Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Musée du Louvre in Paris, France is the third biggest and most-visited museum in the world. It is located in the Palais du Louvre and the entrance is underneath a well-known glass pyramid. 10 million people get to this former seat of the French kings each year. Continue reading “The Louvre”
The Dom St. Salvator is the roman-catholic cathedral of Fulda, Germany. It was built from 1704 on and was inaugurated in 1712. The cathedral is a beautiful church easily reachable from the train station: just walk down the hill through the pedestrian zone and at the university square turn right. You can’t miss this giant house of prayer built in Baroque style.
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The airport named after Charles de Gaulle in Paris, France is the most important airport of the French capital city. It was opened in 1974, has three terminals and four runways. It transports 66 million passengers each year.
Continue reading “L’aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle (CDG)”
The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche (what a long name) is a Protest church in Berlin, Germany that has only partially been repaired and therefore carries the name “Hohler Zahn” (empty tooth). It is located on the Breitscheidplatz close to the zoological garden and the aquarium. Continue reading “Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche”
There are different memorials for the soviet soldiers who freed Berlin, Germany in World War II. The best-known ones can be found in Tiergarten close to the Reichstag (West Berlin) and in the Treptower Park (East Berlin). The latter is the most important one.
Continue reading “Sowjetisches Ehrenmal Treptow”
The Bendlerblock is a section of the building of the Department of Defense in Berlin, Germany. The building was used for the same purpose during Nazi times and it was they place where the group around Ludwig Beck and Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg organized the attack on Adolf Hitler. Continue reading “Bendlerblock”
The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany is an art gallery with a really modern design. Sometimes the exhibitions are on the ground floor, but most times you’ll have to take some steps down to find the interesting exhibits. Continue reading “Neue Nationalgalerie”
Even most of my friends don’t know that there were some years I worked as a software developer for the leading european vendor for steel construction software. One of my tasks was to implement algorithms that analyze geometric structures on steel girders and steel-plates. And one of the buildings rised with our software was the new main railway station of Berlin.
Continue reading “Looking out for flaws in software code”
The Bundeskanzleramt in Berlin, Germany is the office of the German chancellor and located close to the Reichstag. It was built until 2001 and was necessary because of the shift of the government from Bonn to Berlin. Continue reading “Home of the chancellor”
The Reichstag in Berlin, Germany is since 1999 the seat of the German parliament. It was built until 1894 by Paul Wallot and was already the Parliament of the Deutsches Kaiserreich and the Weimarer Republik.
Continue reading “Parliament @ Reichstag”