzlar Flood Disaster of 1920. The film shows the old Lahn Bridge at high water and a view from the bridge down the river. The street Am Mühlgraben is flooded. In the L...
Arrival of returning German POWs at Wetzlar train station. The soldiers are greeted at the station by a crowd of people. Since the train is arriving from the direction of Cologne, it can be assumed th...
French Prisoners of War II - Belgian Civilian Prisoners of War Since the 1910s, Oskar Barnack, the inventor of the Leica, has captured events around Wetzlar on film with his self-constructed film came...
Carnival in Wetzlar in 1914. At the beginning of the film the council of eleven introduce themselves, you see people with umbrellas, probably after the parade has ended. The guardsmen come out under t...
Views of the Rhineland-Palatinate health resort. Barnack filmed the spa garden and the left bank development with water tower and the legendary hotel Balmoral, where Richard Wagner resided. In the bac...
Rowing Regatta (Imperial Regatta) Documentation of the International Regatta of the Frankfurter Regatta-Verein e.V. on 31 May/1 June 1914 at Deutschherrnkai in Frankfurt am Main. The film shows races ...
Oskar Barnack