Germany - Some photos every few days

[Jobaneu]

In Konz-Karthaus near Trier stands the rest (church and south wing) of a Baroque Carthusian monastery (1689-1730), architect: Vitus Schneider. The Great Cloister wtih the single cabins of the hermit monks and the northern (left) wing of the entrance courtyard have been demolished during the 19th century after the secularization. The inner decoration of the church had been destroyed by a fire.

The monastery (ca. 1750) with its cloister and the cabins (behind the church).


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...Bruno_Konz.jpg

The entrance courtyard with the church and the preserved south wing


http://www.saar-obermosel.de/sehensw...-karthaus.html



by Rudolf Klein http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...selang=de#file

[Jobaneu]

The only "living" Carthusian monastery in today's Germany is Marienau. The monks came from Maria Hain in Düsseldorf-Unterrath. They had to leave their impressive neo Gothic monastery there because of the Düsseldorf's airport development.

Marienau was built between 1962-64 by the architects Emil Stefann and Gisberth Hülsmann in a modern "early Romanesque" manner.


postcard http://www.historische-postkarten.de/index.php?a=9584


uploaded by Gmed http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fájl:Ma...ostor.jpg#file


http://www.seibranz.de/gemeinde/marienau.htm

The Düsseldorf monastery (built since 1869) was demolished in 1964. Today there is the cargo section of the Düsseldorf airport.

[Jobaneu]

Looking from the church's choir back to the nave


http://josbrunonis.blogspot.de/2011/...zu-sein-4.html

The cloister


http://www.seibranz.de/gemeinde/marienau.htm

The refectory


http://www.seibranz.de/gemeinde/marienau.htm

I hope this order of silent hermit monks can persist in our irreligious time, often so vulgar and obtrusive.

[Jobaneu]

During Roman times in Konz was located an imperial villa ( ca. 7 km away from Trier).

The building, summer residence for Emperor Valentinian I, ca 90 x 40 m, was constructed during the first half of the 4th century, used by the imperial court until ca. 400 AD.


http://www.saar-obermosel.de/sehensw...last-konz.html

Today only scarce remains can be seen (this is the outside left apse in the CAD image above, part of the bath section of the palace).


by Johannes Simon http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:Kon...lace.jpeg#file

[Jobaneu]

The main Hannover parish church is the late brick Gothic Marktkirche (14th century), destroyed 1943, but reconstructed.

A painting by Domenico Quaglio (ca. 1830, on the right the old late Gothic Hannover town hall).


http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dateiomenico_Quaglio_Marktkirche_Hannover.jpg&filetimestamp=20110711205611#file

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by harry_nl http://www.flickr.com/photos/harry_nl/


by Der Hexer http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...selang=de#file

[Jobaneu]

The choir

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by Pete Shacky, foreground: historicist facade of the old town hall http://www.flickr.com/photos/temp/


by Christian Behrens http://www.haz.de/Bilder-Videos/Bild...er/Marktkirche

[Jobaneu]

The interior

image hosted on flickr

by Hauptstadt-Bilder http://www.flickr.com/photos/hauptstadt-bilder/

The main altar (ca. 1480)

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by jaime silva http://www.flickr.com/photos/20792787@N00/

Looking back

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by Josef Lex http://www.flickr.com/photos/russianchild007/

[Jobaneu]

The Hannover Zeughaus (1643-49) and the Beginenturm (1352-57) before WW II (ca. 1930)


http://www.stadthistorie.info/vergle...ufer/index.htm

And today.


http://www.stadthistorie.info/tafel/37

The arsenal burnt down by air raids. During reconstruction of the ruin, the half timbered upper floor and the steep roof were replaced by a flat roof (1963-65).

With depressing effect.

The Beginenturm is the last tower of the medieval Hannover city wall which is preserved.

The arsenal houses the museum for Hannover's history.


http://quarknet.de/hannover-tour.php

[Jobaneu]

The old main post office of Hannover, a neo Renaissance building (1878-81, architects: Kind and Böttger).

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uploaded by mibuchat http://www.flickr.com/photos/mibuchat/

Destroyed in 1943 by air raids, the ruin had been demolished. Today there is a shopping centre (2006-08).


by AxelHH http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...206010330#file

[Jobaneu]

The old main synagogue of Hannover, architect: the German-Jewish Edwin Oppler (1831-80), inaugurated 1870, destroyed 1938 by an organized NS mob.


http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...20110821083658

The burning synagogue


1938 by Wilhelm Hauschild https://sites.google.com/site/archit...werke/synagoge

[Jobaneu]

The interior


1872, http://www.wenner.net/?artikelid=G25405

The dome (digital reconstruction)


http://www.cad.architektur.tu-darmst...ver/sld001.htm

[Jobaneu]

The Baroque Marstalltor, the portal of the old vanished riding hall of the prince electors (demolished after 1945), 1714, architect: Louis Remy de la Fosse, today in direct neighbourhood to the arsenal.


http://quarknet.de/hannover-tour.php

The long riding hall and the arsenal (in the background, in the foreground the Marstallbrücke) in 1830


http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...929050301#file

The "Mann mit Pferd" (sculptor: Hermann Scheuernstuhl, 1957) commemorates the old horse watering place on the Leine, which was situated here.


http://quarknet.de/hannover-tour.php

[Jobaneu]

The Marstallbrücke (1736-37, architect: Johann Paul Heumann), on the right the bronze sculpture "Mann mit Pferd"


by AxelHH http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...926203647#file


http://quarknet.de/hannover-tour.php

[Jobaneu]

In 1925 the Küchengartenpavillon (1749, designed by the Hannover architect Johann Paul Heumann) was transferred on the Linden mountain.

Originally the pavilion decorated the kitchen garden of the prince electors down in Hannover-Linden.


by Ra Boe http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...808154941#file

[Jobaneu]

The old, in 1943 by air raids destroyed market hall, inaugurated 1892, architect: Paul Rowald.


http://www.hannover-markthalle.de/chronik.html


© Virtual Pix http://www.haz.de/Hannover/Aus-der-S...t-als-3-D-Film

The successive building, the today's market hall, completed 1954, architect: Erwin Töllner, not really bad, but the old one was much more beautiful.


by Heidas http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...112202658#file

[itchy]

Originally Posted by Jobaneu

The old main synagogue of Hannover, architect: the German-Jewish Edwin Oppler (1831-80)

It was an architecturally interesting and distinct building; kind of early Gothic looking but with a dome for an interesting twist. I really appreciate the selections and the historical context you give them. Danke schön!

[Jobaneu]

The Prussian Govermental Building in Düsseldorf, 1907-11, architect: Traugott von Saltzwedel

The 115 m long main facade


by wiegels http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...122021542#file


© www.bilderbuch-duesseldorf.de http://www.baukunst-nrw.de/objekte/R...dorf--1069.htm


by A. Savin http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...selang=de#file

[Jobaneu]

Adjacent on the left to the neo Baroque Govermental Building is the Higher Regional Court House, neo Baroque too, 1910 by the architect Paul Thoemer, alterations by Heinrich Quast.

Paul Thoemer (1851-1918) was the most successful architect for court houses before WWI in the German Reich.

His buildings express the wealth and power of the Wilhelmine Empire.


by Karl Heinz Meurer http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fileuesseldorf_OLG.jpg?uselang=de#file


by Alexostrow http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...selang=de#file

The former official residence of the presiding judge in the neighbourhood, today a bank, a fine neo Louis XVI villa.


by Karl-Heinz Meurer http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...selang=de#file

[Jobaneu]

Originally Posted by itchy

It was an architecturally interesting and distinct building; kind of early Gothic looking but with a dome for an interesting twist. I really appreciate the selections and the historical context you give them. Danke schön!

For me, it's remarkable, how rich, self-confident and proud the German-Jewish community was before WWI. They were able to build such monumental synagogues and leading non Jewish personalities of the state and the society came to celebrate the inauguration of such buildings.

And then the desaster after WW I, especially after 1933.

Because of the deep fall of the German Empire all too many Germans sought black sheeps and found the German Jews.

Around 1900, perhaps the German Jews were the most respected and successful Jewish community in Europe.

What a terrible catastrophe the Nazis brought upon our country.

The German Jews were one of our most gifted "Germanic" tribes (science, literature, economy).

If they have survived the terror, their families live today mostly in the USA and make the States flourish (2 % of the US population, 25 % of US Nobel Prize winners for example).

[itchy]

Originally Posted by Jobaneu

The German Jews were one of our most gifted "Germanic" tribes (science, literature, economy).

If they have survived the terror, their families live today mostly in the USA and make the States flourish (2 % of the US population, 25 % of US Nobel Prize winners for example).

Indeed having Germanic and Jewish roots seems to equate to intellectual giftedness for the Ashkenazim, and Germany's loss has been our (USA) gain. It's now not hard for me to imagine how a great deal of cultural friction could develop in certain instances, though. I'd better leave it at that.

I love the curved facade of the judge's residence!