The area around Trier is holding a bunch of records for the oldest buildings and structures in Germany. The rationale for that are Roman structures, which haven proven especially durable. While the Southwest German city is rather famous for its…
LWL Open Air Museum Hagen
At the beginning of July, my wife and I visited the LWL Freichlichtmuseum Hagen, the LWL Open Air Museum in Hagen. The place is a collection of historic buildings, which have been moved to the museum and re-arranged so that they illustrate…
Esterwegen Concentration Camp Memorial
During the Nazi regency in Germany, the Emslandlager (Emsland Camps) was a group of concentration and detention camps in the Emsland region, Northwest of the country. Nowadays, the former Concentration Camp Esterwegen has been turned into a memorial site. I visited the…
Grenjadarstadur Turf House Museum
There are a few Turf House Museums you can visit in Iceland. The UNESCO is even thinking about putting this unique kind of architecture on the list of World Heritages. During my trips in summer 2021, I visited a nice…
Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
The same faith which applies to Oswiecim in Poland (better known under the former German name Auschwitz) is also valid, maybe even more, for Brzezinka. As Birkenau, about one million people were systematically murdered in the gas chambers of the Concentration…
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Auschwitz is a town’s name (adopted to German) which you typically link with murder, cruelty, state-organized mass killings, injustice. A place which is unfortunately not unique in history, but definitely one of the most depressing ones. I have been to…
Papenburg Von-Velen-Anlage Open Air Museum
Papenburg has some more interesting places other than the famous Meyer Werft. At the opposite part of the town, my wife and I visited the Von-Velen-Anlage, which is an open air museum reminding of the original lifestyle in the area…
Bergisches Museum for Mining, Craft & Trade Bensberg
The story why I felt I had to visit the Bergisches Museum für Bergbau, Handwerk und Handel – the Bergisches Museum for Mining, Craft & Trade, is quite a funny one. In my review posting about Schloss Burg in Solingen,…