Alfred and Jochen in a lovely beach chair
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The strandkorb - beach chair - is said to have been invented in
1882 by German basketmaker Wilhelm Bartelmann in Rostock
on request of a tourist from Warnemünde. In 1883, he announced
the first rental service in a local newspaper. The first models were
single seaters and appeared quickly on other parts of the German
coast. Thomas Mann refers to strandkorbs (using the words Sitzkorb
and Strandkorb) in his 1901 novel Buddenbrooks, setting the context
in the 1840s on the beach at Travemünde. It is possible that he had
his historical context wrong, though that would seem unlikely
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Please, go to Bartelmann's website and read more
Photo from early 1900s
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The strandkorb - beach chair - is said to have been invented in
1882 by German basketmaker Wilhelm Bartelmann in Rostock
on request of a tourist from Warnemünde. In 1883, he announced
the first rental service in a local newspaper. The first models were
single seaters and appeared quickly on other parts of the German
coast. Thomas Mann refers to strandkorbs (using the words Sitzkorb
and Strandkorb) in his 1901 novel Buddenbrooks, setting the context
in the 1840s on the beach at Travemünde. It is possible that he had
his historical context wrong, though that would seem unlikely
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Please, go to Bartelmann's website and read more
Photo from early 1900s
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2 comments:
Varför finns det inga sådana längre?
Ja, man ser dem aldrig på danske strande....!
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