Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Grätzelhaus at the Goetheallee is the biggest baroque-style building in Göttingen, Germany. It is named after the textile maker Johann Heinrich Grätzel born 1691 who fastly became the most important entrepreneur of the city. It has mighty columns and is decorated with Athena (for science) and Hermes (for trading).
The Göttinger Stadtwall is a former fortification of the city of Göttingen, Germany. At first only a small part of the city center was surrounded by walls – you can still see some parts of the inner zone at the Mauerstraße (‘wall street’). In 1326 the city was allowed to build the today still visible Stadtwall and building it needed 200 years.
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The Alter Stadtfriedhof is the vast former cemetery of Göttingen, Germany. It was created in 1879 at the border to the village Grone which is now a city quarter. It contains wide alleyways, a nice chapel, a lake and many graves of important persons.
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Gut Herbigshagen near Duderstadt, Germany is the headquarters of the Heinz-Sielmann-Stiftung, a nature protection organisation founded in 1994. Their goals are to get children in contact with nature and to protect endangered species. The founder Heinz Sielmann is also buried here. Continue reading “Gut Herbigshagen”
The Tannenkamp is a small mountain with a wonderful forest close to the city quarter Kattenbühl of Hann. Münden, Germany. On top you will find an open-air stage (the Freilichtbühne Tannenkamp) and the best forest to play in – with nice little valleys to explore, mountains to climb and small paths to follow between the trees. Continue reading “Tannenkamp”
The Klusteich or the Klusteiche (the rear one is inaccessible and a protected nature reserve) are lakes near the Schedetal between Volkmarshausen (belonging to Hann. Münden) and Scheden. After parking your car at the Schede river you have to walk some meters into the forest. Continue reading “Klusteich”
It is hard to imagine nowadays but once there was a 6 kilometers long ropeway high above the largest city quarter of Hann. Münden, Germany: the Kattenbühl. The ropeway began near the Kleiner Steinberg, went nearly straight through the forest and ended close to the railway station of Hann. Münden at Schulzenrode. Continue reading “Steinberg-Drahtseilbahn”
The Kleiner Steinberg within the Kaufunger Wald close to Hann. Münden, Germany is a 541 meters high mountain consisting of basalt and brown coal. Both materials were mined there for centuries – until 1961. The old main building is today the Waldpädagogikzentrum Haus Steinberg (an educational facility) and the mining areas now form several small lakes. Continue reading “Kleiner Steinberg”
Close to the Waldpädagogikzentrum Haus Steinberg and not far from the Kleiner Steinberg mountain you can find a medieval wooden village. It exists from 2004 on and is an educational and not archaeological project. School classes can spend a week there, help to construct the village and learn how life was at that time. Continue reading “Mittelalterliches Dorf Steinrode”
The Buddeleichenhütte in Hann. Münden is just a protective hut for hikers high above the city quarter Kattenbühl in the Kaufunger Wald. It might be a target destination for a short walk along the Eselsbach but it is most often a waypoint when continuing via the Fuhrmannstein to the Rinderstall (for some cake and a cup of coffee) or the Hühnerfeld (where you can walk through a swamp on a wooden path). Continue reading “Buddeleichenhütte”