Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Prinzipalmarkt (main market) is the most beautiful street at Münster in Westfalen, Germany. Fortunately it was decided to preserve it after World War II. The street contains many good shops within gabled houses attached directly to each other. Non of these gables looks like an other.
Continue reading “Prinzipalmarkt”
If you pass the Hoher Meißner mountain in northern Hesse, Germany you can enjoy many interesting places. This can be easily recognized by the vast amount of parking areas and signs telling you which way to take to reach nice spots. The Hoher Meißner region really does a lot for tourism and especially for hikers. One beautiful place that doesn’t require a long walk is the Frau-Holle-Teich close to road L3242 between Frankenhain and the viewpoint Schwalbenthal.
Continue reading “Frau-Holle-Teich”
When you’re driving on Bundesstraße 7 between Kassel and Eschwege, Germany you might spot a sepulchral chapel in the forest. Finding the path to this place close to Hessisch Lichtenau isn’t easy but worth a try. You will not only find a mausoleum at a lake and a closed giant orphanage – but also a sad story about life and death. And about a man without a family who gave all his wealth to support children – and with that created himself a memorial.
Continue reading “Lenoir-Mausoleum”
Close to Calden, Germany you can find the rococo-style castle Wilhelmsthal within the Schloßpark Wilhelmsthal. It completes the historical triumvirate of castles and landscape gardens of the Kassel region – formed together with the Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe and the Staatspark Karlsaue at Kassel. Therefore this castle and park is also maintained and preserved by the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (mhk). It is a nice place and always good for a relaxed walk through the fields and the forest.
Continue reading “Schloß Wilhelmsthal”
It is an impressive memorial against deportation and elimination: ‘Die Rampe‘ (the ramp) by German artist Eva Renée Nele Bode (known as E. R. Nele; her father was the founder of the documenta). It was inaugurated in 1985 on the former grounds of the Henschelwerk factory at Kassel, Germany – producing locomotives, lorries and busses, but also tanks, airplanes and missiles. The company used around 6.000 forced labour workers for their purposes. When the artist was a child she could watch the transport of forced labour workers within freight cars; creating this work was also a way to cope with her traumatic childhood memories.
Continue reading “Die Rampe”
The city of Kassel, Germany is full of interesting artworks – some better known and some lesser. At the Schillerstraße you can find a pretty long mural created by the artist Daniel Ricardo Ortiz Polido from Nicaragua and the inhabitants of the social facilities located directly on the other side of the street. The ‘diakom‘ for example offers jobs and advanced training to people with mental handicaps. This art work shows the world through the eyes of addicts and mentally ill persons.
Continue reading “DIAkomenta”
It is one of the things people from Göttingen, Germany love to do on weekends: have a walk at the Kehr within the woods belonging to the city. There you will find deer and wild boars in two separate areas, you can buy some animal feed and take a round course which is approximately three kilometers long. Also a nice walk with children.
Continue reading “Kehr”
It is one of the places tourists at Kassel, Germany normally don’t get to see because of its location: the Park Schönfeld is a public park in the south of the city and part of a green connection between the Karlsaue and the Habichtswald. It is named after Nikolaus Heinrich von Schönfeld (born 1733) who also built a beautiful house – the Schlösschen Schönfeld – here.
Continue reading “Park Schönfeld”
At the southern end of the Staatspark Karlsaue of Kassel, Germany you can find the Blumeninsel Siebenbergen – an artificial island within the Küchengraben created in 1710 and designed in the year 1820. It is an island on which between April and October a vast number of flowers can be admired. It is a mix between local and exotic plants.
Continue reading “Siebenbergen”
When you’re walking along the Fulda close to the Orangerie at Kassel, Germany you might be a bit surprised to see a giant pickaxe close to the river. Or you might be not surprised as you can see many artworks throughout this city regularly hosting the art exhibition documenta. Why would you enlarge a pickaxe massively and put it at this specific place?
Continue reading “Spitzhacke”