Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Dezember 7, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
… ein Wahrzeichen der Stadt Fürth (Bayern). Fertig gestellt wurde das italienisch anmutende Rathaus im Jahre 1850. Der Architekt Friedrich Bürklein nahm für den Turm denjenigen des Palazzo Vecchio in Florenz zum Vorbild.
Nach Einbruch der Dunkelheit wird das Rathaus von Lichterketten illuminiert – eine geradezu prototypisch-einfache Form der Gebäudeillumination, die sich deutlich von den modernen [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am September 24, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
The Castle Lichtenberg is located near Thallichtenberg in the district of Kusel in Rhineland-Palatinate.
It was built around 1200 and was owned since then by the counts of Veldenz and by the dukes of Palatinate-Zweibrücken. With a length of 425 m it is the biggest castle ruin of Germany.
The castle was never conquered or destroyed by [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am September 23, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
The Atomium is a monument built for the Expo ‘58 ( Brussels World’s Fair 1958). Designed by André Waterkeyn, it is 102-metres tall, with nine steel spheres connected by tubes. Tubes which connect the spheres along the 12 edges of the cube and all eight vertices to the centre enclose escalators connecting the spheres which [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am August 15, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
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Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am August 14, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
The Löwendenkmal (Lion Monument), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The American writer Mark Twain (1835–1910) praised the sculpture of a mortally-wounded lion as [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks, Mittelrheintal am Januar 2, 2008 | Kommentar schreiben »
„The Loreley is a rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine near St. Goarshausen, which soars some 120 meters above the water line. It marks the narrowest part of the river between Switzerland and the North Sea. A very strong current and rocks below the waterline have caused many boat accidents there. Loreley is [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am September 21, 2007 | 1 Kommentar »
Empirische Studien in einer sich verändernden WeltStudienobjekt:Wertheim Village
Angewandte Methode:Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Untersuchungszeitraum:1. August 2007,11.15 –14.35
Rahmenbedingungen: Ein Sommertag
Auf der A3 zwischen Frankfurt und Würzburg, am Rande des Spessarts, leitet uns die Ausfahrt „Gewerbegebiet auf dem Almosenberg, Wertheim Village“ direkt zu unserem Studienobjekt. Nein, wir müssen erst am MacDonalds vorbei. Aha, denke ich, hier treffen sich also reiche Geizhälse, [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks, Wiesbaden am August 26, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
Near Eltville at the Rhine in the Rheingau is the former former Cistercian monastery, Eberbach Abbey. Because of its Romanesque architecture and early Gothic buildings, it belongs to one of the most significant architectural heritage sites in Hesse Germany. Eberbach Abbey was very successful economically, principally as a result of profits from the cultivation of [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Juni 12, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
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Waverly Station, North bridge, South Bridge, School of GeoSciences (Drummond Street), Blackwell’s Bookshop, Jeffrey Street, Market Street, Cockburn Street, High Street, Princes Street, Waverly Bridge, Waterloo Place
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Mai 28, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
The Cologne Zoological Garden features over 7,000 animals of more than 700 species on more than 20 hectares. It is one of the oldest zoos in Germany; today it is internationally renowned with an attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit and it has an emphasis on primates such as bonobos and lemurs, and is active in [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Mai 28, 2007 | 2 Kommentare »
The chocolate-fountain is located in the Chocolate Museum (Imhoff-Stollwerck Museum) – and it is in a good condition.
I have never heard of the Chocolate museum before Cologne 06.07. And I don’t know exactly how it qualifies as a place to visit on our first day. Suddenly it became an issue, not least because of the [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Mai 21, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
The official emblem of the city Kaiserslautern displays a fish, a pike. Once before the river Lauter was overbuilt, it flew through the city and the people used the clean water to dispose fishponds. Because the fishponds were dried up, the visitors now could wonder about the fish in the emblem. But before they have [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Mai 14, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
This is the outer wall of the greenhouse from the Botanical Garden. Definitely, the botanical garden is worth an extensive visit. For me it was the highlight.
Erlangen is a German city in Middle Franconia. Since 1974 it has more than 100.000 inhabitants. Together with Nürnberg and Fürth it constitutes a city network, which is [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am Mai 1, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
May Day refers to various socialist and labor movement celebrations – in Germany ‘Tag der Arbeit‘. That means, because you don’t have to work that day, you could stay at home, watch television and drink beer the whole day. It’s not allowed to work hard. But, because May Day is not a Sunday, it’s not [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am April 11, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
The Leienberg near Hinzweiler, administrative community Kusel) is the biggest ‘Blockschutthalde’ in Rhineland-Palatinate. It consists of Rhyolithe. Vegetation (trees): oaks (Quercus petraea), larchs (Larix decidua), pines (c.f. Pinus nigra) maples (Acer pseudoplatanus) spruces (Picea abies). For herbal plants it was too early, except for Helleborus foetidus. But Rumex scutatus, Polygonatum odoratum, Vincetoxicum hirundinaria and Anthericum [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am April 11, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
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natural monument, pilgrimage route (the route of St. James in Rhineland-Palatinate, see for example http://www.swr.de/fmh/archiv/2004/02/03/sehenswertes.html)
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am April 1, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
Steckeschläferklamm (‘Klamm’ = flume, ravine) in the Forest near Bingen on the Rhine
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am März 30, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
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„On Foot through two Millennia“ – Member of the Most Ancient European Towns Network, Nibelungen sage-city, late-romanesque St. Peter’s Cathedral (with the cathedrals of Mainz and Speyer one of the three ‘imperial cathedrals’ on the Rhine), Fountain of the Wine-Growers (‘Winzerbrunnen’), well-fortified city-wall (with the Nibelungen museum), Rhine riverside, Rhine Bridge (‘Nibelungenbrücke’) with Bridge-Tower, Hagen [...]
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am März 18, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
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46 mm medium precipitation in March, central station, Münchener Straße, Untermainkai, Fahrtor, Römer, Schirn Kunsthalle, Karmelitergasse, Hauptwache
Veröffentlicht in Landmarks am März 12, 2007 | Kommentar schreiben »
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Taunusanlage, Financial District, Main Tower with viewing platform (200 m, „the most visitor-friendly skyscraper in ‘Mainhattan’ – because unlike just about all the other high-rise office blocks in this city on the banks of the River Main, the public is welcome here. If you want to try this out for yourself, you will find that [...]
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