To go to the Railway Station and to the Post Office (the two buildings are in front of each other), we must take the Railway Station Street. The Station Avenue, as it was called before 1870, has been created in 1848 to link the Station to Main Street. We are here at the beginning of the street. Gas lighting has already been installed. The restaurant Friedel (left) is been delivered with wine into large barrels. Today it is called the hotel-restaurant Chez Jean. In the background, in the centre line of the street, you can see the Station. A little further on the left, in the building that housed formerly the ancient Post Office, there was the Metzger & Weil Shop, which was selling a curious variety of bicycles (Terrot), sewing machines, automobiles and trucks (Berliet), prams, aso... This shop and the entire building have been transformed a few years ago into an hotel (Europe Hotel). We're now crossing the bridge over the Mühlbach, which was leading the water of the river Zorn to the municipal mill. The great chimney on the right is the chimney of the electricity factory, which has been pulled down. In the middle of the street, we are crossing the river Zorn (the view is taken towards the point where we come from). Notice the statue on the column on the right. It is called the "Hora". We've already seen it in the Latouche Square where it will be placed in 1908. Along the river, in the background on the right, there is one of the buildings of the Old Hospital. Next page [Back to start] [The middle city] [The River Zorn] [The Canal] © Thierry Heitmann - 1997-2001