Portrait: Baron Munchausen

31 January 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  10 minutes

Munchhausen Museum in the former Schulenburg (residential tower) in Bodenwerder © JoachimKohler-HB/cc-by-sa-4.0

Munchhausen Museum in the former Schulenburg (residential tower) in Bodenwerder © JoachimKohler-HB/cc-by-sa-4.0

Baron Munchausen is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia. The character is loosely based on baron Hieronymus Karl Friedrich, Freiherr von Münchhausen.   read more…

The E-Ship 1

1 September 2022 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  9 minutes

in Cardamena Harbour © Lech Dobrosielski

in Cardamena Harbour © Lech Dobrosielski

The E-Ship 1 is a RoRo cargo ship that made its first voyage with cargo in August 2010. The ship is owned by the third-largest wind turbine manufacturer, Germany‘s Enercon GmbH. It is used to transport wind turbine components. The E-Ship 1 is a Flettner ship: four large rotorsails that rise from its deck are rotated via a mechanical linkage to the ship’s propellers. The sails, or Flettner rotors, aid the ship’s propulsion by means of the Magnus effect – the perpendicular force that is exerted on a spinning body moving through a fluid stream.   read more…

New Town Hall in Hanover

12 May 2021 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© Michael Wilkens

© Michael Wilkens

The New Town Hall (German: Neues Rathaus) in Hanover, Germany, is a city hall and was opened on July 20, 1913, after having been under construction for 12 years. It is a magnificent, castle-like building of the era of Wilhelm II in eclectic style at the southern edge of the inner city (outside of the historic city centre of Hanover). The building is embedded in the 10-hectare (25-acre) Maschpark. The Old Town Hall is no longer used as the main seat of administration, but houses businesses and the registry office.   read more…

PS.Speicher Einbeck

1 November 2020 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, House of the Month, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  5 minutes

© Dirk Godlinski/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Dirk Godlinski/cc-by-sa-3.0

The PS.Speicher is a transport museum in Einbeck, Germany. It features the world’s largest collection of German motorcycles, as well as vintage cars, and shows the development of individual transport.   read more…

The Großherzogin Elisabeth

1 August 2017 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Tall ships, Yacht of the Month Reading Time:  5 minutes

© VollwertBIT/cc-by-sa-2.5

© VollwertBIT/cc-by-sa-2.5

Großherzogin Elisabeth is a 1909 German sailing ship built as the San Antonio, a replacement for the 1907 freighter San Antonio which had been lost in a collision at sea.   read more…

The spa town of Bad Bentheim

13 October 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Bentheim Castle - Rose 'De la Grifferaie' from 1845 with an yet unidentified wasp © Kleuske

Bentheim Castle – Rose ‘De la Grifferaie’ from 1845 with an yet unidentified wasp © Kleuske

Bad Bentheim is a town in Lower Saxony, lying in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim on the borders with North Rhine-Westphalia and the Netherlands roughly 15 km south of Nordhorn and 20 km northeast of Enschede. It is also a state-recognized thermal brine and sulphur spa town, hence the designation Bad (“Bath”). In Bad Bentheim is also found the castle Burg Bentheim, the town’s emblem.   read more…

The artists’ colony Worpswede

3 October 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  8 minutes

Kaffee Worpswede (Cafe and Restaurant) © Till F. Teenck

Kaffee Worpswede (Cafe and Restaurant) © Till F. Teenck

Worpswede is a municipality in the district of Osterholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated in the Teufelsmoor, northeast of Bremen. The small town itself is located near the Weyerberg hill. It has been the home to a lively artistic community since the end of the 19th century, with over 130 artists and craftsmen working there.   read more…

The Volkswagen city of Wolfsburg

31 July 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

Wolfsburg Skyline © Cubanito

Wolfsburg Skyline © Cubanito

Wolfsburg is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig (Brunswick), and is mainly notable as the headquarters of Volkswagen AG. Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt. Wolfsburg was founded on 1 July 1938 as the Nazis’ Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben (English: City of the KdF Car at Fallersleben), a planned town around the village of Fallersleben in order to house the workers of the newly opened Volkswagen factories, which were built to assemble the Volkswagen Beetle “people’s car” and remain there today, although Beetle production finished there in 1978, when it was transferred to Mexico for the final 25 years.   read more…

The Lake Steinhude in Lower Saxony

5 May 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Wilhelmstein Island © ChristianSchd/cc-by-sa-4.0

Wilhelmstein Island © ChristianSchd/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Steinhuder Meer or Lake Steinhude is a lake in Lower Saxony located 30 kilometres (19 mi) northwest of Hanover. It is named after the nearby village of Steinhude. It has an area of about 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi), making it the largest lake of northwestern Germany, but it is very shallow, with an average depth of only 1.35 metres (4.4 ft) and a maximum depth of less than 3 metres (9.8 ft). It lies within a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest.   read more…

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