Tag: Frankfurt am Main

Travel Challenge #3

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I was nominated by Teresa  and by Margaret to post one travel picture a day for ten days without explanation, then to nominate someone else to participate. That’s 10 days, 10 travel images, and 10 nominations. 

The photos I am going to show in this challenge are from travels around Germany and where chosen to introduce my German language students to various German sites.

Here is my third one:

Today I would like to nominate Coreen (you were foolish enough to like my #2 post). There is no pressure to participate, though. But if you share some of your travel photos, have fun! I’ll definitely have a look.

Rewriting history

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From 16th century until 1885 this square in Frankfurt am Main was known as the “Judenmarkt” (the Jewish market). In 1885 it was named officially as “Börneplatz” to honour Julius Börne, an early 19th century journalist born in the Jewish Ghetto of Frankfurt. In 1935 it was changed to “Dominikanerplatz” as names of Jewish people were eradicated by the Nazi government. In 1978 this injustice was rectified by the Frankfurt town council and the square was once again known as “Börneplatz”. While excavating the ground around the square for planned new buildings, the foundations of several antique Jewish buildings, two mikwehs amongst them, were found. After long discussions, the square was remodelled as the “Neuer Börneplatz” (new Börnesquare) which now includes a memorial with the almost 12,000 names of the known Jewish Frankfurt citizens who were victims of the Nazi annihilation policy.

Linked to One Word Sunday: History.

Have a bembel or two

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Äppler

Traditionally, the local cider is served from these jugs. They are called “Bembel” and are typical for the area around Frankfurt in Germany. They are grey with a blue glaze but more importantly if you drink a lot of the Äppler, as the cider is called, you end up “glazed” or in the local vernacular: “blue”.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Grey turns to blue.

Mainhattan

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Frankfurt is the only city in my vicinity that has something of a discernable skyline, the only proper high rise buildings in Germany that I know. Coming to think of it, it’s the only town that comes close to being a city around here. It’s traversed by the river Main and hence it sometimes carries the moniker Mainhattan.

Linked to A Photo a Week: Cityscape.

Linger on, thou art so fair!

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The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany’s banking capital.

The same city but that’s how the skyline presents itself from close up.

And a few renditions on a jacket, a shop sign, and a graffito.

Linked to One Word Sunday: Skyline.

Windows on wine

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If you didn’t know that the city of Frankfurt has a vineyard of its own, you’re not alone. We didn’t know either. And we certainly didn’t expect to find it 20km outside of Frankfurt, in Hochheim am Main.

Here are the windows of the estate, new and old combined:

Linked to Monday Window.