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Fagus factory in Alfeld, Germany (Unesco WHS)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 08:31:53 -0800

The Fagus Factory (German: Fagus Fabrik or Fagus Werk), a factory in Alfeld (Leine) in Germany, is an important example of early modern architecture. Commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt who wanted a radical structure to express the company's break from the past, the factory was designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer. It was constructed between 1911 and 1913, with additions and interiors completed in 1925.
In June 2011 it was added to the Unesco world heritage list.

ABM (Another Blue Monday) Old and New, Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:31:47 -0800

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The Porta Nigra (Latin for black gate) is a large Roman city gate in Trier, Germany. It is today the largest Roman city gate north of the Alps and is an Unesco World Heritage Site.

The name Porta Nigra originated in the Middle Ages due to the darkened color of its stone; the original Roman name has not been preserved. Locals commonly refer to the Porta Nigra simply as Porta.
The Porta Nigra was built in grey sandstone between 186 and 200 AD. The original gate consisted of two four-storied towers, projecting as near semicircles on the outer side. A narrow courtyard separated the two gate openings on either side. For unknown reasons, however, the construction of the gate remained unfinished. For example, the stones at the northern (outer) side of the gate were never abraded, and the protruding stones would have made it impossible to install movable gates. Nonetheless, the gate was used for several centuries until the end of the Roman era in Trier.

Trier is the oldest city in Germany, founded in 16 BC.

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Coke ovens in Essen, Germany.

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:19:15 -0800

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World cultural heritage coal mine and coke oven Zollverein

For many visitors this is the highlight of their city break to the Ruhr Area: Zollverein was once renowned as the most beautiful colliery in the world, and is now the most famous tourist attraction of the Ruhr metropolis, and is also a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site.

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Die Kokerei Zollverein in Essen war von 1961 bis 1993 aktiv und galt zu dieser Zeit als die modernste Kokerei Europas. Die Gestaltung der Kokerei übernahm der Industriearchitekt Fritz Schupp.

Sie ist heute ein Industriedenkmal. Gemeinsam mit der unmittelbar benachbarten Zeche Zollverein wurde die ehemalige Kokerei im Jahr 2002 von der UNESCO zum Weltkulturerbe erklärt.

Neuer Markt in Rostock, Germany (New market square)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:19:37 -0700

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One of the most picturesque places in Rostock is the Neuer Markt (New Market Square), with the Town Hall (originally built in the 13th century in Brick Gothic style, but extensively transformed in the 18th century, with the addition of a Baroque facade and a Banqueting Hall. The square also preserved six original, beautifully restored, gable houses from the 15th and 16th centuries. (The rest of the old houses in Hanseatic style that once bordered the square were destroyed in an Allied air-raid in 1942.)

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Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany (UNESCO WHS)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 03:41:50 -0700

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Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex
wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein_Coal_Mine_Industrial_Com... ) :
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German : Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has been inscribed into the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since December 14, 2001 and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

After it had been closed down in 1993, the coking plant was planned to be sold to China. The negotiations failed and it was subsequently threatened to be demolished. However, another project of the state of NRW set the coal mine on a list of future exhibition sites resulting in first gentle modifications and the cokery also became an official memorial in 2000.
On its 25th session in December 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared both the sites of the shafts 12 and 1/2 and the cokery a World Heritage Site.

The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986. For decades starting in the late 1950s, the two parts of the site, Zollverein Coal Mine and Zollverein Coking Plant (erected 1957−1961, closed on June 30, 1993), ranked among the largest of their kinds in Europe. Shaft 12, built in Bauhaus style, was opened in 1932 and is considered an architectural and technical masterpiece, earning it a reputation as the “most beautiful coal mine in the world”.

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Stralsund, an old city of the hanseatic league, Germany (Unesco world heritage)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:02:01 -0700

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Anne Frank, 1929 - 1945

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:01:41 -0700

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Anne Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her diary has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt am Main in Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941 when Nazi Germany passed the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was published. It documents her experiences hiding during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

The grave here is symbolic. It is not really her grave, but she died here in Bergen-Belsen.

Bergen-Belsen, Germany

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:55:31 -0700

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Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943 parts of it became a concentration camp. Originally this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas
The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division. They discovered around 53,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied. The horrors of the camp, documented on film and in pictures, made the name "Belsen" emblematic of Nazi crimes in general for public opinion in Western countries in the immediate post-1945 period.

Grüsse aus Deutschland / Greetings from Germany (Ötisheim)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:11:25 -0700

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Left : Cathedral of Trier and right: Liebfrauenkirche (German for Church of Our Lady)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:36:38 -0700

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The Cathedral of Saint Peter (German: Trierer Dom) is a church in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the oldest cathedral in the country. The edifice is notable for its extremely long life span under multiple different eras each contributing some elements to its design, including the center of the main chapel being made of Roman brick laid under the direction of Saint Helen, resulting in a cathedral added on to gradually rather than rebuilt in different eras. Since 1986 it has been on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
Trier is the oldest city in Germany, founded in 16 BC.

Mühlengrube, Wismar, Germany (Unesco WHS)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:40:12 -0700

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Wismar is a small port and Hanseatic League town in northern Germany on the Baltic Sea, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, about 45 km due east of Lübeck, and 30 km due north of Schwerin.
Representative of Hanseatic League city brick construction as well as the German brick churches, the city has been included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites since 2002.

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Die Grube ist ein regulierter Bach in Wismar in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. In amtlichen Karten trägt er die Bezeichnung Mühlenbach. In der Innenstadt unterteilt sich die Grube, der Fließrichtung folgend, in die Abschnitte Mühlengrube, Frische Grube und Runde Grube. Die parallel zum Wasserlauf führenden Straßen sind nach den Abschnitten benannt.

Die Hansestadt Wismar liegt an der Ostseeküste Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns am südlichen Ende der durch die Insel Poel geschützten Wismarbucht.
Am 27. Juni 2002 wurde ihre Altstadt zusammen mit der von Stralsund unter der Bezeichnung Historische Altstädte Stralsund und Wismar in die Welterbeliste der UNESCO aufgenommen.

The Fagus factory in Alfeld, Germany (Unesco world heritage since 2011)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:59:12 -0700

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View on Cologne (Köln), Germany

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:05:21 -0700

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The church in the foreground is The Great Saint Martin Church (German: Groß Sankt Martin, mostly Groß St. Martin). This church is a Romanesque Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Its foundations (circa 960 AD) rest on remnants of a Roman chapel, built on what was then an island in the Rhine. The church was later transformed into a Benedictine monastery. The current buildings, including a soaring crossing tower that is a landmark of Cologne's Old Town, were erected between 1150-1250.
In the background is of course the cathedral (DOM) of Cologne

The Holsten Gate in Lübeck, Germany

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:50:10 -0700

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The Holsten Gate ("Holstein Tor", later "Holstentor") is a city gate marking off the western boundary of the old center of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. This Brick Gothic construction is one of the relics of Lübeck’s medieval city fortifications and the only remaining city gate, except for the Citadel Gate ("Burgtor"). Because its two round towers and arched entrance are so well known it is regarded today as a symbol of this German city, and together with the old city centre (Altstadt) of Lübeck it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.

Das Holstentor („Holstein-Tor“) ist ein Stadttor, das die Altstadt der Hansestadt Lübeck nach Westen begrenzt. Wegen seines hohen Bekanntheitsgrades gilt es heute als Wahrzeichen der Stadt. Das spätgotische Gebäude gehört zu den Überresten der Befestigungsanlagen der Lübecker Stadtbefestigung. Es ist neben dem Burgtor das einzige erhaltene Stadttor Lübecks.

The cathedral in Hildesheim / der Hildesheimer Dom (UNESCO world heritage)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 04:37:07 -0700

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St. Mary's Cathedral (German: Dom St. Maria) is a medieval Catholic cathedral in Hildesheim, Germany, that has been on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list since 1985.
The cathedral was built between 1010 and 1020 in Romanesque style. It follows a symmetrical plan with two apses, that is characteristic of Ottonian Romanesque architecture in Old Saxony. After renovations and extensions in the 11th, 12th and 14th centuries, the cathedral was completely destroyed during an air raid on 22 March 1945, and rebuilt from 1950 to 1960.

Der Hildesheimer Dom St. Mariä Himmelfahrt ist die Kathedrale des Bistums Hildesheim in Hildesheim. Der erste Dombau an dieser Stelle entstand 872. Gebäude und Kunstschätze gehören zum Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.

Kütertor in Stralsund, Germany (Unesco world heritage)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:34:25 -0700

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Das Kütertor ist eines der ehemaligen Stadttore der Hansestadt Stralsund; es war eines der Landtore der Stralsunder Stadtbefestigungen. Zusammen mit dem Kniepertor ist das das letzte erhaltene Stadttor Stralsunds.

Das Tor wurde 1281 erstmals urkundlich erwähnt.
Im Jahr 1446 wurde das noch heute zu sehende Kütertor neu errichtet. Bis 1862 wurde das Tor als Gefängnis genutzt, später zu Wohnzwecken umgebaut. In der Zeit von 1963 bis 2003 war es Bestandteil einer Jugendherberge. Seitdem wurden diverse Konzepte erarbeitet, aber nie ausgeführt.
Am 27. Juni 2002 wurden die historischen Altstädte Stralsund und Wismar von der UNESCO in die „Liste des Welterbes“ aufgenommen.

Großsteingrab in Apeldorn, Emsland, Deutschland

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:51:42 -0700

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Das im Volksmund “der steinerne Schlüssel” genannte Großstein - (Megalith)grab wurde in der Jungsteinzeit (3500-1800 v. Chr.) aus mächtigen Findlingsblöcken errichtet, die Eiszeitgletscher vor mehr als 100.000 Jahren aus dem Norden herangeschafft hatten.
Die Großsteingräber wurden von Ackernbauern und Viehzüchtern etwa zwischen 2300 und 2000 v. Chr. zur Aufnahme verstorbener Familien- oder Sippenmitglieder errichtet.

Dolmen in Germany
These dolmen were erected in the neolithic age for important relatives that died. This one is probably from somewhere between 2300 and 2000 BC. This one has the nickname : "The stone key".

View on the city of Lübeck (Unesco world heritage)

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:48:11 -0700

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Lübeck is the second largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League ("Queen of the Hanse") and because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage is on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.

Marienkirche in Rostock, Germany

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 07:21:17 -0700

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St. Mary's Church, Rostock, in German Marienkirche, is the biggest of three town churches found in the Hanseatic city of Rostock, in northern Germany. The other two are St. Peter's (Petrikirche) and St. Nicholas (Nikolaikirche). A fourth, St. James' (Jakobikirche), was heavily damaged during the Second World War and subsequently demolished. St. Mary's was designated in 1265 as the main parish church and since the Protestant Reformation in 1531 it's the house of a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg.

St. Mary's Church, on Ziegenmarkt, is a large Brick Gothic church. Built in the 13th century, it was enlarged and modified at the end of the 14th century into the present basilica. The first reference to a church on this site is in 1232, which is thought to be the predecessor of the current building. The triple-nave cross-shaped basilica is in Brick Gothic, a building style typical of the Hanseatic port cities of northern Germany. The huge tower with a baroque lantern at the top was not completed until the end of the 18th century.

Memorial at Bergen-Belsen, Germany (Hier ruhen 5000 Tote) The text on this burial mound says: Here lay the bodies of 5000 dead people.

nobody@flickr.com (Frans.Sellies) — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 23:00:46 -0700

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