giesing - faith cure in unknown part of munich

what an interesting faith cure mass and what a nice singing in giesing today. well, the monks and nuns from the temple order (templerorden) sung sooo nice and prayed for the needy folks out of the small audience (15 people?) in their beautiful monastery in the riverside part of munich - giesing. i was so surprised about the location, about the event, about the peaceful mood all over the place ... and there was coffee & cake after the mass too, like in an another world ... well, the 13 monks and 13 nuns of the temple order are probably really different from every day people and their website is also different than i would expect. the most important issue at their website? to save the nature (god's creation) ... so clever, so nice :-)

birkenleiten 35 is the address of this beautiful monastery at the auer mühlbach creek built in 1880 originally as a villa by the jeweler karl winterhalter and bought by the order in 1968.

1880, the unknown part of giesing ... temple order (templerorden / templer) ... what about TSV 1860? that's soccer, of course :-)

the orthodox church

the monastery

good-bye, temple order / templerorden, see ya in october again :-)

temple order (source website)

kraemersche kunstmühle, 1863

giesing

that's how the most people in munich imagine giesing: blocks, blocks, blocks ...

the nearby district harlaching

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schloss kropstädt

on the way back from poland we have decided to make a break and visit s.th. interesting => we have chosen the lutherstadt wittenberg in sachsen-anhalt (martin luther's city wittenberg). well, we had to spend a night in an old castle hotel with just 1 more family out there ... even the hotel employees left the castle island at 8 p.m. we didn't care, my wife likes to talk to ghosts not only for her business purposes (hypnosis + reincarnation) anyway :-)

castle kropstädt 1860, source wikipedia

coat of arms (wappen)

 

 the most rooms and corridors are (just) ordinary furnished as the socialistic era (there was a birth clinic for lone mothers before) took away a lot of former equipment

civil registry office

water ditch around the castle

one beaver's work :-)

good bye, water castle kropstädt

the current castle was built in 1855-1856. originally was there the water castle liesnitz (Wasserburg Liesnitz ~ built 1150 by local robber knights, destroyed 1358 by the wittenberg's.  according to the customs of that era was the site also damned and powdered with salt, so never ever comes any danger out of the place :-)

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