The area is named after a medieval convent hospital (The Hospital of the Holy Spirit). It was demolished in 1616 when new city fortifications were built.

It is not a section of Hamburg, it is just a space where we have fun fair three times a year "Dom". This location is west of the city center. We have a second flack tower which is in the south. Both should cover attacks to the harbour and the city center, from plains comming from the west or the south.

Yeah ! A very nice place for me !! 👻

Gotta add to that. Its named after the Hospital zum Heiligen Geist, or hospital of the holy ghost, which was established in the early 13th century and still exists today, even though not in its original location. The heiligengeistfeld used to be part of the original hospitals estate. I live about 10km away from it

A gun is not a ship...

@@danytalloen he is talking about the new 1/700 scale ships Takom are releasing

been to a concert in one of the flaktowers. the atmosphere is something else both inside and when standing infront of it

It would be amazing if they actually did... this is only the visible part, the more interesting part that would actually make it a model I would buy is not there....

sorry, I posted this at the wrong location

Haha! Same here. Maybe you can turrent on or off?

Almost, in this case Geist, although the same word, means Spirit. Heiliger Geist is the religious Holy Spirit. Andy's pronunciation was not bad at all.

That would be very cool - I've seen a 1/350 model cross section of a USN aircraft carrier w/ interior details

@@Bryan-cs9to Yeah, ive seen that too. I actually got some books on the Bismark that show a cutaway of the main turrets, but my scratch building is nowhere near good enough for something like that.

Totally agree with you there. All of these turret kits could have easily has interiors as part of the kit. Even just the gun breaches that could have been seen through an open door, would have been cool.

IIRC, there are a few of the towers still standing in Berlin and Vienna... mostly, they are barricaded shut, in order to keep the curious from getting injured inside. The towers that still stand are considered to be just too difficult to demolish, and too politically sensitive to convert into museums according to my sources. Rather grotesque reminders of bad times in the past.

@@chemech The ones in Berlin all are demolished; of the big flak tower on the "Humboldthain", you still can see one third, or half; the rest crumbled and was artificially overgrown. I know of one round shaped flak tower in Vienna; it is large, but not as large as the rectangular shaped ones in Germany. Best regards, Jens

Lol I was thinking that myself the other day. Imagine the cost of a static model 1:1.

Yeah What He Said 👍👍

Is it possible that the reason there are more German than American kits being released is that ... 1. The Nazis did it or 2. The World is bigger than the US 3. German kit is prettier than US kit 4. People who like American kit keep getting called Nazis for being patriotic? Funny old world, ain't it?

Egyenes, that really is a dumb post. The 88mm or higher armed panzers were killing machines and rightly greatly feared. Also, you'll have a hard time hitting a Tiger on the Eastern front with a Mark 38 turret...

@@xRepoUKx My point: everybody think that those tank guns were the pinnacle of artillery technology. Nope, they were far away from it. Even the WWI battleship artillery systems were superior to them. Tanks were unable to hit anything from other then full stop, even if that thing was 1-200 m away. Battleship artillery optimized for high speed engagements, where all the participants constantly moving, rocking, faster then any tank of their time. And they still can hit 1-200 m long and 35 m wide targets from 25-30 km. Ground artillery can't achieved this before the 1970s with stationary platforms and targets. The firecontrol systems of the american battleships in WWII was so far ahead of their time, when in the 1980s they reactivated the Iowa-class they decided to keep them. Simply because any then existing modern firecontrol systems were worse then the WWII naval gunnery ones. If they want to do better they whould need to shove a supercomputer to somewhere on the ship, and nothing guaranteed that it will perform in those conditions. And the Mk 1 firecontrol computer was an electro-mechanical, analogue computer. In the age of naval guns, naval artillery were the undisputed king of any kind of artillery. Those schweres panzer abteilungs went to Normandie in their mind that they are invulnerable to anything the western allies can throw on them. Well, when the two worlds collided, the Tigers were only supporting actors, or played even lesser roles in that movie. You think Hitler daydreamed the Ratte for nothing? Those thing would use the decommissioned turrets from the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. You are right, there were no Mk 38 turrets in the russian front. But they had heavy artillery pieces made from 8" cruiser guns. And later they even built some 16" and 16.1" SPGs, those used guns from abandoned battleship projects.

@@I_Don_t_want_a_handle 2. Yes, and the world is much, much bigger then Germany ever was. Still 70% of the model kits are WWII german ones. You can call it overrepresentation. 3. Not necesseraly. 4. What has it done with patriotism? Most of the germans still feel the collective guilt about WWII and the nazi regime. The WWII model kits have one of the smallest markets in Germany. BTW: german tank technology was so advanced, that nothing were carry over by others. Their tanks were a collection of technological deadends. Everything they invented in that department were abandoned.

@@egyeneskifli7808 I was not being entirely serious but ...