The Electoral Palace (German: Kurfürstliches Schloss) in Bonn is the former residential palace of the Prince-Electors of Cologne. Since 1818, it has been the University of Bonn‘s main building in the city center, home to the University administration and the faculty of humanities and theology. read more…
The Colossus of Prora, commonly known as simply “Prora”, is a building complex in the municipality of Binz on the island of Rügen, Germany. It was built by Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1939 as part of the Strength Through Joy (“Kraft durch Freude” or “KdF”) project. It consisted of eight identical buildings and was 4.5 km (2.8 mi) in length parallel to the beach, with the surviving structures stretching 3.0 km (1.9 mi). read more…
Goethe University Frankfurt (German: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a publicresearch university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens’ university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt. The original name in German was Universität Frankfurt am Main. In 1932, the university’s name was extended in honour of one of the most famous native sons of Frankfurt, the poet, philosopher and writer/dramatist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The university currently has around 45,000 students, distributed across four major campuses within the city. read more…
The Rum Regatta (also spelled Rumregatta, Danish: Romregatta) is the largest gaff-rigged sailing meeting in Northern Europe. Since 1980, every year on the weekend after Ascension Day, well over 100 participating ships meet on the Flensburg Inner Fjord for a regatta that is more reminiscent of a “unserious squadron trip”. read more…
The Albatros – previously Dagmar Larssen, Iris Thy and Esther Lohse – is a three-masted topsail schooner belonging to the “Clipper” club and is used for trips with young people and older sailors. The sailing ship with the relatively high jibboom mainly sails in the German and Danish Baltic Seas. Every year it is moored at Ring-Andersen in Svendborg for winter maintenance work, which is largely carried out on a voluntary basis. read more…
