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Halong Bay - Vietnam
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Das Tempel der Göttin Hathor mit Hathorsäule und -kapitelle auf der südlichen Seite der zweiten Ebene des Totentempels der Hatschepsut.
Rundfahrt auf dem Geirangerfjord (Tag 6): Blick auf die Sieben_Schwestern (Dei sju systrene bzw. De syv søstrene)
Mühlenstraße in the Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, district of Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), Germany.
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The town of Stralsund lies in Northeast Germany in the region of Western Pomerania in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
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The town lies on the sound of Strelasund, a strait of the Baltic Sea. Its geographic proximity to the island of Rügen, whose only fixed link to the mainland, the Strelasund Crossing, runs between Stralsund and the village of Altefähr, has given Stralsund the sobriquet "Gateway to the Island of Rügen" (Tor zur Insel Rügen). Stralsund lies close to the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park.
A municipal forest and three municipal ponds (the Knieperteich, Frankenteich and Moorteich) belong to the Stralsund's town borough . The three ponds and the Strelasund lend the Old Town, the original settlement site and historic centre of the town, a protected island location.
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The centre of Stralsund has a wealth of historic buildings. Since 1990, large parts of the historic old town have been renovated with private and public capital, and with the support of foundations. As a result of the contempt for historic buildings in East Germany many houses were threatened by ruin. The Old Town in particular, offers a rich variety of historic buildings, with many former merchants' houses, churches, streets and squares. Of more than 800 listed buildings in Stralsund, more than 500 are designated as individual monuments in the Old Town. In twenty years, from the Wende in 1990 to November 2010, 588 of the more than 1,000 old buildings were completely refurbished, including 363 individual monuments. Because of its historical and architectural significance, in 2002 Stralsund's old town together with the old town of Wismar were added to entitled the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list as the "Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar".
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The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and defensive centres for the German territories. They contributed to the development of the characteristic building types and techniques of Brick Gothic in the Baltic region, as exemplified in several important brick cathedrals, the Town Hall of Stralsund, and the series of houses for residential, commercial and crafts use, representing its evolution over several centuries.
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Stralsund short trip October 2012
Der Reinigungsbrunnen (Hanafiyya) zur rituellen Waschung vor dem Gebet im Großen Hof (Sahn) der Muhammad-Ali-Moschee (Alabastermoschee) (Alt-Kairo). Im Hintergrund der Uhrenturm und die Arkaden.
Festsaal (Festival hall) in the Palas of Wartburg castle near Eisenach in the Thüringer Wald (Thuringian Forest), Thüringen (Thuringia), Germany.
Around 1207, Wartburg was the venue of the Sängerkrieg (Minstrel's Contest).
Saint Elisabeth of Hungary lived at Wartburg from 1211 to 1228.
Martin Luther, the initiator of the Protestant Reformation, stayed at Wartburg from 1521 to 1522 under the name of Junker Jörg (Knight George) after he had been excommunicated by Pope Leo X. During this time he translated the New Testament into German.
Wartburg is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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"Wartburg Castle blends superbly into its forest surroundings and is in many ways 'the ideal castle'. Although it has retained some original sections from the feudal period, the form it acquired during the 19th-century reconstitution gives a good idea of what this fortress might have been at the height of its military and seigneurial power. It was during his exile at Wartburg Castle that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German. "
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Thüringen Easter short trip April 2015
Fahrt von Trondheim nach Otta (Tag 14) auf der E 6 und Fv 30 durch das Tal Gauldalen: Die alte Brücke Eidet bru über dem Fluss Gaula
Haasenhof (Haase courtyard), Dr.-Julius-Leber-Straße 37-39, Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The streets of Lübeck's old town are lined by the magnificent merchants houses with their gabled and richly decorated facades.
Inside these blocks were built housings with very small flats ("Buden") for the workers and poorer craftsmen working for the rich owners of the street houses. Many charitable merchants or craftsmen also founded housings for the widows of their guilds or other poor people. The backyards were accessed through a network of narrow alleyways, the whole system is known as "Gänge und Höfe" ("alleyways and courtyards"). Today most of the houses are privately owned and have been renovated, combining the tiny flats to larger apartments.
The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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July 2017.
Die Seiser Alm ist die größte Hochalm Europas. Sie liegt in den Südtiroler Dolomiten in Italien, rund 20 km nordöstlich von Bozen und oberhalb der bekannten Tourismus-Orte Seis am Schlern, Kastelruth und St. Ulrich in Gröden.
The Ring of Brodgar, Orkney, Scotland, UK
Recreation(1): Bronze+Silver+Gold+Emerald(4)
Super~Six(0)
Nice(0)
Architect of the castle: Johann Conrad Schlaun.
UNESCO Weltkulturerbe / World Heritage Site.
Classic black and white photograph. Leica M3, Summicron 50mm f/2, AgfaPhoto APX 100 Professional film.
Blick von der Zitadelle von Saladin (Vordergrund und rechts die Muhammad-Ali-Moschee) nach Norden auf das islamische Alt-Kairo u.a. mit der Rifa'i-Moschee und der Sultan-Hasan-Moschee.
A visit to Cologne and its outstanding architectural points of interest.
Cologne Cathedral ("Kölner Dom" or simply "Dom") is one of the largest churches on the planet. Construction started in 1248 on top of the remains of the former cathedral and several other buildings. The place had been occupied by Christian churches from the 4th century onwards. It took until 1880 to finish it completely. However, continuous repairs and replacements of fragile parts are necessary to keep it intact.
It stands 157.22m (515.81ft) tall
Cologne Cathedral was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 (ref. 0292).
View east over the large market halls of the Riga Central Market (built 1924-1930), the highrise of the Academy of Sciences, a typical piece of Soviet architecture built 1953-1956, and the Riga Radio and TV Tower, built 1979-1989. The Moscow District is located behind the market halls.
The tower of St. Peter's Church (Svētā Pētera baznīca) offers an exquisite view of Riga. In view is the Daugava river which joins the Baltic just a few miles from here.
Window of Casa Batlló, Passeig de Gràcia 43, Barcelona, autonomous community Catalonia, Spain.
Casa Batlló is a building by the famous modernisme architect Antoni Gaudí and, together with six of his other works, is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO as "Works of Antoni Gaudí".
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Casa Batlló (...) is a renowned building located in the heart of Barcelona and is one of Antoni Gaudí’s masterpieces. Casa Batlló is a remodel of a previously built house. It was redesigned in 1904 by Gaudí and has been refurbished several times after that. Casa Batlló evokes the creativity and playfulness of Gaudí’s work through the incracite facades and creative floors. Gaudí's assistants Domènec Sugrañes i Gras, Josep Canaleta and Joan Rubió also contributed to the renovation project.
The local name for the building is Casa dels ossos (House of Bones), as it has a visceral, skeletal organic quality. It was originally designed for a middle-class family and situated in a prosperous district of Barcelona.
The building looks very remarkable — like everything Gaudí designed, only identifiable as Modernisme or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. The ground floor, in particular, is rather astonishing with tracery, irregular oval windows and flowing sculpted stone work.
It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely. Much of the façade is decorated with a mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles (trencadís) that starts in shades of golden orange moving into greenish blues. The roof is arched and was likened to the back of a dragon or dinosaur. A common theory about the building is that the rounded feature to the left of centre, terminating at the top in a turret and cross, represents the lance of Saint George (patron saint of Catalonia, Gaudí's home), which has been plunged into the back of the dragon.
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Antoni Gaudí i Cornet (...25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) was a Spanish Catalan architect and figurehead of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works reflect his highly individual and distinctive style and are largely concentrated in the Catalan capital of Barcelona, notably his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família.
Much of Gaudí's work was marked by his big passions in life: architecture, nature, religion. Gaudí studied every detail of his creations, integrating into his architecture a series of crafts in which he was skilled: ceramics, stained glass, wrought ironwork forging and carpentry. He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces.
After a few years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of the Catalan Modernista movement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream Modernisme, culminating in an organic style inspired by nature. Gaudí rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them.
Gaudí’s work enjoys widespread international appeal and many studies are devoted to understanding his architecture. Today, his work finds admirers among architects and the general public alike. His masterpiece, the still-uncompleted Sagrada Família, is one of the most visited monuments in Spain. Between 1984 and 2005, seven of his works were declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.
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Barcelona (...) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1,620,943 within its administrative limits on a land area of 101.4 km² (39 sq mi). The urban area of Barcelona extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 4.5 million within an area of 803 km² (310 sq mi), being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan. About five million people live in the Barcelona metropolitan area. It is also the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge (512 metres (1,680 ft)).
Founded as a Roman city, Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona became the most important city of the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural centre and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The headquarters of the Union for the Mediterranean is located in Barcelona. The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions and also many international sport tournaments.
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Costa Brava holiday April 2009.
Oaxaca - Mexico
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Timur plante 1399 den Bau der größten Freitagsmoschee der islamischen Welt. Doch Erdbeben und die Gesetze der Statik machten diesen Plan zunichte. Umbauten und Verstärkungen sollten die Moschee retten. Jedoch schon nach wenigen Jahren fielen erste Ziegel aus der Kuppel über dem Mihrab. Möglicherweise waren auf Timurs Betreiben die bautechnischen Grenzen überschritten worden. Danach verfiel die Moschee und wurde zur Ruine, an der Wind, Wetter und Erdbeben weiter nagten. Der innere Bogen des Portalbaus brach 1897 in sich zusammen. Jahrhundertelang plünderten die Bewohner Samarkands die Ruine auf der Suche nach Baumaterial. Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts begann die usbekische Regierung mit der Wiederherstellung der drei Kuppelbauwerke und des Paradeportals.
Samarkand wurde etwa 750 v. Chr. gegründet. Der mongolische Herrscher Timur machte Samarkand zur 1369 zur Hauptstadt seines Großreichs und baute die Stadt zu einer der schönsten und bedeutendsten Metropolen seiner Zeit aus.
Die Altstadt von Samarkand ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Die Zeche Zollverein war ein von 1851 bis 1986 aktives Steinkohlebergwerk in Essen.
Sie ist heute ein Architektur- und Industriedenkmal. Gemeinsam mit der unmittelbar benachbarten Kokerei Zollverein gehören die Schachtanlagen 12 und 1/2/8 der Zeche seit 2001 zum Welterbe der UNESCO. Zollverein ist Ankerpunkt der Europäischen Route der Industriekultur. (aus Wikipedia)
In der Kohlenwäsche ist das Ruhr Museum untergebracht, das sich mit der Geschichte des Ruhrgebieites beschäftigt.
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.
The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986.(from Wikipedia)
The Ruhrmuseum is housed in a coal mill, dealing with the history of the Ruhr district.
Window Details: Fagus Factory commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt , designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, constructed between 1911 and 1913. UNESCO World Heritage, shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, Germany
Die Zitadelle befindet sich auf einem aufgeschütteten Hügel. Die Festungsmauer hat eine Länge von 780 m . Der Grundriss der Anlage entspricht dem Sternbild des Großen Wagens.
Buchara wurde im 6. Jhdt v. chr. gegründet und profitierte durch seine Lage vom Handel an der Seidenstraße.
Buchara war die erste bedeutende Stadt in Zentralasien, wo sich der Islam durchsetzen konnte.
Buchara ist Weltkulturerbe der UNESCO.
Bürgerschaftssaal (Hall of the City Council) in Lübeck Rathaus (town hall), Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The town hall of Lübeck is one of the largest and most significant town halls of Germany. It was a model for many other town halls in the Baltic Sea region.
Over the years, Lübeck town hall was extended several times. The largest part was built in brick gothic style, but some parts were also built with sandstone in Renaissance style.
The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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Sightseeing tour with Ralph on Good Friday 2016.
Die Nordseite des Portikus zum Hypostyl mit Reliefs und Wandmalerei an den Pfeilern im zweiten Hof des Totentempels des Ramses III.: Der Pharao Ramses III. mit Opfergaben für die Gottheiten.
Im Jahr 1933 beschrieb der Religionsphilosoph Martin Buber in einem Zwiegespräch mit dem evangelischen Theologen Karl Ludwig Schmidt diesen ganz besonderen Blick vom Wormser Judenfriedhof Heiliger Sand über die alten Gräber hinweg zum Wormser Dom beschrieb. Bei diesem Teffen ging es um die Frage des Bundes zwischen Gott und den Juden und seither ist vom „Buber-Blick“ die Rede. Inzwischen markiert eine Stele auf dem jüdischen Friedhof die Stelle, von der aus dieser Blick möglich ist.
Hier die wichtigsten Zitatauszüge:
„Ich lebe nicht fern von der Stadt Worms, an die mich auch eine Tradition meiner Ahnen bindet; und ich fahre von Zeit zu Zeit hinüber. Wenn ich hinüber fahre, gehe ich immer zuerst zum Dom. Das ist eine sichtbar gewordene Harmonie der Glieder, eine Ganzheit, in der kein Teil aus der Vollkommenheit wankt … Dann gehe ich zum jüdischen Friedhof hinüber. Der besteht aus schiefen, zerspellten, formlosen, richtungslosen Steinen. Ich stelle mich darein, blicke von diesem Friedhofgewirr zu einer herrlichen Harmonie empor, und mir ist, als sähe ich von Israel zur Kirche auf ... Ich habe da gestanden und habe alles selber erfahren, mir ist all der Tod widerfahren: all die Asche, all die Zerspelltheit, all der lautlose Jammer ist mein; aber der Bund ist mir nicht aufgekündigt worden. Ich liege am Boden, hingestürzt wie diese Steine. Aber gekündigt ist mir nicht. Der Dom ist, wie er ist. Der Friedhof ist, wie er ist. Aber gekündigt ist uns nicht worden.“
Dancing House (Tančící dům) in Rašínovo nábřeží (Rašínovo Embankment), New Town (Nové Město), Prague (Praha), Czech Republic.
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The Dancing House or Dancing Building (Czech: Tančící dům) is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building in downtown Prague, Czech Republic at Rašínovo nábřeží 80, 120 00 Praha 2. It was designed by Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in co-operation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot (where the previous building had been destroyed during the Bombing of Prague in 1945). The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time. Czech president Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had supported it, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity.
Originally named Fred and Ginger (after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers - the house resembles a pair of dancers) the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous. Others have nicknamed it "Drunk House".
On the roof is a French restaurant with views of the city. The building's other tenants include several multinational firms.
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The Historic Centre of Prague is inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO.
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Built between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Old Town, the Lesser Town and the New Town speak of the great architectural and cultural influence enjoyed by this city since the Middle Ages. The many magnificent monuments, such as Hradcani Castle, St Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge and numerous churches and palaces, built mostly in the 14th century under the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV.
Prague is one of the most beautiful cities in Europe in terms of its setting on both banks of the Vltava River, its townscape of burger houses and palaces punctuated by towers, and its individual buildings.
The Historic Centre represents a supreme manifestation of Medieval urbanism (the New Town of Emperor Charles IV built as the New Jerusalem). The Prague architectural works of the Gothic Period (14th and 15th centuries), of the High Baroque of the 1st half of the 18th century and of the rising modernism after the year 1900, influenced the development of Central Europe, perhaps even all European architecture. Prague represents one of the most prominent world centres of creative life in the field of urbanism and architecture across generations, human mentality and beliefs.
Prague belongs to the group of historic cities which have preserved the structure of their development until the present times. Within the core of Prague, successive stages of growth and changes have respected the original grand-scale urban structure of the Early Middle Ages. This structure was essentially and greatly enlarged with urban activities in the High Gothic period with more additions during the High Baroque period and in the 19th century. It has been saved from any large-scale urban renewal or massive demolitions and thus preserves its overall configuration, pattern and spatial composition.
In the course of the 1100 years of its existence, Prague’s development can be documented in the architectural expression of many historical periods and their styles. The city is rich in outstanding monuments from all periods of its history. Of particular importance are Prague Castle, the Cathedral of St Vitus, Hradćany Square in front of the Castle, the Valdgtejn Palace on the left bank of the river, the Gothic Charles Bridge, the Romanesque Rotunda of the Holy Rood, the Gothic arcaded houses round the Old Town Square, the High Gothic Minorite Church of St James in the Stark Mĕsto, the late 19th century buildings and town plan of the Nave Mĕsto.
As early as the Middle Ages, Prague became one of the leading cultural centres of Christian Europe. The Prague University, founded in 1348, is one of the earliest in Europe. The milieu of the University in the last quarter of the 14th century and the first years of the 15th century contributed among other things to the formation of ideas of the Hussite Movement which represented in fact the first steps of the European Reformation. As a metropolis of culture, Prague is connected with prominent names in art, science and politics, such as Charles IV, Petr Parléř, Jan Hus, Johannes Kepler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Kafka, Antonín Dvořák, Albert Einstein, Edvard Beneš (co-founder of the League of Nations) and Václav Havel.
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Abends auf dem 1. Hof des Tempels des Amun-Re (Karnak): Blick auf die Statue Ramses II. und der 2. Pylon.
Scan of an analog photo taken in September 1987
Built in 90 AD by the Romans, the amphitheatre of Arles held more than 20,000 spectators of bloody gladiator fights and chariot races. In the 5th century after the fall of the Western Empire, the amphitheatre became a shelter for the people of Arles and was transformed into a fortress with four towers while the 3rd row of arches was lost.
Today during the Feria d'Arles in April and in September, bullfights take place in the Arena, attracting crowds of visitors.
Since 1981 the amphitheatre is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, together with other Roman and medieval buildings of the city.
Uttar Pradesh - India
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Window Details: Fagus Factory commissioned by owner Carl Benscheidt , designed by Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, constructed between 1911 and 1913. UNESCO World Heritage, shoe last factory in Alfeld on the Leine, Lower Saxony, Germany, Sonnar FE 55mm F1.8 ZA
The World Heritage Site Tejeda on Gran Canaria (Spain) is a lovely, very well kept little village up in the mountains near the center of the island.
When we visited the place in July 2016, the Jacaranda trees were in full bloom. The mountain range in the background is Montaña de los Moriscos
Canon EOS 70D, Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 DC Macro OS. Pano stitched in Lightroom.
I have 3 albums with photos from the island. This photo belongs to the second, 'natural beauty' album:
Gran Canaria coastal area set .
Gran Canaria - natural beauty (from the mountains).
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (from the capital).
Blick von Elephantine auf das Westufer des Nils und Assuan. Am rechten Rand oben das Old Cataract Hotel.
Timur (8. April 1336 bis 19. Februar 1405), auch bekannt als Amir Temur, war ein zentralasiatischer Militärführer eines in Samarkand ansässigen turko-mongolischen Stammesverbands und Eroberer am Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts. In der westlichen Geschichtsschreibung ist er auch bekannt als Tīmūr-i Lang, „Timur der Lahme“). Der Name Tamerlan, wie er ebenfalls noch in verschiedenen europäischen Sprachen in Gebrauch ist, leitet sich daraus ab.
In der Stellung eines Emirs war er der Begründer der Dynastie der Timuriden, deren Reich im Zenit der Macht weite Teile Vorder- und Mittelasiens einschloss. Timurs Herrschaft ist gekennzeichnet durch Brutalität und Tyrannei. Gleichzeitig galt er als großzügiger Kunst- und Literaturförderer.
Er schuf eines der größten, wenn auch kurzlebigsten Reiche, die jemals in Zentralasien existierten. Dabei erlangte er den Ruf eines skrupellosen Eroberers, der die Bevölkerung in den unterworfenen Gebieten und Städten zu Hunderttausenden ermorden und Aufstände gnadenlos unterdrücken ließ
Window of Heiligen-Geist-Hospital (Hospital of the Holy Spirit) in Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Heiligen-Geist-Hospital is one of the oldest and best preserved civil hospitals of the Middle Age. It is furthermore one of the earliest institutions of social welfare in Europe and belongs to the most significant monumental architecture of the Middle Age.
It was a combination of wealth and piety that brought the mercantile patricians and other wealthy citizens of Lübeck to establish a lot of foundations and institutions for social welfare.
The building of the Heiligen-Geist-Hospital began in 1280, 4 years after the great fire of Lübeck, and was ready in 1286. It has been modified later several times.
The complex consists of a hospital church, an elongate hospital hall (called long house), some auxiliary buildings around a small courtyard and two citizens’ houses.
In the beginning, the patients / residents only had one bed each, and the beds simply were laid out in 4 lines across the long house of the hospital.
Not before 1820 there were built really small cabins of about 4 m² for the residents. These cabins were made out of wood and were open at the top. They are called “Kabäuschen” in German. The last residents moved out of the “Kabäuschen” not before 1970, and they did it only reluctantly.
From 1973 to 1976 a part of the complex was converted into a modern old people’s home for 85 people. The church hall has been restored from 1977-1984. Today, the historic rooms of the church hall and the long house are regularly used for a very famous artisan market in Christmas time, and for other exhibitions and touristic activities.
The church hall of Heiligen-Geist-Hospital is filled with precious artwork. Vaults and walls are covered with frescoes, the windows are made of stained glass. There are two altarpieces, a pulpit, many wooden sculptures of Saints and a richly decorated rood screen, its balustrade showing in 23 painted wooden panels the legend of Saint Elisabeth of Hungary.
The old city center of Lübeck is in great parts inscribed in the World Heritage List of the UNESCO. A plan of the inscribed zones can be found here: whc.unesco.org/download.cfm?id_document=102311
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Lübeck – the former capital and Queen City of the Hanseatic League – was founded in the 12th century and prospered until the 16th century as the major trading centre for northern Europe. It has remained a centre for maritime commerce to this day, particularly with the Nordic countries. Despite the damage it suffered during the Second World War, the basic structure of the old city, consisting mainly of 15th- and 16th-century patrician residences, public monuments (the famous Holstentor brick gate), churches and salt storehouses, remains unaltered.
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July 2009.
The Brotherhood of Black Heads, founded in 1399, has been occupying this building at Pikk tänav 26 since 1517. This was the brotherhood of unmarried merchants. Its patron saint was St. Maurtitius whose portrait adorns the entrance to the Mustpeade Maja (House of the Black Heads)--and who indirectly gave the brotherhood its name. The stunning Renaissance portal was created by the stonemason Arent Passer (c.1560-1637) in 1597.
Window of Spišský hrad (Spiš Castle, German: Zipser Burg), municipality Žehra, district Spišská Nová Ves, Košický kraj (Košice region), Slovakia.
This window looks at Spišské Podhradie and Spišská Kapitula.
Spiš Castle is inscribed in the World Heritage list of the UNESCO as part of the World Heritage Site Levoča, Spišský Hrad and the Associated Cultural Monuments.
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The ruins of Spiš Castle (Slovak: Spišský hrad; Hungarian: Szepesi vár; German: Zipser Burg) in eastern Slovakia form one of the largest castle sites in Central Europe. The castle is situated above the town of Spišské Podhradie and the village of Žehra, in the region known as Spiš (Hungarian: Szepes, German: Zips, Polish: Spisz, Latin: Scepusium). It was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1993 (together with the adjacent locations of Spišská Kapitula, Spišské Podhradie and Žehra). This is one of the biggest European castles by area (41 426 m²).
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Slovakia holidays May 2016
Scan of an analog photo taken in July 2004
Als Teil der Great Spa Towns of Europe wurde Baden-Baden im Juli 2021 in die UNESCO Welterbeliste aufgenommen. Zur Kernzone des Welterbes in Baden-Baden gehören die verschiedenen Stadtquartiere in der historischen Innenstadt, die sich vom Mittelalter bis in das frühe 20. Jahrhundert entwickelten.
The Abbey of Fontenay is a former Cistercian abbey located near the villiage Marmagne in the Arrondissement Montbard (Département of Côte-d'Or). It was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118 and built in the Romanesque style. It is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.
At the time of the French Revolution, the monastic live came to an end, the Abby became a property of the French State and lateron was used as a paper mill. This lead to some destructions but prevented an eventual final decay.
In 1906 the brothers Aynard bought the complex and started extensive restauration work. Fontenay still belongs to the Aynard family and thus is the only privately owned UNESCO Heritage Site. Of the original complex comprising church, dormitory, cloister, chapter house, caldarium, refectory, dovecote and forge, all are intact except the refectory.