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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
This is also the emblem of the city known Kurhaus Baden-Baden is famous for its guests, especially the lower right wing-to-find game bank and the Kurhaus Restaurant in the lower left wing. The unique ambiance of the Kurhaus Baden Baden but offers much more, so are the many conferences, seminars, conferences and lectures and presentations, in addition to bring the numerous celebrations of all kinds, Kurhaus Baden-Baden, a cultural center of the city .
With 1000 square meters the largest room in this imposing building, which was created by the “architect of the classical” Friedrich Weinbrenner, is the largest to Baden Baden, designated patrons Bénazet beautiful room. Find a suitable venue for your wedding or birthday celebration, the prices for the rooms range from 250 EUR for the Upper Foyer up to 3350 EUR for the Bénazet room. There are no exact information is available from the baths and spa management. (more…)
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Vogtsbauenhof in Gutach: The Black Forest Open Air Museum in Gutach gives parents and children illustrate 400 years of history in the Black Forest. The families travel to the time of their great-grandmothers and fathers to do their arduous daily life at first hand. In mid-December, the museum opens for the Christmas market and holiday program.
A tour through the Black Forest Open Air Museum in Gutach take the family for a time travel.
In the Black Forest Open Air Museum in Gutach know the children, for example, as previously woven clothes, carved spoons and bowls, or the grain was ground. You will marvel at the generous space for storage of bread, bacon and cabbage, which made a life without refrigerators and the first back-burning and the house where the farmers bake 30-40 loaves in one pass could. (more…)
Tags: bacon and cabbage, black forest, cattle breeds, earlier times, german country, grandma and grandpa, holiday program, huge cock, lamp fuel, miserable existence, museum, parents and children, sheep goats, time travel
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
“In the north-west of the country between wooded hills and small hidden lakes, the great Cistercian monastery Maulbronn. Large, firm and well preserved are the beautiful old buildings and would be a tempting place of residence, because they are gorgeous, inside and out, and they are in the centuries, with its quiet beautiful natural grown together elegant and intimate. Who wants to go to the convent, passes through a picturesque, the high wall opening door to a wide and very quiet place running. A fountain there, and there are ancient, solemn trees there and on both sides and old stone houses and solid at the back of the front page called the main church with a late Romanesque porch, paradise in a graceful, charming beauty beyond compare. ”
As idyllic as Hermann Hesse in his novel “Beneath the Wheel” Maulbronn has described the Cistercian monastery still presents the visitor. The intoxicating effect of the ascetic Cistercian architecture, we can only escape is difficult. For the Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse, who – as Johannes Kepler and Friedrich Hölderlin before it – has visited the Protestant monastery school of Maulbronn, school life, despite the beautiful surroundings but a pain: After a few months fled Hesse in the spring of 1892 from which he hated, yet existing school today. (more…)
Tags: abbeys, alsatian, benedictine monastery, cistercian monastery, friedrich hölderlin, hermann hesse, monastery maulbronn, monastery school, nobel laureate hermann, noise and clamor, old buildings, quiet place, religious ideal, stone houses
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Friday, May 21st, 2010
The former Palatine residence with the euphonious name of Heidelberg stands not only for the world famous Heidelberg Castle, but also for the beautiful old town. Heidelberg has now become a scientific and economic location in Germany. In addition, the city boasts the only way, with its historic streets and the Ruprecht-Karls-University, as Germany’s oldest university town with many beautiful and ancient bridges, the famous St. Peter’s and the castle park. The city now enjoys an international reputation and has a lively cultural scene, which is also designed very versatile.
Each year it attracts more people under the spell of the university town and this is certainly not just the students who come to all parts of the world, but the attractiveness of the city of Heidelberg. Very popular stopping off in Heidelberg is the venerable Hotel Zum Ritter.
The city looks back on 800 years of history, a testimony of this is certainly the Holy Spirit Church in Heidelberg, which should definitely be on the visitors from the town.
Heidelberg climatically and geologically considered, is a very large subject, but can generally be regarded as a very young landscape and designated. Heidelberg is located in the so-called Upper Rhine Valley between Mainz and Basel. This trench is lowered below particularly from Heidelberg. The so-called Heidelberg hole is one of the drops
Tags: ancient bridges, castle, castle park, city of heidelberg, economic location, euphonious name, heidelberg castle, holy spirit church, international reputation, landscape, old town, oldest university, ruprecht karls, upper rhine valley
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Rarely has a building disappeared caused such a topical debate. A first version, built on the island of Cölln in central Berlin, was built in the eleventh century and razed to a quarrel between two Counts of Hohenzollern. A second version is built in the fifteenth century under the reign of Frederick III. Enlarged in the sixteenth century under the reign of Joachim II by the architect Caspar Theiss who adopts a square courtyard, with a gabled roof and a corner tower, the memorial takes on the air live. In 1698, Andreas Schlüter who resumed the work direction and finally in 1850, the dome of the chapel was added by Friedrich August Stüler the reign of Frederick IV. The Hohenzollern family occupied the castle until the end of the Empire in 1918. On 9 November the same year, from the balcony of the castle, Karl Liebknecht proclaimed the Socialist Republic free, marking the beginning of an exciting destiny. WWII irreversibly damage the

castle, before he blasted way by the Communists in 1950. They replaced it with the Palast der Republik, a monumental building of metal, marble and smoked glass that houses the House of the People, and inaugurated by Honecker in 1976.
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