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Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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A prototype version of a self-sustaining life-support system, intended to allow humans to live in space indefinitely, is seen in Spain’s University Autònoma of Barcelona.
This is the pilot plant of the international ESA-led Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative, or MELiSSA, a mini-ecosystem behind airtight glass.
Today, International Space Station crews must be resupplied from Earth, but such supply lines will become impractical as explorers venture farther out into space.
Instead, the 11-nation MELiSSA seeks to perfect a regenerative life-support system that could supply astronauts with all the oxygen, water and food they require.
The pilot plant hosts a multi-compartment loop with a light-powered bioreactor and a culture of oxygen-producing algae to keep ‘crews’ of three rats alive and comfortable for months at a time. While the algae yield oxygen and trap carbon dioxide, the rats do exactly the reverse.
A MELiSSA-based experiment is being run on the International Space Station. In May, experts will gather to discuss MELiSSA and closed-loop life support systems, along with topics such as air, water and waste recycling and food production.
Credit: ESA/UAB
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The Purple Hotel in Lincolnwood, IL. This photo was taken while the building was being demolished in 2013.
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Class 47 locomotive No. 47848 brings up the rear of 1Z80, the 16:38 Worcester Shrub Hill to Norwich return excursion as it passes Steynors Park in Droitwich Spa on Saturday 6th April 2024. LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 steam locomotive No. 44871 was at the front.
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Saltwell Park is a Victorian park in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Opened in 1876, the park was designed by Edward Kemp and incorporates the mansion and associated grounds of the Saltwellgate estate owner, William Wailes, who sold his estate to Gateshead Council for £35,000. Upon opening, it became known as "The People's Park". The park was expanded in 1920 when the council purchased the adjacent gardens to the Saltwell Grove estate and added these to the park. This extended the park's total size to 55 acres (22 ha). Towards the end of the 20th century, the park had fallen into disrepair, but between 1999 and 2005, it was subject to a £9.6 million restoration project, funded collaboratively by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Gateshead Council and is now host to around 2 million visitors per year.
The park is split broadly into three sections. Saltwell Grove, the southern section, is an area of grassed open space with a bandstand to the western corner. The central area contains the centrepiece of the park – Wailes's former home, the Grade II listed Saltwell Towers and its surrounding belvedere walls. These have been fully restored and are now a visitor centre. There are also three war memorials, a yew-tree maze, a dene and an area containing several species of caged animals known as Pet's Corner. The largest section of the park is the Northern Fields section which contains a four-acre boating lake with a wooded island at its centre, as well as three bowling greens and two pavilions.
Saltwell Park has been presented with numerous awards in recent years, including being named "Britain's Best Park" in 2005 and Civic Trust Park of the Year in 2006. It has won a Green Flag award every year since 2006 and in 2013 it was re-listed as one of fifty-five Green Heritage sites in the UK. The park has been a social hub for over a century; an annual public bonfire night display was first held in 1883, a circus in 1886 and the park hosted the Holidays at Home programme during World War II. Today the bonfire display has grown into one of the largest in Tyne and Wear and is attended by thousands of people every year. In October 2012, Saltwell Park was the site of the first British Legion Field of Remembrance in North East England. It also plays a role in local sport and recreation; it has hosted a fundraising day in support of Sport Relief, a Race for Life for a number of years and in November 2012 a "green gym" was installed at the park – one of only two in Gateshead.
Conception and opening
At the turn of the 19th century, Gateshead was beginning to expand but, save a smattering of industrial elements mainly at Sheriff Hill and at the south shore of the River Tyne, the town and its surrounds were mostly agricultural and most of the town was covered by large, private estates. The largest of these was the Saltwell estate, which consisted of around 500 acres (200 ha) of land in a broad quadrangle between the Team Valley and the villages of Bensham and Low Fell. In 1805 this estate was broken up into a number of smaller properties including Saltwell Cottage. By 1856 Saltwell Cottage had become the Saltwellside estate and was in the hands of William Wailes, a native of Newcastle upon Tyne who had become one of the leading exponents of stained glass in England. In 1856 Wailes commissioned the design of a grand Victorian mansion for his family to live at Saltwellside. Work began in 1859 and continued until 1871 when Wailes' Saltwell Towers was finally completed. Saltwell Towers was a large, eclectic mansion in red brick with Gothic turrets and mock battlements.
While Wailes was building Saltwell Towers, Gateshead was expanding and industrialising. The resultant air pollution, poor social conditions and general shortage of clean drinking water in the town led to concern about public health and gave rise to calls for the creation of public parks. One such call was made in 1857 when the editorial of the local newspaper, the Gateshead Observer, demanded that a park be built at Windmill Hills. In 1861, the owners of ten acres of land at Windmill Hills approached the town council and offered the land free of charge so long as it was used as a place of recreation for the people of Gateshead. The land was formally conveyed on 18 November 1861 and the opening of the first public park in Gateshead was celebrated by the closing of workplaces and a day of holiday in the town.
Gateshead Council subsequently considered other sites for a second park, but it was discouraged by the high prices being asked by the estate owners at Redheugh and Shipcote. The Shipcote estate was owned by Sir Walter James, who was approached by a council park committee in 1874 and asked how much would be required to purchase at least part of his estate. Whilst negotiations were ongoing, James' offer to sell part of his estate at £650 per acre was met by fierce criticism from members of the public and the council began to seek an alternative to the Shipcote proposal. The town clerk wrote to William Wailes to ask if he would be willing to sell his 37 acres (15 ha) Saltwellside estate. On 11 November 1874, Wailes replied that the council could have his entire estate for £32,000, and in March 1875 James told the park committee that he did not wish to compete with Wailes but that he would offer a subscription if the council went ahead at Saltwellgate. Later that month the park committee formally opened talks with Wailes and, after various proposals were considered and rejected, in September 1875 the council decided to buy the entire Saltwellgate estate for an increased total price of £35,000 after securing a loan for the full amount from the Local Government Board. The agreement was formalised two months later and included a provision to lease Saltwell Towers back to Wailes for the remainder of his life.
Having obtained the Saltwellgate estate, the council contacted local ornithologist and landscaper John Hancock and asked him to submit designs for the new park. When Hancock refused, citing the pressure of his existing work, the park committee retained Edward Kemp at four guineas a day until his plans were submitted and approved in February 1876. Kemp's plans were implemented over a period of years by borough surveyor James Bowyer at a cost of around £11,000. Original plans to officially open the park on Whit Monday 1876 were not realised, and the park was never officially opened, but nonetheless, public usage began in late 1876.
Design and layout
Saltwell Park is located within a residential area around 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south of Gateshead town centre on land which slopes towards the Team Valley in the west. It is a broad rectangle with boundaries at East and West Park Roads, Saltwell View and Saltwell Road South. The original site purchased from Wailes was joined by the gardens of a late 19th century villa at East Park Road known as Saltwell Grove (or "The Grove") after these were purchased by Gateshead Council in 1920. The park today constitutes around 55 acres (22 ha) of land in total.
The park is split into three sections – southern, central and northern areas – and the entire park is bordered by perimeter shrubs, plants and trees. The southern Saltwell Grove area is demarcated from the central section by an old stone wall running in a west–east direction which formed the park's original southern boundary and is, according to a Gateshead Council document, an "important feature in the history and development of the park". This section consists largely of open space, meandering pathways skirting the perimeter, a bandstand and some flowerbeds. Entrances to this section of the park are to the west at Saltwell Road and to the extreme south-east corner.
The central section comprises Saltwell Towers and its grounds and is some 17 acres (6.9 ha) in total area. Saltwell Towers is located in the middle of the central section of the park and it is surrounded to the south by its accompanying walls, walkways and ha-ha. An enclosed rose garden lies to the east of the building and to the west there is a maze and a dene through which a stream runs into a lily-pond at an entrance to the park at Saltwell Road South. The approach from the southern section is a large grassed area replete with paths which wind towards a footbridge to the Towers, which is used for general leisure activities and picnicking and is home to a stone-built war memorial. The entrance to the footbridge is the site of a bronze war memorial which sits in the centre of a roundabout surrounded by bedding flowers. The footbridge was built in 2003 and is also a war memorial.
The northern section of the park constitutes 19 acres (7.7 ha) of land and can be accessed either by external entrances at the north-eastern corner of the park and West Park Road or internally from the central section through the dene or from Pets Corner. The north-eastern entrance consists of a pair of imposing gateposts and the view from this access point sweeps across the entire northern section of the park. The eastern perimeter of this section is a terraced walkway known as the Broadwalk with adjacent, banked bedded planting. A central path from the Broadwalk splits a large grassed area almost neatly in half and leads to a lake and two child's play areas. A path circles the perimeter of the lake and seating is placed at the fringe of the lake at various points. To the south of the lake are three bowling greens and to the north are tennis courts. These cannot be seen from the lake due to a screen of plants. The plants within the screen are typical of those bedded throughout the park, which include French marigolds, roses, tulips, phlomis, sedum and silver dust.
Principal attractions
There are eleven listed buildings in Saltwell Park. Saltwell Towers, former home of William Wailes and later to lawyer Joseph Shipley (founder of the nearby Shipley Art Gallery), was the seat of the former Saltwellgate estate and has been described by a BBC report as a "fairytale mansion". The building is a dark red and yellow brick construction with asymmetrical towers, tall chimney stacks and corner turrets. It has been used for a number of purposes, including as a hospital during the First World War and as a museum from 1933 to 1969, but was then abandoned and fell into considerable disrepair. However, after a £3 million, five-year refurbishment programme was completed in 2004, the building was officially reopened as a visitors centre in the presence of Wailes' great-great-grandson. Saltwell Towers today includes a cafe, some pieces of local art, an exhibition on the history of the park and also a stained glass centrepiece commissioned from a local artist. A Gateshead Blue Plaque in commemoration of Wailes was installed in 2005. The mansion was protected in 1973 as a Grade II listed building, along with the two storey, sandstone belvedere walls which surround the west and south of the mansion. These are replete with stairs and corner battlements and the entire walls are conjoined by a walkway which is open to the public.
A stable block is at the north-west of Saltwell Towers, built in 1871 in the same style as the mansion in red brick and with a slate roof. This is a Grade II listed building and is now an educational area for schools and local community groups. Also to the north-west of Saltwell Towers is the Charlton Memorial Drinking Fountain, a stone and granite fountain inscribed in memory of George Charlton, the mayor of Gateshead between 1874 and 1875. This is Grade II listed, as is the 'Salte Well' at the west entrance to the central section of the park. The latter is dated 1872 and is a sandstone construction with a basin in the central alcove. Midway along the Broadwalk in the north section of the park is a Grade II listed bronze statue of Alderman John Lucas, mounted on a sandstone plinth and granite base. Built in 1902, it was paid for by public subscription. The wrought iron gates and accompanying stone piers which greet visitors at the north-eastern entrance to the park are also Grade II listed.
There are three war memorials in the park. There is a Boer War memorial in the central section of the park around 100 metres south of Saltwell Towers. This consists of a bronze angel perched on a granite plinth and dated 1905. A modern Durham Light Infantry memorial was unveiled on 12 July 1981 by the mayor of Newcastle. This takes the form of a sandstone wall with adjoining flanking walls which create a small ornamental garden. There are three plaques and a description commemorating men of the battalion who died in battle between 1900 and 1945. The third war memorial is the bridge adjoining the lawned, central gardens to the belvedere walls of Saltwell Towers. This timber footbridge, 22 feet (6.7 m) long and 12 feet (3.7 m) wide, is named the Primosole Bridge and is a copy of the original Edwardian bridge which once crossed the ha-ha. The name is carved onto a low stone wall which runs alongside and an inscription commemorates the men of the Durham Light Infantry who died whilst crossing the original Primosole Bridge during Operation Fustian in the Second World War.
The principal feature of the northern section of the park is a boating lake. This has been in situ since a tender to install a 4 acres (1.6 ha) lake with an island in the centre was accepted in August 1880. An approach to Joseph Swan to illuminate the lake received no response, but a further approach to John Hancock to design the lake edge was more successful; the lake edge today still follows Hancock's original design. Model boating has been a fixture of the lake since 1886 and the Saltwell Park Model Boat Club is the latest organisation to use the lake for this purpose. The island in the centre of the lake was in 1909 home to a bandstand, and visiting performers were required to travel by boat to the island, but the bandstand was moved to the Saltwell Grove section of the park in 1921. During the summer months, visitors can hire rowing boats and pedalos for use on the lake. The lake has long been inhabited by mallards and tufted ducks and it is also home to several other species of wildfowl, including swans, Canada and barnacle geese, coots and moorhens. Common pochard and grebe also inhabit the lake in winter after migrating from Russia and central Europe. Kingfishers are also reported to have returned to the lake after a lengthy absence.
There have been animals kept in Saltwell Park since June 1877 – initially, these included monkeys, deer and a raccoon. Caged animals are still kept in the north-east of the park in an area called "Pets Corner", where there are a peacock and peahen, pheasants, rabbits and guinea pigs kept in a pair of aviaries built in 1880 and paid for by John Elliot, then chief constable of Gateshead The aviaries are stone and wrought iron, octagonal constructions which were listed at Grade II by English Heritage in 1973. A bandstand was erected in 1876 and was subsequently replaced in May 1895 by an octagonal, red-brick, cast-iron and wood structure which was first sited in the northern fields. This was then moved to the island in the lake and moved again to Saltwell Grove. It was taken down and rebuilt at Beamish Museum in 1978, where it remains in use and has been designated a Grade II listed building. The present bandstand is in the Saltwell Grove area and is used every Sunday during the summer months by brass bands.
In the western shadow of Saltwell Towers there is a maze, built in 1877 by Wailes for his family's use. The maze was replanted with yew trees as part of the 2005 regeneration project to the original plans laid by Wailes. Also renovated was Saltwell Dene, a picturesque wooded area with a stream, bridges, cascades and a lily pond which inspired local artist Thomas Miles Richardson to paint a watercolour of it in the 19th century. Saltwell Dene was the final part of the 21st century restoration project to be completed, reopening to the public in March 2005. At either end of the Broadwalk there are two wooden shelters whilst the centre of the Broadwalk is marked by the Almond Pavilion. The pavilion was opened in 1881 and was a refreshment pavilion for decades before it fell into disrepair; by the 1980s it was derelict and it was then completely destroyed by fire. It has been fully reconstructed, including a replica of the original clock tower, and is once more a refreshment kiosk with new toilet facilities. It offers panoramic views into the northern fields and across the boating lake. An oriental garden was opened in 2011 to mark the twenty-year anniversary of the twinning arrangement between Gateshead and Komatsu. This includes a gravel pond, waterfalls and stone lanterns. The park is also host to three well-used bowling greens, replete with their own pavilion (the Avenue Green Pavilion) and a rose garden.
Various other attractions have been installed and subsequently removed from the park, including a paddling pool, a museum and, from 1982 to 1993, a retired and modified Vickers Viscount 701 airplane. The aircraft had its wings cut short and was marked "Saltwell Airways".
Awards and usage
Upon opening, Saltwell Park was also called 'The People's Park' and the name is still used locally today. Today, the park is a green lung in the centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead which attracts over two million visitors a year. In 2005 it was named "Britain's Best Park". In 2006 the park was chosen as Civic Trust Park of the Year and received a Gold Laurel Award from the Institute of Maintenance and Building Management. The park has won a Green Flag Award every year since 2006 and was in 2013 re-listed as one of fifty-five Green Heritage sites in the UK.
The park has long been a hub of local social activities and events. A public firework display was first held in 1883, the first circus was hosted in 1886 and the Holidays at Home programme was conducted there during World War II – from September 1942 to the end of the war, families and American G.I.s could enjoy donkey rides, dancing, brass bands and gymnastic events. A bonfire night fireworks display has been held at the park for many years, one of three public displays in Gateshead (the other two are at Barmoor in Ryton and Oliver Henderson Park in Leam Lane). This event has grown into one of the largest displays in Tyne and Wear and is attended by thousands of people. In October 2012, Saltwell Park was the site of the first British Legion Field of Remembrance in North East England. Around ten thousand crosses were planted in Saltwell Grove. An Enchanted Parks event was hosted for the seventh consecutive year in December 2012. This is a collection of winter-themed visual arts, sculpture and interactive features which attracts around 14,000 visitors every year. An annual sculpture day has been held at the park for twenty-seven years and members of the public are invited to build themed sculptures under the supervision of local professionals. The 2012 renewal, themed "Wonders of the World", was held in Saltwell Grove and attracted hundreds of families.
Saltwell Park has hosted a Race for Life – a national fundraising event for women only, organised by Cancer Research UK – for a number of years. The 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) course has been attempted by over 8,000 competitors in the last three years, with the latest renewal held in May 2012. On 21 March 2010 the park hosted a fundraising day in support of Sport Relief, a bi-annual charity event organised by the BBC. Three fun runs around the boating lake attracted over 4,000 participants in total, including Jayne Middlemiss, Andrew Hayden Smith and Futureheads guitarist David Craig. Local athletics club Saltwell Harriers have hosted an annual 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) race in and around Saltwell Park since 1911. Named the Ronnie Walker Saltwell Road Race since 2010 in honour of the long-standing club president, it is the oldest road race in England. 1984 Olympic silver medallist Mike McLeod won the race for 16 consecutive years between 1974 and 1990. In November 2012 a "green gym" was opened at the park. Fitness equipment was installed near the tennis courts in the Northern Fields section of the park and is available for use by the public free of charge. This is one of only two such outdoor public gyms in Gateshead, the other being opened simultaneously at Windy Nook Nature Reserve. A Parkrun takes place every Saturday morning at 9 am starting and finishing at the South Pavilion. As well as physical health, the park is now home to the Recovery College Collective, a peer led mental health charity offering informal drop ins and creative workshops.
Gateshead is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne.
Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council.
In the 2011 Census, the town had a population of 120,046 while the wider borough had 200,214.
History
Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People as ad caput caprae ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attestations of the name, among them Gatesheued (c. 1190), literally "goat's head" but in the context of a place-name meaning 'headland or hill frequented by (wild) goats'. Although other derivations have been mooted, it is this that is given by the standard authorities.
A Brittonic predecessor, named with the element *gabro-, 'goat' (c.f. Welsh gafr), may underlie the name. Gateshead might have been the Roman-British fort of Gabrosentum.
Early
There has been a settlement on the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, around the old river crossing where the Swing Bridge now stands, since Roman times.
The first recorded mention of Gateshead is in the writings of the Venerable Bede who referred to an Abbot of Gateshead called Utta in 623. In 1068 William the Conqueror defeated the forces of Edgar the Ætheling and Malcolm king of Scotland (Shakespeare's Malcolm) on Gateshead Fell (now Low Fell and Sheriff Hill).
During medieval times Gateshead was under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Durham. At this time the area was largely forest with some agricultural land. The forest was the subject of Gateshead's first charter, granted in the 12th century by Hugh du Puiset, Bishop of Durham. An alternative spelling may be "Gatishevede", as seen in a legal record, dated 1430.
Industrial revolution
Throughout the Industrial Revolution the population of Gateshead expanded rapidly; between 1801 and 1901 the increase was over 100,000. This expansion resulted in the spread southwards of the town.
In 1854, a catastrophic explosion on the quayside destroyed most of Gateshead's medieval heritage, and caused widespread damage on the Newcastle side of the river.
Sir Joseph Swan lived at Underhill, Low Fell, Gateshead from 1869 to 1883, where his experiments led to the invention of the electric light bulb. The house was the first in the world to be wired for domestic electric light.
In the 1889 one of the largest employers (Hawks, Crawshay and Company) closed down and unemployment has since been a burden. Up to the Second World War there were repeated newspaper reports of the unemployed sending deputations to the council to provide work. The depression years of the 1920s and 1930s created even more joblessness and the Team Valley Trading Estate was built in the mid-1930s to alleviate the situation.
Regeneration
In the late noughties, Gateshead Council started to regenerate the town, with the long-term aim of making Gateshead a city. The most extensive transformation occurred in the Quayside, with almost all the structures there being constructed or refurbished in this time.
In the early 2010s, regeneration refocused on the town centre. The £150 million Trinity Square development opened in May 2013, it incorporates student accommodation, a cinema, health centre and shops. It was nominated for the Carbuncle Cup in September 2014. The cup was however awarded to another development which involved Tesco, Woolwich Central.
Most of my slides from the protest came out terrifically overblown, a consequence of trying to strike a balance between protesters silhouetted against a bright sky. Between color cast and exposure though, this is by far one of my favorite images.
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The queen had cut his supply of gold, but still he had to make another expedition down below, that Dragon, That gold and those mysterious cave-crystals it was just to teasing for his mind...
...of cause he did make some money from selling his sleazy books mostly to women of the upper class, (since the lower classes coudn´t read) still, that was a small market and the work of writing every single letter in a book was far to much hard work under dim candle light, it took ages and ages and add a few more ages, time he could have spent to experimenting in his lab, reading his ancient book or go out and explore...
How, could that simple woman (Esmeralda the Queen) not pay for his expeditions any longer, then he had two genius ideas at once, he was thinking of books and women...
The first idea was an idea on how to press letters in books all at once with a machine, this Idea soon faded in his misty ancient head...
The second idea was even better, Women, He had a charming nature that worked on these strange creatures...
...He started making two commercial boards full of heart-shaped he made out of an invention he called plastacine a rubbery substance easily shaped in to different forms when heated the right way...
Then he collected all his musical instruments a flute, a lute, and a strange bellow-sack with weird pipes sticking out of it at random, he had gotten this exotic instrument from one of the queens Highland Guards, the one who was wearing a skirt and ate deep-fried intestin voluntary on his day off and zipped a brown liquid he called the water of life...
(some time later)
it is early morning about four o´clock outside the city quarters of the women who had lost their husbands in battle a strange sound woke the inhabitants it sounded like someone had blown air in to a pig and then let it go to fly by it self in the air...
then these was a almost silent flute playing, then some poetry read from a raspy ancient voice!
"Thau woman, you besutten up on ye window, how much of a rose you smell, make your rosy parts open and squirt into mine direction a stream of gilded gold as bright as Mother Sol herself!"
Then it was lute music and romantic tunes sung...
all this in the early mornings when the lonely women was still in their beds, when the looked out of their windows, the sawthe make standing in his "special romantic" wizards-hat and beside him plaques with a written text:
I the town-mage, is in need of your support, if you like my poetry, verse and music, take a groat from your keep and trow it on the ground, if you hit my chart you get to get a piece of impromptu poetry read for just you, if you hit the rug I will play a tune for just you...
if you hit the pot I will share you bed the rest of the morning for a small fee...
The mage´s plan worked out quite well, he managed to collect quite a lot of money, which was later confiscated by the sheriff and his bailiffs, also the old man got to spend some time in the jail, once again!
Othem church (Swedish: Othems kyrka) is a church building in Othem, Othem parish on Gotland and belongs to the Othem-Boge parish in Visby diocese. It is located just over 3 km northeast of Visby and 6½ km northwest of Slite.
Othem church is a whitewashed Romanesque limestone church with narrow arched windows, a narrower choir to the east and a pointed tower to the west. The tower is equipped with two-coupled arched openings on three floors. On the south side of the church are two entrance gates. They both have pointed arches with a fit tympanone contour and both have plant ornaments on the capital bands. The larger portal into the longhouse is equipped with lashes, while the chancel portal is more elaborate in its details. On the northern side of the longhouse, there is a clogged Romanesque portal originating from a former stone church. The sacristy is located north of the choir. In the middle of the longhouse's south side is an unusually strong support wall.
The choir is dominated by the altarpiece from 1693, but there are also medieval lime paintings from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Such have previously existed in the longhouse. On the epistle side stands a pulpit from the 18th century with sound ceilings. In the triumphal arch hangs a crucifix with the "victorious Christ".
On both sides of the altar are two tombstones with runic inscriptions reminiscent of Halvard in Agnabo and Niklas in Kikin (?). The choir also has a burial hob with majuscule inscription; underneath it rests the first known vicar Nicolaus († 1336).
Investigations of the foundation have found remains of a 12th-century church. Before the present church, there has been at least one church building in stone, built just before 1200. A walled Romanesque portal in the long wall's northern wall is reminiscent of its predecessor, as well as a strong, weather-beaten baptismal font from around the year 1200, possibly performed by the stone master Sighraf. This older church was equipped with a tower at the beginning of the 13th century.
In the 13th century, the present church was started. It was connected to the tower from the previous stone church. In the middle of the 13th century, the square-shaped longhouse, consisting of four square trusses, was erected by a round center pillar, the capital of which was decorated with reliefs. This chapter is very similar to the corresponding chapters in Hellvi church, built by the Gotlandian builder and sculptor Lafrans Botvidarsson, which could indicate that the same builder worked here as well. After the construction of the longhouse, the choir continued almost immediately with the straight-ended choir consisting of a single trough with round diagonal ribs. The tower was also heightened then.
As early as the 1240s, the four arches were decorated. In the east, the tree of life was painted with the root of one of the streams in the Garden of Eden. In the northern and southern kappas there are more trees and also the vaulting ribbons are ornamented. In the tree of life, a couple of birds have settled down. They, i.e. the human souls, are shot by the powers of evil disguised as hunters, but the arrows bounce back against the shooters. In the western arch, evil power appears in the form of an ascending dragon, which opens its gap to the tree of life. In a medallion under the tree of life, Christ oversees it all. About 1265 the church buildings and decorations were finished.
Around 1330 a significant artist visited the church. On the northern side of the triumphal arch, he painted Mary with the baby Jesus, an unusually high-quality work of art.
At the turn of the century, the so-called "Othemsmästaren" appeared, which also made lime paintings in Fide church on Gotland. In Othem he painted Christ as king surrounded by the disciples, as well as on each side of the altar, the apostle Paul and Saint Dionysius, bishop, and perhaps the patron saint of the church.
In 1693, all medieval paintings were calcified and an altarpiece of sandstone was inserted in the choir.
In the 1730s, the pulpit was installed and it was probably during the 1740s that the church received a new bench interior.
In 1774 a new stand was built. The Barrier Barrier was decorated in 1776 by the sergeant and church painter Johan Nicolaus Weller (1723-1785), who painted the four evangelists and Jesus at the age of twelve in the Temple of Jerusalem.
In 1854, a church organ was installed by organ builder Anders Vilhelm Lindgren (1807-1860) from Stockholm. His organ facade still remains, even though the interior has been replaced.
One night in March 1908 the church was ignited and in the morning the wood in the tower as well as over the longhouse and choir had been consumed by the fire. The church bell was alerted before it fell down and burst. Fortunately, you managed to save loose inventory, among other things. the church silver and all old documents. The fire was probably due to faults in the heating system. The following year, the church had a new roof over longhouses and cows. Now they took the opportunity to produce the old medieval paintings that were whitewashed in 1693.
In 1952, the church was restored following a proposal by architect Erik Fant (1889–1954).
In 2000, the church was renovated and in August 2004, a ceiling painter could be seen climbing to the top of the church tower spire.
Altar essay in sandstone depicting "The Crucifixion of Jesus", donated by Mårten Fries and Margareta Schröder in 1693.
Baptismal font, weathered, from about the year 1200 possibly by Sighraf,
Triumphal crucifix with the "victorious Christ".
Pulpit and sound ceilings from the 18th century.
Decoration on the Balcony Barrier "The Four Evangelists" & "Jesus at the age of twelve in the Temple of Jerusalem", painted in 1776 by Johan Nicolaus Weller.
Contemporary wood sculpture above the baptismal font depicting "Mary with the Child of Jesus", executed by sculptor Bertil Nyström from Slite.
Source: Swedish Wikipedia, translation by Google Translate and me
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Othems kyrka är en kyrkobyggnad i Othem, Othems socken på Gotland och tillhör Othem-Boge församling i Visby stift. Den ligger drygt 3 mil nordöst om Visby och 6½ kilometer nordväst om Slite.
Othems kyrka är en vitputsad romansk kalkstenskyrka med smala rundbågiga fönster, ett smalare kor i öster och ett spetsigt torn i väster. Tornet är försett med tvåkopplade rundbågiga öppningar i tre våningar. På kyrkans södra sida finns två ingångsportaler. De är båda spetsbågiga med passformad tympanonkontur och de har båda växtornamentik på kapitälbanden. Den större portalen in till långhuset är försedd med vimperg medan korportalen är mera genomarbetad i sina detaljer. På långhusets norra sida finns en igensatt romansk portal härstammande från en tidigare stenkyrka. Sakristian ligger norr om koret. Mitt på långhusets sydsida en ovanligt kraftig stödmur.
Koret domineras av altaruppsatsen från 1693, men där finns också medeltida kalkmålningar från 1200-, 1300- och 1400-talen. Sådana har tidigare funnits även i långhuset. På epistelsidan står en predikstol från 1700-talet med ljudtak. I triumfbågen hänger ett krucifix med den "segrande Kristus".
På ömse sidor om altaret ligger tvenne gravstenar med runinskrift minnande om Halvard i Agnabo och Niklas i Kikin (?). I koret finns också en gravhäll med majuskelinskrift; under denna var ursprungligen kyrkoherde Nicolaus (†133) begravd.
Vid undersökningar av grunden har man funnit rester från en 1100-talskyrka. Före nuvarande kyrka har det funnits åtminstone en kyrkobyggnad i sten, byggd strax före år 1200. En igenmurad romansk portal i långhusets nordvägg minner om föregångaren, liksom också en starkt söndervittrad dopfunt från cirka år 1200 möjligen utförd av stenmästaren Sighraf. Denna äldre kyrka försågs i början av 1200-talet med ett torn.
Under 1200-talet påbörjades den nuvarande kyrkan. Den anslöts till tornet från den föregående stenkyrkan. Vid mitten av 1200-talet uppfördes det kvadratformade långhuset bestående av fyra kvadratiska travéer, vilka bärs upp av en rund mittpelare, vars kapitäl smyckades med reliefer. Detta kapitäl påminner mycket om motsvarande kapitäl i Hellvi kyrka, byggd av den gotländske byggmästaren och bildhuggaren Lafrans Botvidarsson, vilket skulle kunna tyda på att samme byggmästare verkade även här. Efter uppförandet av långhuset fortsatte man så gott som omedelbart med det rakt avslutade koret bestående av en enda travé med runda diagonalribbor. Man byggde även på tornet på höjden.
Redan under 1240-talet dekorerades de fyra valvkapporna. I den östra målades livets träd med roten i en av bäckarna i Edens trädgård. I norra och södra kapporna finns fler träd och även valvribborna är ornamenterade. I livets träd har ett par fåglar slagit sig ned. De, d.v.s. människosjälarna, beskjuts av ondskans makter förklädda till jägare, men pilarna studsar tillbaka mot skyttarna. I den västra valvkappan uppträder den onda makten i form av en uppflygande drake, vilken öppnar sitt gap mot livets träd. I en medaljong under livets träd övervakar Kristus det hela. Cirka 1265 var kyrkobyggnaden och dekorationerna klara.
Omkring år 1330 gästade en betydande konstnär kyrkan. På triumfbågens norra sida målade han Maria med Jesusbarnet, ett ovanligt högklassigt konstverk.
Vid följande sekelskifte uppträdde den så kallade "Othemsmästaren", som gjorde kalkmålningar även i Fide kyrka på Gotland. I Othem målade han Kristus som konung omgiven av lärjungarna, samt på var sida om altaret, aposteln Paulus och Sankt Dionysius, biskop, och kanske kyrkans skyddshelgon.
År 1693 överkalkades alla medeltida målningar och i koret insattes en altaruppsats av sandsten.
På 1730-talet installerades predikstolen och sannolikt var det under 1740-talet som kyrkan fick en ny bänkinredning.
År 1774 byggdes en ny läktare. Läktarbarriären dekorerades 1776 av sergeanten och kyrkomålaren Johan Nicolaus Weller (1723–1785), som målade de fyra evangelisterna och Jesus vid tolv års ålder i Jerusalems tempel.
År 1854 installerades en kyrkorgel av orgelbyggaren Anders Vilhelm Lindgren (1807–1860) från Stockholm. Fortfarande finns hans orgelfasad kvar, trots att innandömet blivit utbytt.
En natt i mars 1908 antändes kyrkan och på morgonen hade träet i såväl tornet, som över långhuset och koret förtärts av elden. Man hann larma med kyrkklockan innan den föll ned och spräcktes. Lyckligtvis hann man rädda lösa inventarier, bl.a. kyrksilvret och alla gamla handlingar. Branden berodde förmodligen på brister i uppvärmningssystemet. Året efter hade kyrkan fått nytt tak över långhus och kor. Nu passade man på att ta fram de gamla medeltida målningarna som kalkades över år 1693.
Är 1952 restaurerades kyrkan efter ett förslag av arkitekten Erik Fant (1889–1954).
År 2000 renoverades kyrkan och i augusti 2004 kunde man se en takmålare klättra högst upp på kyrktornets spira.
Altaruppsats i sandsten föreställande "Jesu korsfästelse", skänkt av Mårten Fries och Margareta Schröder 1693.
Dopfunt, vittrad, från omkring år 1200 möjligen av Sighraf,
Triumfkrucifix med den "segrande Kristus".
Predikstol och ljudtak från 1700-talet.
Dekoration på läktarbarriären "de fyra evangelisterna" & "Jesus vid tolv års ålder i Jerusalems tempel", målad 1776 av Johan Nicolaus Weller.
Nutida träskulptur ovanför dopfunten föreställande "Maria med Jesusbarnet", utförd av skulptören Bertil Nyström från Slite.
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Many of them calls this place their second home, it's about a group of elderly people coming to "Harmony Centre" in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Home is the place where you find the warm welcome, where you can stay with others, where you feel warm, cozy and never hungry. They have no more neither the strength nor the health to work, most of them are jaded heavy, had long-term work, some had even important positions, and there are artists, doctors among them.
Empire, which promised so much left them with nothing, and when they found themselves with no children, husband or wife they realized they have nothing to live for and are completely alone. Then they discovered "Caritas” and Polish priests there. And there was prepared a place for them - "Harmony Centre", where they felt as those who have not been forgotten. So it was like this for the last few years. Today "Harmony" wants to live, to open its doors to those who knows what it means to be there very well, and also for those who come here for the first time and will stay.
... But its functioning is threatened; those who were the sponsors of the Centre due to various reasons cannot support it any longer. Without the support it will be closed this autumn. Some of the elderly, to whom yet no one said anything, as if sensing ask: “What will happen to me when “Harmony” will be closed, I do not have anyone?”
Why the "Harmony"?
“Almost all who come to the "Harmony" are lonely people. In their homes often they do not have hot water, heating - says Nana Nadzlviszvili, manager of the Centre - With us they can be together with others, not alone. For them, it is important to take a warm shower and stay in heated rooms, especially when winter comes. In the capital fairly common feature is the view of elderly people begging on the streets. Caritas Georgia helps as much as it can: organizes the canteen, clothing distribution point and etc. State aid granted to senior citizens social support, which, when converted into zloty, is 180 zł (43 EUR).
For whom is the “Harmony”?
In the "Harmony Centre" there are currently 40 people. They are lonely, sick and destitute people.
- I am a war veteran. I took part in the war in Belarus, Ukraine and Poland. I met Polish people, took care of them that is why I highly respect them. They are very friendly and warm people. "Harmony" is everything to me. My older daughter has died, and if there was no "Harmony" is would definitely lose my mind. Although it is difficult for me, here I feel much better. I am very grateful, thank you, that there is "Harmony" - says Ivlita Kuciaidze, age 92. Among the 40 mentees there are Ola Gardawa, age 87 (engineer), Raisa Giekowa, age 87 (physician, virologist), Dina Bogorodieckaja, age 88 (teacher), Emilia Manukoglian, age 67 (constructor, doctor). Collecting means for seniors in Georgia will continue until the Day of Grandparents, which in Poland is celebrated on 21st and 22nd of January. In Georgia this grandfathers and grandmothers have no one to help. They were alone. Can we support them? As Fr. Jerzy Limanówka, President of the Foundation Salvatti.pl noted - 3€ payment will be used to buy food, 5€ for food and cleaning, and 10€ for food, cleaning products and medications. There are no small amounts. "If the drop said: I'm not needed, there would be no ocean."
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