Fireworks and Exploding Chairs - TPF Germany Meet-Up

[LaFoto]

Ah, the town parliament building! Bremer Bürgerschaft it is called. Bremen is town and province (land) in one and has a local parliament like Lower Saxony has in Hanover, and Northrhine-Westphalia has in Düsseldorf, and Bavaria has in Munich, for example, and that parliament meets in that very building. The Old Town Hall (which we visited - and the visit INSIDE was a first to me, too, Anty!) now only is being used for representative functions. And the newer "Bürgerschaft" is the regular parliament today.

 

[Alex_B]

wow, it is a thread, and it is still alive!

 

[LaFoto]

Oh, needs to be: Anty has only posted up to the end of our day in Lüneburg Heath. Her Bremen photos are still missing, ALL she photographed on Thursday, the ice-cream cup on Friday, the good-bye dinner, her bye-bye photos from Saturday and and and. This thread is still VERY alive, I should say!

 

[Corry]

Chris, where did you find your Bremen Abstract motifs? Was it in Boettchergasse?

Avis!
You took photos, too! Wow! Nice to see them! There is an artist hidden inside you, hm?

Oh, and only now, a minute ago, I found the online article on our meet-up here - I didn't think they'd really put anything up, I was convinced they'd consider it a too privately organised thing to merit a mention in the local paper, but lo and behold, they put something out online. It'll never show in print, so I doubt ANYONE has seen this article, ever, but so what?

...ok, so I ran that article through Babelfish to get an idea of what it says...and this is the translation:

Recently Corinna Schleiffer from Lauenbrück could welcome guests from three continents. The enthusiastic Hobbyfotografin invited participants, who divide their passion for the Knipsen and with those them in the context of a relevant Internet Community in connection stand, to the international Meet UP. Among them organized meetings hide themselves from members, with which apart from the technical exchange above all the common fun stands in the center. In Lauenbrück a illustre round with participants from the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA, Canada and Saudi Arabia was together in this kind. Eight days long experienced it a varied program, schipperten times with a launch in Hamburg harbor basins around, paddelten another time with the Kanu from Lauenbrück to Scheeßel or explored by carriage the Lüneburger heath.

I think that German class I'm taking in the fall can't come soon enough!

 

[LaFoto]

Recently Corinna Schleiffer from Lauenbrück could welcome guests from three continents. The enthusiastic Hobbyfotografin invited participants, who divide their passion for the Knipsen and with those them in the context of a relevant Internet Community in connection stand, to the international Meet UP. Among them organized meetings hide themselves from members, with which apart from the technical exchange above all the common fun stands in the center. In Lauenbrück a illustre round with participants from the Netherlands, Great Britain, the USA, Canada and Saudi Arabia was together in this kind. Eight days long experienced it a varied program, schipperten times with a launch in Hamburg harbor basins around, paddelten another time with the Kanu from Lauenbrück to Scheeßel or explored by carriage the Lüneburger heath.

Oh - my - gawd! :roll: "...organised meetings hide themselves from members" ???????????? :scratch:


:lmao:

 

[Corry]

I think that was my favorite snippet, too!

 

[Bifurcator]

Haha...

The Bug Workshop.
He's waiting for customers?

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[Bifurcator]

That's something you never see in Japan coming from a jet!

Those ain't no contrails (compression vapor) you know!?!?! Contrails look totally different than that!

So you have governmental spraying in Europe too? I wonder what it is they're spraying?? One NASA official has recently gone on record admitting that they've been spraying barium and some kind of aluminum powder for the past 7 years for something to do with "weather research". But after 5 or 6 years (or more?) of secrecy and denial - who knows???

 

[Alex_B]

Those ain't no contrails (compression vapor) you know!?!?! Contrails look totally different than that!

those are contrails... the way contrails look like depend on the engine, and the outside temperature, pressure and all... in other worde it depends on the weather and many factors.

if you spray something, you need not go to that height, and you would hardly see anything.

 

[caspertodd]

This has been my lunch time entertainment at work for the past few days. If you guys run out of pictures...I'm sorry, but you're going to have to have another meetup :mrgreen:.

 

[Antarctican]

Bremen!!

Interior of the Bremen train station

Wot's this? A chimneysweep?! Shades of Mary Poppins!

The Bremer Dom. (Sun was in a really bad spot for taking a pic, so this was the best I could do)

The Bremen City Hall (same comment as above...sun was in a very bad spot. And, can you 'spot' the TPF members?)

Statue in the City Hall Square

Shark!!! (Metal artwork on a chimney top…vaguely visible in the above photo)

Beautifully ornate building in City Hall Square

The statue of the four "Bremen Town Musicians" look wistfully towards the chocolate shop (just out of view in the picture)

More to come....

 

[LaFoto]

:cheer: - the thread continues! :cheer:

Good wide-angle photos of the Dom and Rathaus, I am happy to see that at least one went to take "whole building" photos of those two landmarks of the old centre of Bremen, despite the "bad" position of the sun (and yes, it was bad!). Rathaus (town hall) and statue are World Heritage Sights, after all.

The statue of that old knight with his spiky knees is the ROLAND.
In the Middle Ages, a ROLAND became the sign for the freedom of the citizens of a town.
He became the symbol for the indepenence of a town and their rights to hold a market, have their own law courts and therefore freedom. Later the Roland also became the opposing symbol to church law (see how the Bremen Roland boldly faces the Dom as if to say "Look, we follow our own, civil law"). You mostly find Roland statues where Saxon law prevailed. Other German towns with Roland statues are Halberstadt, Halle/Saale, Haldensleben, Nordhausen, Quedlinburg, Questenberg, Brandenburg (and more). (Information taken out of Wikipedia).

 

[Antarctican]

Interesting! I didn't know any of that about the statue. So after reading your excerpt, I googled it too and found a reference that the Bremen Roland dates from 1404, and is the tallest Roland in Germany (26 feet high). One can't really get a good idea of the spiky knees from the angles at which I took the photos, but Hertz got a shot...

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[Jeff Canes]

 

[Jeff Canes]

--The Bremen City Hall (same comment as above...sun was in a very bad spot. And, can you 'spot' the TPF members?)

i see five