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Part of the Berlin Wall
"The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that had marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period."
"Haus der Geschichte (officially 'Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland', i. e. "House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany") is a museum of contemporary history in Bonn, Germany. With around one million visitors every year, it is one of the most popular German museums."
Source: wikipedia.org
"The Hohenzollern Bridge (German: Hohenzollernbrücke) is a bridge crossing the river Rhine in the German city of Cologne (German Köln). It crosses the Rhine at kilometre 688.5. Originally, the bridge was both a railway and street bridge, however, after its destruction in 1945 and its subsequent reconstruction, it was only accessible to rail and pedestrian traffic.
It is the most heavily used railway bridge in Germany with more than 1200 trains daily, connecting the Köln Hauptbahnhof and Köln Messe/Deutz stations.
The bridge was constructed between 1907 and 1911 after the old bridge, the Cathedral Bridge (Dombrücke), was demolished. The Cathedral Bridge was unable to handle the increasing traffic in Cologne. It was named after the House of Hohenzollern."
Source: wikipedia.org
Ammonoids are an extinct group of marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species. The earliest ammonites appear during the Devonian, and the last species died out during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.
Ammonites are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which a particular species or genus is found to specific geologic time periods. Their fossil shells usually take the form of planispirals, although there were some helically spiraled and nonspiraled forms (known as heteromorphs).
The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled rams' horns. Pliny the Elder (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically depicted wearing ram's horns. Often the name of an ammonite genus ends in -ceras, which is Greek (κέρας) for "horn".
Source: wikipedia.org
BelsenPark® is a new green and quiet neighborhood for living and working. 450 apartments were built. There are shops, restaurants and offices connected by a pedestrian zone. Cars disappear in underground garages. The area is ideally connected to the public transport network.
"The highlight of the new exhibition is the Earth itself. In the gigantic interior of the Gasometer our blue planet is brought alive luminously: the round tour through the “Wonders of Nature“ reaches its climax with the view of a 20 metre large globe hovering in the Gasometer’s 100 metre high air space. Moving, high-resolution satellite images (8-10 K) are projected, accurate in every detail, onto the globe. The visitor experiences the fascinating phenomena of the Earth’s atmosphere in the change from day to night and in the changing seasons."
Source: gasometer.de
"Het Huys ter Horst is een kasteelruïne ten noorden van Horst, gemeente Horst aan de Maas.
De eerste vermelding van een Florken van der Horst in het leenaktenboek van de Graven van Gelre is uit 1326 en hij is misschien de stichter van het kasteel. Dit ook gezien de resultaten van de opgravingen, die wijzen op omstreeks 1300 als de vroegste stichtingsdatum. De heerlijke rechten van het dorp Horst (in die tijd Berkele geheten) had hij niet, die behoorden toe aan de heren van Meerlo.
De heer Johan van Meerlo (ook geheten van Mirlaer) kocht omstreeks 1360 het kasteel en na zijn dood werd het gesplitst. De ene helft kwam in handen van de Hertog van Gelre en de andere helft in die van Johan van Broeckhuysen. Omstreeks 1400 ging de Hertog het kasteel als dienstwoning gebruiken voor zijn Ambtman in het ambt Kessel. In principe waren er dus twee heren, maar in de praktijk was het er vaak één aangezien de hertog zijn deel verpachtte aan de andere.
In 1514 kocht de hertog de andere helft van de Heren van Meerlo en kwam aan de tweeherigheid een eind. Aangezien de lucratieve functie van ambtman ook nog doorverkocht kon worden, waren na de Van Broeckhuysens en twee andere personen, Johan van Wittenhorst en zijn nazaten de bewoners van ter Horst. Johan baron van Wittenhorst, heer van Sonsveld, Drongelen en Oyen was getrouwd met Adriana van Beieren-Schagen. Willem Vincent van Wittenhorst, de zoon van Johan en Adriana liet het middeleeuwse kasteel in 1664 geheel verbouwen en moderniseren naar ontwerp van Christoffel Verhoff. Hij kocht ook de heerlijke rechten van de Koning van Spanje, tevens Hertog van Gelre. Het kasteel vererfde vervolgens naar de familie von Fürstenberg in 1738.
Onder de zonderlinge Frans Clemens von Fürstenberg verviel het kasteel en werd het onbewoonbaar. Hijzelf trok in bij een van zijn pachters en overleed daar in 1827. In 1842 werd de bouwval gesloopt, wat enige jaren duurde. Via zijn dochter was het restant vererfd naar graaf Otto von Westerholt, die dit verkreeg uit de erfdeling in 1860. Na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd het als vijandelijk Duits vermogen onteigend en in 1950 aan Staatsbosbeheer overgedragen. Via ruiling kwam het in 1961 in handen van de gemeente Horst, die het restant van het kasteel in 2003 liet herstellen en toegankelijk maakte (met een uitzichttoren). Tussen 1969 en 1976 werden er bij de ruïne opgravingen verricht."
Source: wikipedia.nl