The moment I've seen these on the street, two ladies jumped out of a car and grabbed them. I didn't know they were this popular.
- Peter Obermüller
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Scaffolding over Auferstehungskirche
Renovations are taking place
Crime scene of Änne Goldhausen
1929 and 2022
August 12th 1929
On this night Kürten tries to murder 3 people: Anne Goldhausen at Ludwigshafenerstraße12 , then he proceeded to ErkratherStraße 428 and...
The original letters
By Georg and Frieda Lindemeyer at the Heinrich Heine Institute. On te right Georg's handwriting and on the left Frieda's handwriting.
The old cafe Kürten in now Mango
On June 10th 1937 Frieda Lindemeyer sat in cafe Kürten at 48 Schaddowstraße with her friend Ms. Grossmann. Today it's Mango store.
The first "official" murder by Kürten
Although it is probably not the first, this is the crime scene of nine years old Christine Klein who was murdered in her bed in 1913. It...
A sewing machine in Köln
On the way to photograph another crime scene I came across this sewing machine on the ground.
An innocent bench in Volksgarten
This may be te exact bench where Kürten attacked a man and did not succeed in killing him.
Still a fire department
The fire department old building in Münsterstraße, opposite a crime scene from 1913 where Peter Kürten tried to murder the 17 years old...
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