Merry Christmas

Christmas rose

A Helleborus niger in the snow

Frosty the Snowmann, Computer Controlled Lights from Richard Holdmann

Frosty the Snowman - Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

First winter impressions

The first snow in Germany this year. The picture below I took from a webcam this morning.

Many years ago I visited this place

The second one in the early afternoon afternoon

 

And this in the late afternoon

If you want to visit the webcam, here the link:

Live-Webcam-Ramsau, Bavaria, Germany

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

Some blog awards

Last week  丰富 gave to me some blog awards, thank you very much:

Now I share these awards withe fife more blogger. These are:

A Little Boy's Blog

Something is Just a Dreamer

The Last Reflex: Deja

All about the Garnaat family

Humor and Business

Munich Christkindles Market

Marienplatz

Marienplatz

 

Marienplatz

 

Sendlingertor

Nikolaus is coming today (Saint Nicholas Day)

Christmas fair in an open air museum

 

Never before I saw a Santa playing jazz

December in Bonn, Germany

Christmas tree in front of Bonn town hall

 

Christmas fair in front of wall tower in Bonn

Eid al-Adha

Selamat Hari Raya `Idul Adha

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

"Altes Dorf Westerholt"(old village Westerholt)

Here are 58 old half-timbered houses with many inscriptions that tell us about former times. The are 56 of these houses listed as a historic monument. The first time this village was mentioned in documents was 1047.

Old Henrichenburg boat lift

Some month ago I published some photos from the Henrichenburg boat lift, the new lift from 1962. Today I present some photos from the old boat lift. This boat lift was opened in 1899. This lift is 67 Meters long, 8.2 Meters wide, with a draft of 2 Meters and lift it through a height of 14 Meters to the higher level. It was closed in 1962 after the new was opened. Now it is a part of the Westfälian Industrial Museum. But they could not bring this lift back into use. So we hope they keep in use the new boat lift, now part of the museum too. It will be very interesting in future times to see the the technique from today.

 

A candle for .......

The coming days and weeks are the days of memories, memories of people that died. This year many peple all over the world died by natural disaster. But this year many people died because they wanted to live free. They only wanted to have the right of self-determination. This candle is burning for all of them. On behalf of them I refer to the people of Burma and Tibet.

 

Contrast in the last days of October

In the open air

Indoors

Rainy Friday

On this rainy Friday, everything looks dark and gray, so I want to bring some colors into the life again.

Indian Summer

Tribute to the voice of Latin America

Mercedes Sosa, the voice of Latin America died yesterday, here her most famous song.

Orchids and Lilies

This is a time with many bad news, Typhoons over the Philippines and Vietnam, Tsunami in Samoa, many earthquakes in Indonesia, monsoon in India and landslip in Italy. This we shall not forget, this ugly face of nature. But there is another side of the nature and we can see it too, sometimes.