Great Picture Show Germany

Andreas, thanks for posting that! I couldn't read the captions but the pictures were great! I recognized the one of the Rhine near Rudesheim and Bingen, as I was there a few months ago. Cheers!

Very nice Andreas! There are quite a few places on my list to visit sometime soon. Speyer, Aachen, Quedlinburg, Lübeck, Lorsch, and I also want to go back to Potsdam. Wartburg looks interesting also. Husband has just gone up to Aachen for 2 days, so am expecting interesting reports from him, as we are quite the Charlemagne fans. He did say that there was scaffolding around the octoganal chapel, in case anyone was planning on going there. Have been to the Kölner Dom multiple times, the Limes of course, though I think the Saalburg in Bad Homburg is a good place to visit to see and experience the extent of Roman occupation in Germany, as well as the Isis Temple in Mainz. Those rascally Romans really spread themselves out everywhere.

Jo, Lorsch is about a 30mins drive from Frankfurt. That's an easy one to do. Actually there isn't that much left to see other then some ruins and the Kings' Hall - which, however, is stunning. It's the oldest post-Roman building in Central Europe. Lorsch itself is a village. The main square is nice and opens up right from the Kings' Hall. It's a tpyical Ried-village (Ried is the geological and geographical name of the area North of Lampertheim and South of Darmstadt...).

The picture show starts with a water wheel near Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Hartz mountains, then shows a lake in the Hartz mountains, then you can see cows walking in the Wadden Sea (unique in the world!), then it shows the Horseshoe Colony in Berlin Neukölln, Bauhausarchitecture of the 1920s, the White Town in Berlin Reinickendorf, also built in the late 1920, early 1930s, then colorful windows in Berlin Siemenstown designed by Walter Gropius, then red-ish houses in the garden town of Berlin Falkenberg, built in the 1910s, 3 pictures later you see the skyline of Regensburg, then a Roman Limes fortress (this one is Welzheim but the Saalburg castle North of Frankfurt is even more impressive), then you see a red-pink-ish "chateau" in the Muskauer Park in the Neiße river area, the very East of Germany close to the Polish border, followed by the town hall of Bremen, followed by an aerial shot of Dresden and the Elbe river, followed by an aerial shot of the Middle Rhine valley, then you can see the colorful facades in the streets of Stralsund on the Baltic Sea coast, a city that long was part of Sweden, followed by two facades in the town of Wismar, also on the Baltic Sea coast, then an aerial shot of Stralsund (you can see the beginnings of Rügen island in the background), then industrial archtitecture of the 19th/20th century in Essen (EU Capital of Culture 2010), followed by the convent of Reichenau island, Lake of Constance, then a white bridge in the world-famous Park of Wörlitz near Dessau, another shot of Wörlitz Park, then museum island in Berlin, an aerial shot of Wartburg castle in Eisenach, Thuringia, where Martin Luther lived and worked and translated the Bible, the yellow-ish palace is in Weimar, also Thuringia, followed by the market square of Eisleben, another Lutherstadt (Luther town), and of course the market square of world-famous Wittenberg...

The Kings Hall in Lorsch is what I want to see. It is supposedly similar to the palace built in 680, that once stood in front of where the Frankfurt Kaiserdom stands today. Have watched the computer generated film of it in the Archeology museum, so it piques my interest.

The next picture shows the original Bauhaus in Dessau, followed by an aerial shot of the Cologne cathedral, 2nd largest Gothical building in the world and one of the most holy places of the Catholic church. You then see a fossil from the famous Messel cavern (just South of Frankfurt), then a lot of birds in the Waddenn Sea in the evening, then colorful iluminated ironworks in Völklingen, Saarland. It then moves back to the Hartz mountains and shows you half-timbered houses and a church on top of a mountain in Quedlinburg, then the oldest convent North of the Alps in Maulbronn near Karlsruhe, followed by the old town of Bamberg, then once again back to the Hartz mountains showing the ore mines of Goslar, the only mine that's been in constant use for over 1000 years (!), then the Kaiserpfalz of Goslar (residency of the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nations), then you see the Kings' Hall in Lorsch, then an aerial shot of Sanssouci in Potsdam, summer palace of the Prussian kings and German emperors until 1918, then another shot of the same palace, then the Holsten Gate in Lübeck, the Porta Nigra in Trier, then the cathedral of Hildesheim, then the baroque palace Augustusburg near Bonn, then Wieskirche, which RS fans know well, then Würzburg Residency, and then an aerial shot of the cathedral of Speyer, not just Helmut Kohl's favorite but I, too, think downtown Speyer is one of the most beautiful in Germany (!). The last picture shows the cathedral of Aachen - birthplace of France and Germany...