Blaustein, Germany - 10th February 2013
By: fam-united
Today I joined my host on a trip to Blaustein. Her son studies at the university of Ulm and she visited him over the weekend. He has a nice view out of the window and today we had been really lucky, because the sun was shining.
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Posted Mar 29, 2013, 4:35 pm
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Blaustein, Germany - 10th February 2013
By: fam-united
Blaustein is a municipality in the district of Alb-Donau Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is situated on the Blau River, 6 km west of Ulm and has about 15,000 inhabitants.
It was created in 1968 after the union of Ehrenstein and Klingenstein and some more municipalities joined.
It is home to one or more prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.
View to Löwenfelsen in Ehrenstein
The river Blau really shimmers blue sometimes. The name comes from the celtic name Blava. The blue colour comes from light scattering due to the high chalky spring water. River Blau is a left tributary to the Danube.
It was so so cold, that we hurried home again after these two photos.
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Posted Mar 29, 2013, 5:13 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 28th February 2013
By: fam-united
Today I watched tv, because it was a special day. We followed the flight of former Pope Benedict XVI. out of the Vatican.
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Posted Jun 2, 2013, 9:29 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 4th April 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
I arrived in Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia today. I came here with Manganinnie.
Another ToyVoyager, Easy and my new host Katja gave us a warm welcome.
The weather outside is not good, so we stayed at home today.
Bye
nosyblue
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Posted Apr 6, 2013, 1:11 pm
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Remscheid, Germany - 6th April 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
in the late afternoon we took a walk in the city. We went to the district Hasten, one of some historic districts of Remscheid. Here you can find many traditional houses. These are timber-framed houses or they are covered with slate, sometimes you can find both in one house. Both types usually have green shutters.
This Patrician villa, built in late 18th century by a rich factory owner, is a museum nowadays. You can see how people lived than, it is furnished in it's original style.
From here we walked to the municipal park. Katja showed us this memorial, dedicated to the dead of several wars before WW I.
An observatory is also situated in the park.
There is a small pond in the park, ducks and turtles are living here. There is still some ice left!
We left the municipal park to walk home. We came along another park, a really small one It is situated in front of the police headquarter. The pillar is showing the coat of arms of Remscheid and its twin city Quimper in France.
In this quarter there are also lovely old houses.
In the background you can see the tower of the city hall.
Almost home ...
We are living here at the moment, opposite of the park. When we look out of the kitchen window, we can look across the park.
Bye
nosyblue
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Posted Apr 10, 2013, 8:43 am
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Remscheid, Germany - 18th April 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
today my host was really busy, but at least we took a few photos when we went home at lunch time.
This is the city hall with its tower, about 48, high.
Close to the city hall you can find a water tower, for drinking water supply for the people in the city centre.
Bye for today
nosyblue
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Posted Apr 23, 2013, 8:59 am
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Remscheid, Muengsten Bridge, Germany - 5th May 2013
By: olgamaus
Hi Mummy,
unfortunately my host is having problems with her left achilles tendon, so we were not able to take any excursions last week. Today the weather was so great that she could not resist to got out with us.
We decided to visit Muengsten Bridge, Germany's highest railway bridge.
Muengsten Bridge is overspanning the valley of the river Wupper, connecting Remscheid and the neighbour city Solingen.
The parking lot was close to a creek, Morsbach.
We found information boards all along the path, this one is about hydro power and landscape.
This is river Wupper, flowing towards Muengsten Bridge and later mouthing into river Rhine.
Soon we reached Muengsten Bridge.
The bridge was built of steel in late 19th century, it is 465 m long and 107 m high. You can find more information here, in German.
The bridge is so wide that it is nearly impossible to take a proper photo of the whole bridge. Of course our host knows the location where she could take a halfway proper picture. On our way there we had a look at the leisure park which was built under the bridge some years ago. You can find large lawns with benches for relaxing, playgrounds for the kids, a crazy golf course and riddles.
An artist blacksmith is working here. He made fantastic sculptures, like this shark.
Although it was quite early there were already lots of people enjoying the fantastic weather in the leilsure park.
Due to a lack of rain river Wupper has a low water level.
We relaxed in the sun and Katja made a froral wreath for me .
Here we took the perfect photo
We went along the hiking path than, seeing the bridge really often through the trees.
You can find engraved rocks along the path, here we saw hand patterns.
Here we crossed river Wupper.
We decided to not walk back along the slope of the valley, but to stay at waterside level and take the ferry back across the river.
Even in late 19th century there was a ferry service to cross the river!
The ferry is not a boat, but sort of a cabled ferry. It is crossing the river by muscular strength.
By using the ferry we shortened the way back, now we went through the leisure park again.
We found this replication of Muengsten Bridge embedded to the landscape.
Later we found a machine which makes souvenir coins out of 5 ct. coins. Katja made one for each of us
This was enough for our host's damaged foot
Bye
nosyblue
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Posted May 5, 2013, 5:12 pm
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