Recent Posts Tagged With 'Germany'

• Old Henrichenburg boat lift

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 04:57 in photo, Germany, boat lift, henrichenburg, westfälian industrial museum, waltrop lock park, schleusenpark waltrop

  Some month ago I published some photos from the Henrichenburg boat lift, the new lift from 1962. Today I present some photos from the old boat lift. This boat lift was opened in 1899. This lift is 67 Meters long, 8.2 Meters wide, with a draft of 2 Me...

• Contrast in the last October days

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 02:44 in photo, Germany, Autumn, orchids

  In the open air Indoors ...

• Indian Summer

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 09:41 in photo, Germany, indian summer

• World Children's Day

  Posted on Monday September 21st, 2009 at 03:26 in photo, children, Germany, kinder, world children's day, weltkindertag, bettina wegener

  On the 20th of September there was the World Children's Day, celebrated in many countries. In the school of my son, chlidren made drums for this day and they played the drums for many reasons, they have the right do be wrong sometimes, to be loud. An...

• Oktoberfest

  Posted on Sunday September 20th, 2009 at 11:46 in Germany, webcam, festival, munich, bavaria, muenchen, oktoberfest

  The Oktoberfest in Munich the largest festival in the world started yesterday again. It is an festival with an old tradition and now of course a very big business. About 6 million visitors from all around the world come to see this festival every yea...

• In a zoo

  Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 10:31 in photo, Germany, tiger, zoo, elephant, stork

• Picture of this month

  Posted on Tuesday August 18th, 2009 at 02:04 in photo, Germany, deutschland, theme park, cologne, phantasialand, bruehl

  This month I show two pics of dragon, found in the Phantasialand theme park near Cologne...

• Schnitterhof

  Posted on Friday July 24th, 2009 at 05:55 in photo, Hotel, Germany, deutschland, bad sassendorf, schnitterhof

  A 200 year old estate you can see on the following photos. Now it is used as a hotel. It is located near a spa gardens and my character reference for meetings in a very good ambiance.Entrance and reception...

• Wedding day

  Posted on Monday July 13th, 2009 at 11:24 in photo, Wedding, indonesia, Germany, hochzeit, waltrop

  Today is my wedding day and here is a pic of Siti, my beloved wife, and me....

• Picturesque places in Germany 2

  Posted on Wednesday April 1st, 2009 at 09:35 in photo, Germany, deutschland, recklinghausen, waltrop

  There are many old villages and cities in Germany and so you can see many old timber frame construction houses like you can see on these photos. I took these photos in Waltrop, the little town I live in.A part of an old wall with city tower in Reckli...

• Some landmarks in the Ruhr area, Germany

  Posted on Monday March 23rd, 2009 at 08:41 in photo, Germany, deutschland, recklinghausen, bottrop, ruhr area, waltrop, tetrahedron

  Triangular pyramid in Bottrop, Germany, 60 m high and standing on a heap. The highest lookout is 42 m high. You have a panoramic view from here.The "Spurwerkturm" maid of about 1000 wooden guide rails from a former coal mine and you can find it in Wa...

• Berlin, Reichstag building

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 05:18 in photo, berlin, bundestag, Germany, deutschland, glass dome, reichstag

  The Reichstag building was opend in 1894 as the first parliament of the German Empire. In 1933 it was destroyed by a fire. The reconstruction started in 1995 and was completed in 1999. Since April 1999 the Reichstag is seat of the German Bundestag. Y...

• Dresden

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 06:12 in photo, Germany, deutschland, elbe, blue wonder bridge, blaues wunder, schaufelraddampfer dresden, historical paddle steam boat, schloss pillnitz, pillnitz palace

  The old city from the tower of Kreuzkirche churchBlue Wonder bridge and the historical paddle steamer "Leipzig". This passenger steam boat was built in 1929.Pillnitz Palace was the former summer residence of the Saxon royal court, built 1720-22 for A...

• Picturesque places in Germany 1

  Posted on Friday February 13th, 2009 at 05:19 in photo, Germany, deutschland, water mill, münsterland, steinfurt, burgsteinfurt

  The old castle of Burgsteinfurt, Münsterland, Germany, fist mentioned in 1129 with the water mill of the castle, now a restaurant....

• Suspension line in Wuppertal

  Posted on Saturday February 7th, 2009 at 03:39 in photo, Germany, deutschland, monorail, wuppertal, schwebebahn, suspension line

  March 31, 1901, is the date of the official inauguration of the suspension line in Wuppertal, Germany. The operational track is nearly 14 km. There are 20 stations. On a weekday 87 000 passenger use this suspended monorail in the valley of Wuppertal....

• Henrichenburg boat lift

  Posted on Wednesday January 14th, 2009 at 09:30 in photo, Germany, deutschland, waltrop, boat lift, hebewerk, henrichenburg

  On the way to Dortmund port on the Dortmund-Ems-Kanal ships have to pass a boat lift. Very interesting is the new boat lift. It was opened in 1962 and has a trough length of 90 meters and a width of 12 meters In 2005 it was taken out of use because i...

• A fairy tale castle

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 09:49 in photo, Germany, deutschland, bayern, bavaria, neuschwanstein, marienbrücke, mary's bridge

  Neuschwanstein Castle in the southwest of Bavaria looks like a fairy tale castle. This castle was ordered by King Ludwig II ofBavaria and it was opened in 1886. Many fairy tale castle in movies and even in some of the Disneyland Parks are modeled on ...

• Giant Panda in Berlin Zoo

  Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 10:44 in photo, berlin, Germany, zoo, giant panda

  The original Elephant Gate built in 1899 was completely destroyed in the last war and reconstructed in 1984.The most popular resident of the Berlin Zoo is the Giant Panda BaoBao born in 1978 anf in Berlin Zoo since 1980...

• Chameleon

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 10:29 in photo, Germany, zoo, chameleon

  I can remember that many visitor liked to see a photo from a Chameleon and so I show it again this time:...

• A little snow again

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 11:28 in photo, winter, Germany, snow, waltrop

  We had no white Christmas here but now it is getting cold again and when I look out of my window it looks a lottle bit white again....

• View from the Zugspitze, German Alps

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 15:35 in photo, Germany, alps, deutschland, bayern, bavaria, zugspitze, alpen

  The Zugspitze is the highest mountain in Germany, in the south near the border of Austria an 2962 m high. Here you can see the view to the south to Austria and Italy. In the foreground you see the Zugspitz glacier. ...