Walked through Cologne today (Feb.23), Germany’s fourth largest and one the oldest cities in the country. The cathedral ( ‘Dom’) is its most famous monument. Construction began in 1248 and was only completed in 1880.
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Cologne Wandering
Walked through Cologne today (Feb.23), Germany’s fourth largest and one the oldest cities in the country. The cathedral ( ‘Dom’) is its most famous monument. Construction began in 1248 and was only completed in 1880. -
Music and Fashion
Frankfurt artists Rainer Michel, a musician and composer of film music, and Pei Li, a fashion designer and painter, today opened a little shop named ‘Korridor’ at Frankfurt’s Sachsenhausen district (Feb.21), where Li’s dresses and Michel’s rare and bizarre instrument are on display. -
Where Anne Frank was born
Ingeborg Strauß (a very friendly and open minded lady), aged 84, holds a photo of Anne Frank while standing in the living room of her appartment at Marbachweg in Frankfurt (Feb.19), the very same appartment where Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929. Anne spent the first two years of her life here. Over the last decades, Ingeborg Strauß has shown her place to many visitors from all over the world. A lot of things are left unchanged since the 1930s, like windows, doors, tiles and the bathtub.
The Franks eventually left Frankfurt in 1933 after the Nazis gained control over the country. In Amsterdam, they were trapped when the Germans occupied the Netherlands. The family was forced into hiding for two years during which time Anne Frank wrote her famous wartime diary (The Diary of a Young Girl) that was published posthumously. Anne died in 1945 at a concentration camp just two months before the end of the war in Europe. Her family and other members of the group in hiding had been betrayed. -
Little Feet
A man sits on a bench at Frankfurt’s central Goethe square while his little legs are getting bored and start to wander about. (Taken Feb.16) -
A Morning at the Power Plant
A coal train arrives at the Westhafen power plant before daybreak in Frankfurt, Feb. 17. The combined heat and power plant (CHP) is fired with coal imported from the U.S and from Russia. Germany’s shift to renewable power sources has brought the share of green electricity up to about 25% – but the rest of the energy mix has become even more heavily concentrated on coal, which now accounts for some 45% of power generation.
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