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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's Germany pictures. |
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| As we went on nothing in the guide book matched what we saw. That's because I repeatedly opened it to tour 3, rather than 4. Finally, after reaching the Eigelstein Gate, part of the 13th century Köln city fortifications, the most extensive north of the Alps, I happened to tour to the right section of the guide and there we were. To the left are the remains of a lifeboat from His Majesty's Ship "Cöln", sunk in 1914 with the loss of 314 lives at the Battle of Heligoland. |
| The statue on the Eigelstein Gate is a replica of one made in 1891. |
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| To the left Garr studies the guide book in the area just north of the gate. | |
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| This is Germany's first "darkened restaurant". All the waiters are blind. If you want to go out very privately, this is definitely the place. |
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| We walked to the Hansa tower, which was in the 1920s the tallest building in Europe. The big attraction there is the "raternoster" or continuously moving elevator. The continuously moving cars hold two people and you just jump on as one of the cars comes level with your floor. One chain of cars goes up and the neighboring chain goes down. We took this up to the 15th floor, the last floor where you chighest floor it services. Then we took the stairs to the 17th floor where we got some pictures. |
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| I was rather concerned about what would happen if one were going up and didn't get off at the 15th floor, or going down and didn't get off at the ground floor, since the cars don't stop. Having had a slight accident when getting off at the 15th floor we didn't take the paternoster down; we took the stairs. | |
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| It was getting late as we left the Hansa Tower and so we skipped a chunk of the last part to the walking tour and then got back on it in time to pass the residenc of the Archbishop of Köln and see this memorial to Sister Edith Stein, who was born Jewish, converted to Catholicism, and was killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz. |
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| There were some great pastery shops in Cologne, and we passed one on the way back to meet Sharon at 5:30. We got there about 5:00, faster than I'd expected, and bought some cake with cherries in it. But it was large, Linda wasn't hungry, and I couldn't eat it all. So I ate the cherries and some of the cake. The pigeons near the cathedral took care of the rest. A oung boy helped me feed them shortly after this picture wass taken. |
| I'd seen Schloss (palace) Augustusburg in February and I really wanted Linda to see it, and take another look myself. We went back there on July 15th. It was originally built by Clement Augustus, including Archbishop of Cologne and Grand Master of the Teutonic Order. Construction was begun in 1725, Clement Augustus died in 1761, and construction was completed by his successor, Elector Max friedrich von Königsegg in 1769. It has been restored once or twice since it's completion and is owned by the German government and used for official receptions and such. |
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| Garr and Sharon. |
| Garr and Linda. |
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