Historic village near Mainz, but in Bayern, Amorbach

Leave it to Andrew Bossom to feature a village not mentioned in yesterday's post.


I couldn't resist keying along as I watched this a second time:

Tithe Barn
Timber framed house:  Templer's Haus
Mary's Peace Column 17th Century; town was spared.
Lion's Club anniversary with Kyrgyzstani Guests
8th Century Benedictine Monastery
French
Prince of Leiningen was given this principality as his summer residence.
His son married Princess Victoria, Saxe-Coburg Gotha, but he died young.
She later married Eduard, Duke of Kent, and lived next to the monastery before leaving for England.
They became the parents of Queen Victoria, sealing the current lineage to the british throne.
There is quite a story of the Patron Saint of unhappily married husbands (!)  and also of horses and their riders.  In his honor, nearly every 2nd Sunday in May (since about 880 ! but with several breaks, including a long one from 1848-1948), there is a parade -- featuring plenty of horses.

April-April! (Das ist nur ein Scherz...)

Neue Immigrationsregeln . . .


-- Andrew Bossom hat sich etwas lustiges zum ersten April ausgedacht, nicht wahr?

Regarding: German's Compound Nouns

The 2013 banished Mecklenburg Vorpommern law was actually called:
Rinderkennzeichnungs - und 
  Cattle identification  - and

Rindfleischettiquetierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
-- Beef  labeling -- supervision -- assignment/task -- documentation --- law

Grundstücks verkehrs genehmigungs zuständigkeits übertragungs verordnung
 -- Property - traffic -  authorization - responsibility - documentation - regulation

Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerksbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
79 Letters?  Ha!  Doesn't count.  It's a fake.

This may be "fake" but one can order this in a catalog.  Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher.

NOW, the Guinness Book of Records lists this 39 letter word as the longest one actually used:

Rechstschutzversicherungsgesellschaften 
Legal protection insurance companies

25 JAHRE MAUERFALL

Step Into German shared this today on Facebook working up to the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wal.

Diese Sprüche waren an die Westseite der Berliner Mauer gesprüht. Welcher gefällt dir am besten?

Which slogans from the Wall are your favorites?

These slogans were sprayed on the West side of the Berlin Wall. 

• Die Mauer ist in euren Köpfen !   The Wall is in your Heads!
• Arbeiter  und Bauern brauchen keine Mauern!  Workers and farmers need no walls!
• Diese Mauer muss weg!  This Wall must go!
• Reiß die Mauer ein!  Tear down this Wall!
• Mauer, go home!  Wall, go home!

Podcast (with text) of a radio feature about "Art on the Berlin Wall" (transcript starts at 19:40): http://bit.ly/BerlinerMauerKunst

#mauerfall #25JahreMauerfall #deutschland #berlin #stepintogerman #GI_Journal #DEUTSCHLAND25 #learngerman #aatg

See Translation

 

This is one of the clearest explanations I've heard of the events on November 9th 1989.  Thanks Rewboss (Andrew Bossom).  He even mentions these other November 9th in German history:
1848:  Robert Blum execution
1918:  November Revolution
1923:  Beer Hall Putsch
1925:  SS is formed (Protective police= Schutzstaffel)
1938:  Pogramnacht or Kristalnacht v. Jews

Under 6 minutes.

Ghosts of the Berlin Wall: 8,000 Glowing Orbs Span 10 Miles

Article by Urbanist, filed under Installation & Sound  in the Art category.

For the 25th anniversary of its fall, this Berlin Wall installation project will illuminate the historical divide between East and West, temporarily recreating the infamous border with balloons on tethers in place of concrete with barbed wire.


The work, titled Lichtgrenze by creators Christopher and Marc Bauder, will go live over the weekend of November 9th for just three days, inviting residents and visitors alike to retrace a path that in many places has been obfuscated by time and intentional attempts to bury the past.
More on the date, route and purpose from its creators: “From November 7th to 9th 2014, the inner city of Berlin will be temporarily divided from Bornholmer Strasse to Mauerpark and the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, past the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and Checkpoint Charlie to the East Side Gallery: a light installation featuring 8,000 luminous white balloons commemorates the division of Berlin … the installation’s emotional and visual power evokes the dimension and brutality of the Wall.”



The biodegradable light-filled balloons will then be released in unison at the end of the weekend, floating away with messages attached by those who choose to contribute. 
The balloon event will be accompanied by other interactive programs and wall stories.



Every 500 feet along the path of the lights there will be historical footage and imagery of what each area was like when the wall was still intact, leading up to its world-watched destruction in 1989. While there were walls, mines and no-mans-land zones outside of Berlin as well, there is something particularly powerful about the way the boundary impacted Germany’s capital --
slicing it brutally through its center, often cutting streets and even buildings in half.



Additional details from the press release: “The re-imagining of the Wall thru the LICHTGRENZE will be accompanied by  numerous exhibitions, events, and guided tours. A new permanent exhibition will be opened at the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse, and an open-air exhibition conceived by the Robert Havemann Society will be on view along the 15 km-long light installation: 100 Wall stories at the original sites where events took place.”


More on the other simultaneous programs and temporary venues:

 “Large format screens at selected public locations will show impressive film collages made from historic, often little-known footage of the time the Berlin Wall fell. Three of these public venues will also offer extensive guided tours courtesy of Museum Service Berlin. Rounding out the program are a number of info- pavilions and viewing towers offering particularly impressive views of the light installation.”

Warum nicht nach RLP/Hessen fahren?

Schon wieder mit Rewboss!  Nach Limburg und Dietz



The architecture is stunning, and Rewboss enjoys retelling history, too.  What details do you find interesting? 

--Since Limburg is on what was the main road between Frankfurt and Cologne, I like seeing how narrow this road was in places, which seemed to be intentional, forcing traders to stop, and probably pay locals to help move, probably reweigh, potentially pay fees, and then repack everything, while allowing any local competition a good glimpse of the cargo.

Grossostheim ...yes, there really is such a place.

It's not just a Nintendo location.

Rewboss shows us sites from a Market Festival called Schlappeseppel-Fest, including some of the more forgotten arts such as  making paper, printing, spinning, smithing, and cider pressing.

Berlin 5 Part Documentary by

 This series focusing on Berlin is one of several published by REWBOSS  (Andrew Bossom), a Brit who has been living in Germany for quite a few years now.  The following comment summarizes the reception his series on Berlin has been receiving (which also included a potential nomination for Best of YOUTUBE).  I've become a subscriber...

downhill240  18 hours ago

I don't believe there is a more exciting city on the planet than Berlin. It's history is mind-boggling. I will be watching this entire 5 part series again! Great production, great narrative!! Thank you so much for your time and efforts!!

First:  Tips on visiting Berlin:


Thanks to RewBoss

Episode 1: Birth of a Capital


"Here we explore the very oldest parts of Berlin, tracing its history from its beginnings in the 13th century to the construction of the Brandenburg Gate. Along the way we visit the St Nicholas Quarter (Nikolaiviertel), the TV Tower, Museum Island and Unter den Linden."

Episode 2:  From Empire to Republic



"I trace its history from the creation of the German Empire to the Weimar Republic. Along the way, I visit the Reichstag, Schloss Charlottenburg and the Ku'damm, and take a ride on the U-Bahn."

Episode 3:  Nazionalsozialism



In this video, I look at the impact the Nazi period and its immediate aftermath had on the face of Berlin: the Olympic stadium, Tempelhof Airport, war memorials and the events leading up to the division of Berlin.

Episode 4:  The Cold War

 As tensions between the Western Allies and the Soviets increase, East Germany resorts to extreme measures. But life in the divided city is not quite as bad as it could have been.

NEW TO ME:  Soviets killed 153 protesters (mostly construction workers were protesting poor working conditions) on June 17, 1961.  3 days later, the West Berlin Senate approved renaming part of the E-W access road "Straße des 17. Juni". --rsb 

Episode 5:  A New Berlin   Published on Aug 31, 2014

The Berlin Wall comes down, and life can start to get back to normal. What does the future hold for the city?