Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
I once decided to have a vacation with a good friend of mine and therefore we booked an away home in Lübeck-Travemünde, Germany. Travemünde is a part of Lübeck close to the sea. You can easily reach it by train from the main railway station of Lübeck.
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The Strandbahnhof in Travemünde, belonging to Lübeck, Germany is the last stop on the track from Lübeck Hauptbahnhof to Travemünde. It dates back to the year 1912, consists of red bricks and has a tower with a clock showing the departure of the next train to Lübeck.
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The main railway station of Lübeck, Germany was opened in 1908. 31000 passengers get here every day and make it to the most frequented railway station of Schleswig-Holstein. The roof is 130 meters wide and spans ten tracks.
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The railway station of Uelzen, Germany is a special one: it was built in 1847 but massively redesigned as an EXPO2000 project. The building was changed according to the ideas of the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser. You can’t find a straight line within the building after this change.
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If you walk across the city center of Duderstadt, Germany you cannot omit seeing the Westerturm – the last visible part of the city fortifications. It is a gate first mentioned in 1343 and it has a specialty: the tower on top is twisted because of a construction mistake.
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The church St. Cyriakus is the Roman-Catholic cathedral of Duderstadt, Germany. It dates back to the year 950, the current building with its two towers was built in 1240. It was destroyed by a large fire in 1852 but fastly restored.
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Duderstadt, Germany is the main city of a Catholic diaspora in Protestant south Lower Saxony. It is part of the Eichsfeld, a region separated during the times of the GDR and now part of two federal states within Germany.
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The Weserstadion is a soccer stadium on the Peterswerder in Bremen, Germany. It his home to the SV Werder Bremen and one of the last stadiums not having a sponsored name in the first German league. The stadium was opened in 1947 and nowadays has 42.500 seats. Fans of the home team gather at the stands in the eastern part of the stadium, the “Ostkurve“.
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Since 2009 I’m proud supporter of my soccer club, the SV Werder Bremen (and since 2020 also lifetime member). The “SVW” is number two in the all-time Bundesliga table and playing at its home stadium, the Weserstadion, in Bremen – close to the city centre at the Osterdeich. I got addicted by trips to different stadiums to see the team play live – and even today it is always a good reason to travel to other cities.
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When you want to go shopping in Frankfurt, Germany the first location is often the Zeil – the main shopping street. Since the end of the 19th century it is one of the most important shopping streets in Europe and you will find all big brands here.
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