Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Reichsburg Trifels is a castle on mountain Sonnenberg close to the city of Annweiler am Trifels, Germany. It was built before the year 1081 within the Pfälzerwald between Kaiserslautern and Landau. It is surrounded by mountains and forests and you‘ve got a fantastic view from the tower of the renovated castle once you made your way up. Continue reading “Reichsburg Trifels”
The soccer stadium of Kaiserslautern, Germany was formerly named after the mountain it is standing on, the Betzenberg (a name every German soccer fan knows). The Stadion am Betzenberg was opened in 1920 and his home to the 1. FC Kaiserslautern which was playing for many years in the Bundesliga. To commemorate the famous German player Fritz Walter it was renamed on his 65th birthday to Fritz-Walter-Stadion. Continue reading “Fritz-Walter-Stadion”
The Gartenschau Kaiserslautern was opened in the year 2000 and formed – together with the Japanese garden – the first garden exhibition of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatine. The grounds of a quarry, a spinning mill and a slaughterhouse in Kaiserslautern, Germany were transformed into a nice garden which is today an important park. Continue reading “Dinosaurs & Co.”
The Stiftskirche in the center of Kaiserslautern, Germany was once a catholic church named St. Martin and St. Maria. Today it is a protestant church inviting everyone for a quite moment. On the site once a cloister (“Stift“) was created by monks that emperor Friedrich Barbarossa had invited to settle in the city in the year 1176 CE. The church was built from the year 1250 on. Continue reading “Stiftskirche”
The Kaiserpfalz in Kaiserslautern, Germany is the ruin of the medieval royal palace of the Holy Roman Emporer Friedrich Barbarossa („red beard“) built in the 12th century CE. The so called Barbarossaburg is located close to the city center of Kaiserslautern. It was damaged in 1635 and 1688 and was finally destroyed by the French army in 1703. Continue reading “Kaiserpfalz”
From Germany Japan is quite far away but sometimes it is pretty near: thanks to the big Japanese communities especially at Düsseldorf and Frankfurt we are able to enjoy original Japanese dishes and sometimes walk through nice Japanese gardens. The biggest Japanese garden in Germany is at a rather unexpected location – in Kaiserslautern. Continue reading “Biggest Japanese garden”
The Starnberger See is Germany’s fifth largest lake and located 25 kilometers south of München, Germany. Because of its depth it is the German lake with the second largest amount of water after the Lake Constance („Bodensee“). Until 1962 it was called Würmsee but was than renamed after the main city at the lake because Starnberg was the entry point for visitors from München and people began to call it like that after the railway to Starnberg was built.
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Legoland Deutschland is a theme park in Günzburg, Germany close to Ulm. It was opened in 2002 and is one of the seven LEGO-themed parks around the world. People from northern Germany normally visit the first Legoland in Billund, Danmark – but as we where on vacation in München, Germany the German location was only 1.5 hours by car away. Continue reading “A journey to Legoland”
The documenta is one of the biggest exhibitions for contemporary art held every five years for 100 days in Kassel, Germany. At more than 30 locations indoor and outdoor you can discover art works and temporary restaurants and bars enhance the city. In 2017 the 14th documenta is held in Αθήνα, Greece and Kassel, Germany – the central exhibition hall Fridericianum is filled with exhibits from museums in Greece.
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The AquaPark in the small village Hemfurth belonging to Edertal, Germany is a water playground next to the dam of the Edersee water reservoir. If you arrive at the village you’ll have to park your car in a large car park outside the village (for a small fee) and walk five minutes to the dam. There a fountain creates a small artificial river that cools down dogs and the feet of children. Continue reading “AquaPark”