Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Muenster in December

Ueberwasserchurch
St. Lambert's Church
Three cages, where the corpses of Anabaptists ( Jan van Leiden, Bernd Krechting, Bernd Knipperdolling ) were exhibite, after they were tortured to death. It was in 1534.
Prinzipalmarkt

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Weihenstephan, the oldest brewery in the world

In the year 725 Saint Corbinian founded a Benedictine monastery in Freising in the north of Munich. In 1040 beer brewing officially began at Weihenstephan. Since 1921 the name is Bavarian State Brewery Weihenstephan. So this is the oldest brewery of the world. Today the brewery is connected to the University for Agriculture and Brewing which belongs to the Technical University of Munich. The brewery is very old but today it is also one of the most modern. By the way on of the products is named Korbinian, double bock beer with an alcohol content of 7,4 % vol.

Weihenstephan brewery and Braeustueberl Weihenstephan
 
 Part of Weihenstephan brewery
 
Detail


Stephanskeller in the Braeustueberl

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Sunday, November 22, 2009

The biggest Christmas tree of Germany

You can find the biggest Christmas tree of Germany on Dortmund Christmas Market. It is 45 meter high and adorned with round about 40,000 little lights, 20 candles and a 4 m high angel (weight 200 kg). It is built from 1,700 Norway spruces and takes 4 weeks to finish.

in the afternoon

in the evening
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