Corrected version 8.7.2025: After I scanned and shared the photos from a little album from Dörndorf, Kreis Frankenstein, Silesia, and mentioned that many of the photos are showing a major road building project which appears to have happened near that village, I thought I could actually identify the road that is in statu nascendi in the pictures.
It was based on the little church appearing in some of the road building pictures looking exactly like the one in Dörndorf, so I wrote a whole blog entry about how the photos matched up to the course of one specific road. As that entry went live on March 23, I idly returned to the tab where I had google street view open, which I had used to stroll through the village virtually, and decided to follow the road out of the village and find the spot from where that key photo was taken. It turned out that spot didn't exist and the landscape didn't match, so the church in the photo must have been a different one. I had to very quickly take that blog entry offline again. I now think it is the very similar church of Byczeń (German: Baitzen), in which case the road would be today's DW382. Note that the photo at the top of the previous blog entry on the Dörndorf album does in fact show the Dörndorf church, as we can read the name of the village on the road sign marking the entrance to the village.
Just for the historical record (and to preserve all those links I had included), here are the photos and comments from my original entry - bear in mind that all geographic assignments below are probably wrong and I'm still trying to find out where the other photos were taken. .
First, check this photo (no. 42) - in the background you can see the little church of Dörndorf:
Then we have another one with an overlapping view, as the white house on the hill on the right of the photo above appears on the left in the photo below:
See also photos No. 39, offering a similar view, and 11, extending the view to the left.
So we get a reasonably clear impression that this road is bypassing the village of Dörndorf. The online entry of Mayers Gazeteer includes a map, which at first glance seems to be straightforward google maps, but if you click on it, it shows a historic interactive map with the German placenames. Zoom in further, and at some point it switches to a modern map, showing that the road bypassing the village (now called Plonica) is labelled as number 390, i.e. droga wojewódzka 390, a regional road of 28 km length. Confusingly, the smaller, older road going straigth through the village also has the same number. The newer version of the road 390 is a pretty straight north-south axis. Southwards, it leads to the nearby town of Reichenstein (Zloty Stok). Northwards, it crosses the river Neisse before it reaches Kamenz (Camenz in the old map, now Kamieniec Ząbkowicki).
Incidentally, I only just discovered that from 1900 to 1997 there was also a local railway line linking these three places, but it appears neither in the photos we have nor on the old map. Will have to rave about that separately.
The river is significant, because we have another pair of photos showing a similar view, once of the road under construction, and once of the same landscape being flooded (check the conspicuous pattern of the trees on the horizon), so we can safely assume that this is near the Neisse (because the southern reach of the road leads towards more mountainous areas near the Czech border):
There are also a couple of photos of buildings by the riverside, which could be in or near Kamenz: No. 33, No. 34, as well as further photos of flooded landscapes.
The album also includes views of the road builders in the hillier landscapes further south, such as:
which were in the earlier parts of the album, so we're getting the impression that the road was built south to north.
As mentioned in the first blog entry, photo 21 identifies the road building company Hugo Jaensch, from Jauer:
I think there may be further revelations to be drawn from these photos, so this may well become a series ...
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