koblenz & rhine shippery.

initially we wanted to do a river cruise on the moselle, but we missed the start ( couldn't find a parking lot right away & thus were too late for the moselle cruise ). we decided to participate on a rhine cruise instead but had some time to kill until the ship took off. so we made a walk through koblenz's inner city.

former prussian government building. this was not far away from our landing.

we've visited a lot of churches in koblenz. now it happened that i forgot where i shot these pictures '_'; i think it was the church of our beloved lady.

forum confluentes, modern architecture monsters.

the roof of the old city halls.

the schängelbrunnen. the boy spits water from time to time :)

entry of the jesuit abbey. it was very modern inside.

a bird on the historiensäule on the görresplatz.

it's very remarkable fountain that tell koblenz's history in different stages.

the last scene.

flowers and grass everywhere. i shot these in the park of the electoral palace.

the rhine side of the palace.

the electoral palace of koblenz.

we made a short walk by the rhine and then walked back to the landing where our ship would be taking off. this was by the pfaffendorf bridge. near the weindorf koblenz.

ehrenbreitstein fortress. the last time we were in koblenz we made our way up there because the german horticultural show of 2011 took place there. it is quite an impressing fortress.

row, row, row your boat...

on the rhine.

the emperor wilhelm and his horse on the german corner ( deutsches eck ).

this is a remnant of the horticultural show. the cable car rides over the rhine and i bet there's a fantastic view on koblenz up there. we never rode the cable cars though, but it's on my list to do before i die '_';

the prussian government buildings from afar.

castle stolzenfels.

st. menas' church.

this caste is quite astonishing. another place i really have to visit.

impressions of rhine villages.

marksburg castle. this castle has never been destroyed.

the three towers next to the castle belong to a silver mine.

martinsburg castle near oberlahnstein.

all hallow's chapel.

a view onto the lahn water mouth and lahneck castle in the background.

this seemed to be some kind of villa.

an old industry building.

pfaffendorf - the nice of the rhine.

there are no words to describe the beauty that is the rhine.

basilica of st. castor in koblenz. then we drove back to wiesbaden, stopped in eltville for delicious italian food.

church st. peter & paul.

november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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