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A wonderful place to have a continental breakfast with one of the best views of the city. A bit expensive though, but totally worth.
Schon lange wollte ich ein „typisches Bild“ von Kiel machen, das sich von all den anderen unterscheidet und meine Heimatstadt dennoch so zeigt wie sie wirklich ist. Was hat Kiel? Strand, Meer, die Kieler Förde. Die prägnante Skyline mit Rathausturm, HDW-Kränen und Gablenzbrücke. Bei der Nähe zum Meer vergessen viele eine weitere sehr wichtige Eigenschaft, die ich sehr zu schätzen weiß: Kiel ist unwahrscheinlich grün. Es gibt Parks, Alleen und grade in den Randbereichen auch immer mal wieder Auflockerungen der Bebauung mit Seen, Wiesen und Wäldchen. Diese „Stadtnatur“ wollte ich mit dem wichtigsten Bestandteil der Kieler Skyline neben den Werftkränen fotografieren: dem Fernsehturm. Er ist vielleicht nicht der höchste oder gar der schönste, doch ist dieses Bauwerk aus Beton und Stahl vor allem eines: ein Stück Heimat. Schon von weitem sieht man ihn einem Leuchtturm gleich. Egal ob man mit dem Auto oder dem Schiff anreist – er ist das Erste, was man von Kiel zu sehen bekommt. Seine sehr definierten fast geometrischen Formen wollte ich mit weichen natürlichen Formen kontrastieren und plante meine Aufnahmen mit Nebelstimmung. Das Ergebnis seht ihr hier.
Ich wünsche euch ein schönes Wochenende!
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In diesem 252m hohen Fernsehturm an der Elbe in Dresden-Wachwitz befand sich seit seiner Eröffnung 1969 bis 1991 ein Restaurant, von dem man einen schönen Blick auf das Elbtal und auf Dresden hatte. Bemühungen, das Restaurant wieder zu eröffnen, blieben bisher leider erfolglos.
In the 252m high TV tower in Dresden-Wachwitz at the Elbe was a restaurant from 1969 to 1991. From this restaurant we had a wonderful sight on the Elbe and over Dresden. Efforts to reopen the restaurant have so far been unsuccessful.
This is the last post from our extended weekend in Berlin early in March. Taken from the Panorama Punkt at Potzdamer Platz towards the TV towers in the eastern part of Berlin.
The tower was constructed between 1965 and 1969 by the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was intended to be both a symbol of Communist power and of the city. It remains a landmark today, visible throughout the central and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 metres (including antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the third-tallest structure in the European Union. When built, it was the fourth-tallest freestanding structure in the world after the Ostankino Tower, the Empire State Building and 875 North Michigan Avenue, then known as The John Hancock Center.
The visitor platform, also called panoramic floor, is at a height of about 203 metres above the ground and visibility can reach 42 kilometres on a clear day. The restaurant "Telecafé", which rotates once every 30 minutes, is a few metres above the visitors' platform at 207 metres (679 ft). When first constructed, it turned once per hour.
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I first visited the tower on a school trip in 1971.
We were four 17 years old boys, who wanted to experience the rotation from the restaurant and had a table.
We had a menu, - but it was in German and in Russian, and none of us mastered any of these languages. We had learned German at school, - but never to read a menu.
We didn't have much money, so we were looking for something cheap.
We found something, - and asked the waiter for 4 times of that.
He looked at us as if we were nuts, - and asked "vier mal?" "Yes, please"
He went to the kitchen, and came back with four small bowls of whipped cream.
I will never forget what "Schlagsahne" is!
so here start the series from the Festival of Lights in Berlin for this year, I hope you like the photos!
Berlin's iconic Fernsehturm, or TV tower in English, was constructed between 1965-69 and was intended as one of the tallest towers in Europe, second only to Moscow's own TV tower. It was designed by East German architects Fritz Dieter, Günter Franke and Werner Ahrendt. The tower consists of a 250m concrete shaft with a red and white striped steel mast. A 3m tip was replaced in 1997 and the sphere consists of seven floors on the inside, all of which are open to visitors.
Although it was intended to demonstrate the technological advances of the East, it was doomed to an ironic fate. To the embarrassment of GDR authorities the steel sphere below the antenna produced the reflection of a giant cross (somewhat visible here but best seen from afar). Hence the popular joke, not appreciated by the SED government, that this was the Popes's revenge on the secular socialist State for having removed crucifixes from churches.
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Looking NW towards the recently set sun from the observation platform on Berlin Fernsehturm, a TV tower built in the 1960s in what was then East Berlin. Including its antenna, it is the highest structure in Germany and the third highest in the EU at 368 metres; the observation platform is at 203 metres.
We spotted Schaufelraddampfer Diesbar (1884) leaving Dresden in the evening, as we were just returning from a cycling trip
The Berlin Television Tower, or the Berliner Fernsehturm as it is known to Berliners, was inaugurated on 3 October 1969 just before the 20th anniversary of the GDR. For Walter Ulbricht, who was the State Council Chairman of the GDR at the time, it was one of the most important symbols demonstrating the superiority of socialist societies. The construction of the Berlin Television Tower showed that a better future was being built in the East.
But while the GDR has long since been history, the Berlin Television Tower still stands - and it is now accepted as a landmark for all of Germany. Every year more than a million visitors from 86 countries go up 200 metres to the observational level and there take in a breathtaking view of the bus-tling and constantly changing city. And so it comes as no surprise that many of those who come back down end up purchasing posters, t-shirts or cushions showcasing the Berlin Television Tower, which has become a cool symbol of the united city of Berlin.
Museuminsel , or Museum Island in Berlin that houses 5of Berlin's top Museums with the Fernsehturm(TV tower) in the background. The Spree River is in the foreground.
The Fernsehturm television tower in near Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte, created by the the administration of the German Democratic Republic between 1965 and 1969
You see the television tower of Berlin, photographed through two columns of the James Simon Gallery.
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Ihr seht den Berliner Fernsehturm, den ich durch zwei Säulen der James-Simon-Galerie fotografiert habe.