Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The cathedral of Münster in Westfalen, Germany – the St.-Paulus-Dom – is a vast and very impressive church located in the centre of the city. In front of it you’ll find the also very big Domplatz that hosts a giant farmers’ market on every Saturday. It is a roman-catholic church dedicated to Paul the Apostle and dates back to the year 1225 CE – former buildings can be traced back to the year 805.
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The most special thing about the St.-Lamberti-Kirche at Münster in Westfalen, Germany cannot be found inside – but outside at the tower. There you can see three baskets (not cages) used to transport prisoners. Quite an odd thing for a Catholic church. It was built from the year 1375 CE on in gothic style and is named after Saint Lambert of Maastricht.
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The ancient town hall of Münster in Westfalen, Germany is located at the Prinzipalmarkt – the most beautiful street of the city. It is one of the most important landmarks of the city and a wonderful gabled house in gothic style dating back to the year 1170 CE. But this can’t really be proved as all documents about the city where wrecked in the 1530s during the time of the Münster rebellion.
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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.
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The main railway station of Münster in Westfalen, Germany is located next to the old city center and is therefore a good starting point for a visit to the city. Regional trains but also ICE and IC trains stop there and the local transport is realized by busses stopping in front of the station. It consists of eight tracks, was built in 1848 and 66.000 passengers use it every day.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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