NAMELESS THOROUGHFARES
Mannheim, one of the most beautiful and interesting cities in Germany— beautiful because of a wealth of artistic buildings, interesting for its art treasures its theatre, and its industry—has a special claim to attention, in that it is a city without street names, at least not' in the old part, with the exception of a few boulevards. It is a city of geometrical squares. Coehorn, the Dutch general and fortification builder, who planned the city, drew a circle and divided it into squares. Each square was designated by a letter, A to K in the western, and L to U in the eastern part. Further designations were by figures, so that one finds such addresses as "N 7, 8, Mannheim," which means that the addressee lives in house No. 8, 7th N block.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 252, 24 October 1932, Page 5
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