Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
Since 1921 the unions and worker’s parties had a shared home at Göttingen, Germany: the Volksheim. Meetings were held there and the organizations had their offices at the building. Also the newspaper Volksblatt of the Social Democratic party (SPD) was printed in a building next to it. This all ended when the Nazis occupied the Volksheim in 1933.
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If you are at the city quarter Weende belonging to Göttingen, Germany and in need of a place to play for the kids or to have a peaceful walk, the Klosterpark might be the right place. The Augustiner cloister dates back to the year 1180 CE.
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At this place in the city center of Göttingen, Germany a synagogue was built in 1869. It lasted until the year 1938 when the Nazis burned it down in the night from the 9th to the 10th of November 1938. A gap remained at this place until the year 1973 when a memorial was built.
The church St. Johannis is one of the four churches in the city center of Göttingen, Germany and located close to the old town hall and the market place. It is a Gothic-style church from the 14th century and its two 62 meters high towers can be seen from far away.
The Leinekanal is a channel leading through the city center of Göttingen, Germany. It is one of the reasons why it is nice to visit the center and to live there – at some sections you can have a walk along the water. The channel was first a small river called Gote; the city name Göttingen means ‘living at the Gote‘.
The Paulinerkirche is a former church of a cloister in the city center of Göttingen, Germany. From 1294 the Dominicans settled at Göttingen and erected the church in 1304. It was dedicated to the apostles Peter and Paul and relics of Thomas Aquinas were stored here.
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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.
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”