Tag: Frankfurt am Main

A service of love and charity

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“The science of healing is but a daily service of love and charity to foster the wellbeing of sufferers!”

This quote and many others by Johann Christian Senckenberg are painted on the walls of the Bürgerhospital in Frankfurt am Main. It was the first hospital open to the townspeople there (an earlier hospital was only open to travellers and pilgrims), founded and built from 1760 onwards by the Senckenberg foundation. He was a physician and natural scientist. After all his wives (he had three) had died as well as his children he turned all his money over to a foundation which had the aim to help the sick and injured of his hometown. He planned the hospital and died after a fall on the building site in 1772. If interested, here you can learn more about the man.

Linked to Friday Fun: Healing.

Play bridge

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Bridges can offer wonderful perspectives.

This one crosses the river Neckar from Seckenheim to Ilvesheim.

And like this bridge for pedestrians and cyclists in Frankfurt over the river Main called Holbeinsteg.

And some look best with their surroundings like this one over the river Neckar in Heidelberg (which has a monkey the left bank – which coincidentally features in Geriatrix’ post today).

And some look beautiful close up, decrepit as they are, like this over the little stream in Schriesheim.

And some are mere boards crossing a stream for only a few hours. Check out Geriatrix’ Fotogallery for the story behind this little bridge.

Linked to One Word Sunday: Bridge.

Listen: silent

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I never realised that listen and silent are anagrams. And doesn’t this quiet river bend just beg one to be silent and listen?

All the more remarkable because this is in the middle of Frankfurt, a city with three quarters of a million inhabitants, in a part called Bonames. The name goes back to Roman times, probably meaning that there was a bona mansio, a good wayside inn when a Roman highroad led past the area. Not far from this idyllic stretch of the river Nidda was the old Frankfurt airport which was used until 1992 as a helicopter airport by the US American army.

Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Quiet.

With or without

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motors.

Many schools are named for Otto Lilienthal, the pioneer in aviation, particularly near Berlin, where he lived and tried out his gliding contraption.

I’m sure the first people seeing Lilienthal in the sky were as mesmerised as these onlookers – admiring a glider that flies through the air without motor.

A plane taking off from Frankfurt airport and then passing Frankfurt’s skyline:

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to do with jets and planes.

CFFC

It’s not mine

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In the distance there is Frankfurt am Main and if you take a magnifying glass you might see the skyscrapers that gave it the moniker Mainhattan (pronounced mine hattan).

Linked to One Word Sunday: Distance.

Memorial

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Very unlike the usual war memorials I know, this monument is dedicated to all the victims of the first world war.

It was inaugurated in 1920 on behalf of the City of Frankfurt.

Linked to Friday Fun: Memorial.