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Büdingen, medieval town, Germany’s best kept secret
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Around 700, the wooden church of Saint Remigius was built. Today, 1300 years later, Büdingen is an attractive family orientated medieval town complete with fortified walls, watch towers and town gates as well as a castle in which the original family is still in residence. Büdingen is one hour drive from Frankfurt. We visited in July and there were only a few tourists in town leaving us to freely roam and explore at will. Beautifully restored buildings with lots of colourful flower arrangements and trees about, many comfortable eating places to choose from, make this town a very enjoyable relaxing place to visit. In Büdingen every eating place is perfect.
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5 interesting facts about Check Point Charlie, Berlin
Checkpoint Charlie was the name given by the Western Allies to the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. The name Charlie came from the letter C in the NATO phonetic alphabet; similarly for other Allied checkpoints on the Autobahn from the West: Checkpoint Alpha at Helmstedt and its counterpart Checkpoint Bravo at Dreilinden, Wannsee in the south-west corner of Berlin. The Soviets simply called it the Friedrichstraße Crossing Point. Here is five interesting facts about the Check Point Charlie.
About Berlin:
Germany has never been high on the list of lovely, sophisticated miss-it miss- out weekend destinations. But don’t be tempted to bypass modern Berlin in preference for the more obvious delights of old timers like Paris and Florence. Berlin is a city full of history and there’s really no better time to go.A city buzzing with fresh excitement, Berlin is cleverly balancing its turbulent past with a new gloss, preserving the old while facing the future as an incredible architectural showcase.
If you plan to visit Germany any time soon, here is Berlin at a glance
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Former military Airfields in East Germany explored on a BMW R1200GS ADV
Impressions of any day trips into my region where exists old airfields from world war 2 and cold war.
Charly ckeck point and Berlin Wall tour, Berlin,Germany
What is Checkpoint Charlie?
Checkpoint Charlie was Berlin’s best known crossing point between what was before 1990 communist East Berlin and the American-controlled sector of democratic West Berlin. In 1961, the East German government unexpectedly constructed a wall along its borders to restrict the flow of East Germans trying to permanently flee East Berlin.
Several checkpoints were erected, each laced heavily with barbed wire and carefully guarded by East German troops. They had instructions to shoot anyone trying to illegally cross over from East Berlin into West Berlin. More than 1,300 East Berliners died trying to escape via other means and locations along the wall.
In response to the East German Government sealing off East Berlin, the Americans built their own checkpoints. The three American checkpoints, Checkpoints A, B & C, were named using the phonetic alphabet. Checkpoint A was known as Checkpoint Alpha, Checkpoint B was Checkpoint Bravo and Checkpoint C was Checkpoint Charlie. Checkpoint Charlie was the most well-known of the three because it was the only checkpoint through which diplomatic personnel, American military and non-German visitors could pass into East Berlin.
Unlike the East German checkpoint border house and guards, the American checkpoints were not meant to restrict the movement of people between East and West Berlin. They were mainly there to inform people in no uncertain terms that once they crossed the checkpoint into East Berlin, they were no longer in a democratic society.
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Abandoned Theatre - East germany
This is the first time Im sharing an exploration , so please forgive the bad editing.
Also , the video was cut short because the person I was exploring with got hurt (You can hear it at the end of the video). A block of concrete detached from the wall and fell onto him.But he got away with a few scratches.
Hope you enjoy :)
Background facts:
This theater was build in 1889 , it served as a Prison during the second world war. It went back to serving as a theater till 1986 when it was eventually closed due to the collapsing of the roof.The city has plans for demolition but local activists are protesting against the destruction of this piece of history.
Der Checkpoint Charlie im Umbruch.
Checkpoint Charlie
Eine Beobachtung des Treibens am ehemaligen Kontrollpunkt.
Alliierter Kontrollpunkt
Der Kontrollpunkt durfte nur von alliierten Militär- und Botschaftsangehörigen, Ausländern und Mitarbeitern der Ständigen Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bei der DDR sowie von DDR-Funktionären benutzt werden.
Der Kontrollpunkt war einer der drei durch die Amerikaner genutzten alliierten Kontrollpunkte. Er wurde nach dem dritten Buchstaben gemäß dem Internationalen Buchstabieralphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, ...) benannt. Der Checkpoint Alpha war die amerikanische Seite des Grenzüberganges Helmstedt-Marienborn an der heutigen Bundesautobahn 2 und der Checkpoint Bravo die amerikanische Seite des Grenzkontrollpunktes Dreilinden-Drewitz an der heutigen A 115.
Die Nomenklatur Checkpoint für Kontrollpunkt ergibt sich im Gegensatz zu der östlichen Bezeichnung Grenzübergangsstelle (GÜSt) daraus, dass von westlicher Seite aus die völkerrechtliche Legitimität als Staatsgrenze nicht anerkannt wurde. Diesbezüglich trat nach der Anerkennung der DDR als Staat ab 1972 für die innerdeutsche Grenze eine Veränderung ein, nicht jedoch für die Sektorengrenze Berlins.
Als Folge des Versuchs der SED-Führung, alliierte Rechte der Westmächte in Berlin einzuschränken, standen sich am 27. Oktober 1961 sowjetische und amerikanische Panzer gefechtsbereit gegenüber.[2] Heute weiß man, dass die Kommandeure beider Seiten den Befehl hatten, ihre Panzer notfalls einzusetzen. Im November 1961 reagierten die USA auf die neuere Berlinkrise mit der Operation Stair Step. Dabei wurden über 200 Kampfflugzeuge aus den USA über Kanada und die Azoren nach Frankreich verlegt und kehrten erst im August 1962 wieder in die USA zurück.
Der Checkpoint war Schauplatz spektakulärer Fluchten aus dem damaligen Ost-Berlin. Besonders tragisch war der Tod des DDR-Flüchtlings Peter Fechter, der am 17. August 1962 vor den Augen westlicher Beobachter verblutete. Der Volkspolizist Burkhard Niering nahm 1974 einen Passkontrolleur als Geisel und wurde bei dem folgenden Fluchtversuch erschossen. Hans-Peter Spitzner aus Karl-Marx-Stadt war der letzte Flüchtling vom Checkpoint Charlie. Am 18. August 1989 überwand er die Grenze mit seiner Tochter im Kofferraum eines Alliiertenfahrzeugs.[3]
Noch vor der Wiedervereinigung wurde am 22. Juni 1990 der Kontrollpunkt im Rahmen einer Gedenkfeier abgebaut. Er ist heute im Berliner AlliiertenMuseum zu besichtigen.
Der Checkpoint Charlie zählt heute als Gedenkstätte zu den bekanntesten Sehenswürdigkeiten Berlins. Am 13. August 2000 wurde eine originalgetreue Rekonstruktion der ersten Kontrollbaracke enthüllt. Die aufgestapelten Sandsäcke sind mit Beton statt Sand gefüllt. Auf dem brachliegenden Gelände entwickelte Ronald Lauder die Idee eines American Business Centers. Von den geplanten fünf Gebäuden wurden drei errichtet, darunter das Philip-Johnson-Haus.
Flat39, Wiehl, Germany - Reviews
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Located on the 1st floor of a newly built house in Wiehl, this one-bedroom apartment offers a fully equipped kitchenette, free Wi-Fi and a flat-screen TV with DVD player.
Continent: Europe,
County: Germany,
City: Wiehl,
Location Address: Jennecker Str. 39,
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Umschagplatz today
The Warsaw Umschagplatz was the point of deportation to the Treblinka death camp. In the summer of 1942 around 250,000 people and in 1943 around 50,000 people passed through it on their way to death. This is what it looks like today.
(The quality of the film may be worse than usual as I had to reduce it to meet with You Tube requirements. I am not familiar with use of the movie maker software and apart from that do not have time to learn it so I apologise in advance.)
Filmed on 17 and 24 February 2007.
My channel on you tube : is one of the most prolific from Poland, although unfortunately not the most visited. With almost one film per day, one may be forgiven for thinking I do nothing else but I do have a day job as well. I have produced more than 400 original films, most in English but also in Polish, French, Italian, Spanish and the occassional hint of German and Hebrew. My big interest in life is travel and history but I have also placed films on other subjects
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There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging -- - the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focussing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region and the sites and give a pretty good idea where future films are going to come from! Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
In 1997 I founded Polish Business News .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
My blog can be found via and and contains background information and more details of many of my films. This information is in English.
I have also a second blog on the site . This site has been recently started by a friend and I think it will soon be one of the leading travel sites in Poland, if not Central Europe. It contains additional information about some of the places and events shown in these films but most of that is in Polish.