Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The tradition of making a big fire at Easter is widespread throughout Germany. When I was young I never joined one of these events. I was always living in a city and these fires mostly take place at the villages around and are organized by the local volunteer firefighters. Continue reading “Easter fire”
The Fuhrmannstein is a rock placed at a crossroad in the forest near the Rinderstall in Hann. Münden, Germany. It has been placed there in 1926 in memory of Karl Fuhrmann. He was head of the local hikers association, owned a cigar factory and was the creator of the local youth hostel. Continue reading “Fuhrmannstein & Schutzhütte”
It is the smallest museum in Hann. Münden, Germany – the Wald- und Jagdmuseum (forest and hunting museum) next to the Rinderstall in the middle of the forest. It is just one room in a hut. But it contains a lot stuffed animals, mushrooms and information about the forest. Continue reading “Wald- und Jagdmuseum”
What you might only recognize when passing by in an ICE or IC train is the fact that under the Kattenbühl in Hann. Münden, Germany there is Germany’s second longest railway tunnel on the Nord-Süd-Strecke connecting Hannover with Frankfurt am Main: the Mündener Tunnel. The trains pass deep under the forest in this more than 10 kilometers long tunnel. Continue reading “Second longest train tunnel”
Between the city boundaries of Hann. Münden, Germany and its externally located city quarter Bonaforth you can find the Rauschenbunnen – a small and unimportant well that must have meant something to somebody in earlier days. Otherwise the beautiful decoration and the stonework around it is not explainable. Continue reading “Rauschenbrunnen”
The Jagdhaus Heede in Hann. Münden, Germany has an old-fashioned name – but also a good and modern menu. It is a restaurant with an attached hotel in a remote part of the city directly next to the forest on Blümer Berg. Continue reading “Jagdhaus Heede”
It is an artists who is tightly connected to the city of Hann. Münden, Germany – even though he wasn’t born and he didn’t die there: Prof. Gustav Eberlein. Hann. Münden became his hometown after his parents moved there and the citizens are still admiring him and his works. Continue reading “Prof. Eberlein”
It is a memorial many people get close to every day without recognizing it: the Gedächtnis der Gleise (memory of the railway tracks) at the main railway station (Kulturbahnhof) of Kassel, Germany. I just discovered it by accident after using the railway station for two years twice a day.
Shortly before Easter we went to Berlin, Germany to do some sightseeing and visit the family. After some weeks of freezing cold temperatures spring was coming and brought us some sunny days. We checked-in again at the simple but good Sperlingshof at Dallgow-Döberitz and started our visit. Continue reading “Beginning of spring”
In an industrial zone of Potsdam, Germany you can find the candy factory of Katjes (in Germany well-known for gummy bears, also vegetarian ones). Here you can get up to the first floor to watch one production line and see how candy is made. Continue reading “Bonbon factory”