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Bruchsal, Germany - 24th October 2009
By: fam-united
Hi Mum
Here you see me and my friends waiting for the start of our travel to Oelsnitz, Vogtland, where we want to stay for one week.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 9:17 am
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Oelsnitz/Vogtland, Germany - 25th October 2009
By: fam-united
Oelsnitz is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Weiße Elster, 9 km south of Plauen. We stay in a beautiful house called Finsterbusch's Häusl.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 11:50 am
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Muldenberger Talsperre, Germany - 25th October 2009
By: fam-united
On our way to Kingenthal we passed at the Muldenberg river dam. It provides about 100 000 people with water. The dam wall has the longest mural crown of all river dams in Saxony. It was built in 1920 - 1925.
The weather was very cold and windy and it drizzled. So we hurried back to the car.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 12:10 pm
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Klingenthal, Germany - 25th October 2009
By: fam-united
Klingenthal is a town in the Vogtlandkreis district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated directly on the border with the Czech Republic opposite the Czech town of Kraslice, 29 km southeast of Plauen, and 33 km northwest of Karlovy Vary.
The Aschberg ("cinder mountain") towers above the town at 936 m. The extremely elongated town, 10.5 km from end to end, is surrounded by numerous woods of firs.
The town is bisected by the Döbra and Zwota rivers. These two rivers unite at the Czech-German border to form the Svatava river, which in turn flows into the Ohře river at Sokolov.
Klingenthal's inhabitants number 8,996 (September 30, 2005). The town is famed for its manufacture of musical instruments and is a well-known ski resort.
We visited the Vogtland-Arena, a wellknown ski jump in Germany. The first ski jump was opened in 1959, the new Vogtland-Arena was opened in 2006.
I was really impressed by the altitude of it.
With this train we drove up the hill.
Wow, isn't it high?
I would love to meet some of those ski flyer, but unhappily there is no training today.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 12:18 pm
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Talsperre Pirk, Germany - 25th October 2009
By: fam-united
In the evening my host and one of her sons took as on a walk along the Pirk river dam. Maybe just enjoy the photos as our hosts did it in reality.
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Posted Nov 22, 2009, 1:35 pm
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Kuhberg Netzschkau, Germany - 26th October 2009
By: fam-united
For lunch we drove to the Kuhberg, the highest point in northern Saxony. Our lunch wasn't that great and also watching the play train wasn't fun. We only saw some crashs. We wanted to go to the top of the tower, but it was too expensive. So all in all this place was annoying.
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Posted Nov 28, 2009, 7:48 am
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Elstertalbrücke Jocketa, Germany - 26th October 2009
By: fam-united
The Elstertalbrücke is the second largest brick bridge in the world after the Göltzschtalbrücke. The railway bridge is 279 m long and was built between 1846 and 1851 using more than 12 million bricks.
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Posted Nov 28, 2009, 8:13 am
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Plauen, Germany - 28th October 2009
By: fam-united
Later we drove to Plauen to try to find a special beer glas of Sternquell brewery.
Close to the brewery we saw this bridge, the Syratalviadukt.
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Posted Nov 28, 2009, 1:02 pm
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Plauen, Germany - 28th October 2009
By: fam-united
Then we visited the museum of lace from Plauen in the old city hall.
For 120 years, Plauen lace has been a world famous Saxon textile product. Plauen lace and embroideries have their roots in a century-old tradition of making textiles in and around Plauen. Already in the 15th century Plauen was a centre of the clothmaking craft and cotton-weaving. The embroidery craft dates back to as early as 1780.
With the invention a machine capable of making machine-embroidered forms of lace in 1880, the development was open for an economic upswing in the Vogtland, in particular in the town of Plauen. The lace known as "Plauener Spitze" was to conquer the world.
At the World Exhibition in 1900 in Paris, Plauen lace was awarded the Grand Prix. Today more than 150 companies are working in this industrial sector. On national and international markets, Plauener Spitze is in demand again. The scope of supply ranges from room textiles, such as curtains and table laundry, to ladywear, lingerie and underwear.
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Posted Nov 28, 2009, 2:52 pm
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