Hi Mummy,
as the weather was fantastic (after weeks with lots of rain, like Katja told me) we outside to take a walk. The first photo was taken close to my current home, an area in the city with a lot of nice old houses.
Remscheid is an old industrial town. Tools are produced here since middle ages. You can find a lot of old industrial sites among older dwellings.
The city centre is situated on top of a hill, which is surrounded by valleys with many forests, rivers and creeks and also rural landscape and farm land.
We reached one of the oldest districts in the municipal area than. It is called Hasten. You can find many of those houses here, which are typical for this region, half-timbered houses and houses which are covered with slate, both with usually green shutters and doors.
Those houses were usually built from late 1700s years until early 1900s years.
In this district you can also find a lot of industrial sites among dwellings.
They have a little quarter center here with shops, restaurants, banks and so on.
Those houses on the left side of the next photo are some of the oldest here in this district. They were built extremely close together.
This Patrician Villa was built in 1778/1779 and is one of Remscheid's landmarks. It was built by two brothers, rich merchants. Later the city's mayor was living in this house. Nowadays a museum is situated here.
Next we walked through a housing area, mostly you can find one-family houses here.
We came back to the centre of Hasten, here you have many companies and crafts enterprises.
When we already were tired from walking so long Katja told us that we would have to walk uphill now, we took a path in the municipal park, which is really large, extending along this hill with the city centre on top.
That was a very interesting first day in Germany, but now I'm tired. I need a banana and than I will probably fall asleep immediately.
Bye
Owen
