50 Wonderful Color Snapshots Documented Daily Life of West Germany in the Late 1950s

   

These wonderful photos were taken by a member of Huebner family that documented the daily life of West Germany in 1958 in a trip to Europe.

Autobahn bridge over the Lahn River, Limburg an der Lahn, 22 June 1958

 

 
 
Bamberg, West Germany, 29 June 1958

 

 
Bingerbrück and Bingen am Rhein with Rüdesheim in the background across the Rhine, June 1958

 

 
Bombed-out building in Munich, 21 or 22 July 1958

 

 
BP service station in Stuttgart, July 1958

 

 

 
Building in Goslar, 26 June 1958

 

Building in Stuttgart, 25 July 1958

 

 
Burg Katz above St. Goarshausen, along the Rhine River, June 1958

 

Ehrenbreitstein Castle along the Rhine River, June 1958

 

German boy with goat, Soest, 25 June 1958

 

German schoolchildren somewhere in the Rhineland, West Germany, 24 June 1958

 

German schoolchildren somewhere in the Rhineland, West Germany, 24 June 1958

 

Half-timbered buildings, Soest, 25 June 1958

 

Haystacks somewhere in the Rhineland, June 1958

 

Haystacks somewhere in the Rhineland, June 1958

 

Man demonstrating the height of the grain in a field somewhere in the Rhineland, 24 June 1958

 

Minster in Ulm, West Germany, 23 July 1958

 

Mittnachtbau Building on Königstraße Street, Stuttgart, 25 July 1958

 

Modernist building in Stuttgart, July 1958

 

Modernist post office in Stuttgart, 26 July 1958

 

Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, 23 July 1958

 

Nymphenburg Palace, Munich, 23 July 1958

 

Pedestrians in Goslar, 26 June 1958

 

Postwar reconstruction of the New Palace (Neues Schloss), Stuttgart, July 1958

 

Pouring a glass of apple juice by a field somewhere in the Rhineland, 24 June 1958

 

Roadway somewhere between Soest and Goslar, 25 or 26 June 1958

 

Rural scenery somewhere in the Rhineland, 24 June 1958

 

Schulstraße, Germany's first pedestrian zone, Stuttgart, July 1958

 

Schulstraße, Germany's first pedestrian zone, Stuttgart, July 1958

 

Soest, West Germany, 25 June 1958

 

Somewhere in Bavaria, 19 July 1958

 

Street in Goslar, 26 June 1958

 

Street scene in Bamberg, June 1958

 

Street scene with horse-drawn cart in Goslar, 26 June 1958

 

The bombed-out New Palace (Neues Schloss) and gardens, Stuttgart, 25 July 1958

 

The Breuninger department store, Stuttgart, 25 July 1958

 

The Collegiate Church (Stiftskirche), Stuttgart, 25 July 1958

 

The East Gate, Soest, 25 June 1958

 

The Heidelberg University library, Heidelberg, 21 June 1958

 

The Neckar River and Heidelberg Castle from the top of the Königstuhl, Heidelberg, 21 June 1958

 

The New Palace (Neues Schloss) and gardens, Stuttgart, July 1958

 

The town hall in Munich, July 1958

 

The Wiesenkirche, Soest, 25 June 1958

 

The Wiesenkirche, Soest, 25 June 1958

 

Traffic in Munich, July 1958

 

View of the Neckar River and Heidelberg, 21 June 1958

 

View of the Rhine and Heidelberg Castle from the top of the Königstuhl, Heidelberg, 21 June 1958

 

Wagon with sugar beets in Bavaria, July 1958

 

Weinhaus (Wine House) Schultes, from 1657, Limburg an der Lahn, 22 June 1958

 

 
Woman in the Mercedes 180D somewhere along the Rhine River, 24 June 1958


(Photos from Huebner Family Photos)