wieskirche - unesco heritage site - 1739

wieskirche = unesco heritage church from 1739 in wies (steingaden) in bavaria /germany. of course we have enjoyed the opportunity to walk in the nearby moor / swamp landscape and i also jumped in the cold, cold, cold moor lake out there ...

enjoy few pictures:

pearly gates (himmelstor) up there :-)

wieskirche

inside the church (kirche)

lunch time? bavarian butter milk :-)

swamp walkway

hotel + restaurant römerkessel over the lech river in fuchstal (since 1572)

more pictures here
more bavarian lakes here :-)
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taxi am shabbat

the reason for our visit in dachau was the world premiere of the new book (in german) about the last jews in eastern europe written by my cousin eva gruberova and her husband helmut zeller: taxi am shabbat

if you asked me, the book has a character of a documentary as it describes many individual fates from jews in hungary, ukraine, slovakia, czech republic, lithuania ... we bought one of the much to few prepared samples (the printery / publisher was not ready for all that interested readers, i guess), so i will post an update when i read through, promissed. but please be patient as i have actually 2 another books in my reading pipeline :o)

of course, we enjoyed the opportunity to walk around in dachau and discovered a beautiful hundertwasser-style house out there:

in the middle of the picture you can see part of the dachau castle on a small hill

 after the solemn reading there was a lot of time to celebrate with family & friends afterward :-)

 good-bye dachau, i hope to see you soon again

more pictures here

their former project was the documentary born in concentration camp
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oktoberfest 2017

oktoberfest2017 is over => but let's look back for a while :-)

how everything begun in 1810

how it begun in 2017: the run for beer or were all of these folks hypnotized by colleague of my wife olf (hypnotist; but during the oktoberfest an almond seller in family business) who made this video from INSIDE the feast area. who knows?

if you asked me, this video reveals a lot what is wrong in our world. in order to help others + save the nature there would not be that many folks running like crazy for a beer here, would they?

enjoy few pictures and insights as i have been this year twice. at the very first day (09/16) and at the very last day of this oktoberfest (10/03) ...

 two of us

augustiner beer is currently the probably most popular bier in munich

löwenbräu beer tent

... the oide wiesn (the old oktoberfest) is a paid area with few historic attractions

family on tour :-)

 late(r) at night

more pictures? here

few pictures from an earlier visit? here

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anger - höglwörth

have you ever seen this beautiful augustinian monastery from 1125 close to bavarian border when entering salzburg / austria? me, stupid, neither :-(

source/quelle: http://mein.salzburg.com/fotoblog/heimat/2013/08/kloster-hoglworth-7.html

(Das St. Peter und Paul geweihte Augustiner-Kloster wurde 1125 durch Erzbischof Konrad I. von Salzburg gegründet.)

let 'save' here the idea to visit this beautiful monastery and beautiful lake höglwörther see next time when i will travel to austria and /or slovakia.

well, we made a break from long distance driving in the nearby sleepy village of anger, but i wasn't clever enough to ask google what interesting can be seen in the area. next time i will be smarter, promised. at least i wasn't angry when leaving anger as at that point i didn't know what i have missed just 2 or 3 kilometers away :-)

enjoy few pictures from (village) anger anyway:

 let's stop for lunch over there :-)

can you see the highway below?

more pictures here
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stift melk ~ melk abbey ~ austria

on the way back from slovakia we stopped by in melk abbey (benediktinerkloster stift melk, vorher auch stift mölk) in the wachau area of austria, at the beautiful unesco heritage benedictine monastery built 1702–1746 above the danube river. 

it is beautiful from outside + from inside, my dears and among others, it accomodates austrias oldest still operating high school (gymnasium).

enjoy few pictures:

the church inside melk abbey as seen from the river danube ~ source: thomas ledl / CC-BY-SA 4.0 / wikipedia (english)

inside the church

looks like crazy chemtrails over the blue sky, doesn't it?

library ~ source rollroboter/CC-BY-SA 4.0 / wikipedia (german)

hello dad :-)

more pictures here

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