Magdeburg 1989/90 and 2005/06: Heavy machinery construction-collective combine, "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET) in Magdeburg [7/12]
Werner Klapper photographed sites in Magdeburg in 1989/90. 15 years later he photographed them again from the same perspective, using the same lens and focal distance.
Original Caption
"In 1989, roughly 30,000 people are busy in the 18 works of Schwermaschinenbaukombinat SKET, including Works #16, the iron foundry and machining shop between Sandbreite and Karl-Schmidt-Straße." (from: Stadt im Wandel. Magdeburg zwischen 1990 und 2006, in vergleichenden Fotografien von Werner Klapper, 2. Aufl., Magdeburg: Ost-Nordost Verlag 2007)