Germany - My Home country
Here is a picture of the world-famous Black Forest Cake -
look for the recipe here: Ca4Lady's Kitchen-Cake Recipes
And here are some pictures of my home town - Bremen:
Bremer Stadtmusikanten,
dedicated to the heroes of the well known Fairy Tale
The historic buildings surrounding the City Hall Area
City Hall
Bremer Dom -
our magnificent Church located next to City Hall
If you want to know more about the city of Bremen, please check out their website:
The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen
A commitment to tradition. Together with Bavaria, Hamburg and Saxony, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is one of the political entities which already existed prior to 1945; after San Marino, it is the second oldest city republic in the world. The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen consists of the city of Bremen (543,000 inhabitants) and the city of Bremerhaven (125,000 inhabitants), which lies 65 kilometers farther down the Weser River. The territory in between the two cities belongs to the state of Lower Saxony.
First mentioned more than 1,200 years ago, namely in the year 782, a bishopric since 787, and endowed with the rights of a free city by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in 1186, Bremen joined the Hanseatic League in 1358. With the erection of the statue of Roland in 1404 and the construction of the Town Hall in 1405, the city demonstrated its claim to self-determination. In 1646, Bremen was granted the status of a free imperial city; since 1806 it has called itself the Free Hanseatic City. Bremerhaven was founded in 1827 and elevated to the status of a city in 1851. The state parliament bears the traditional name “Bremische Bürgerschaft“; the state government is called the “Senat“, and the president of the Senat is the Minister President of the state. Every year, on the second Friday in February, distinguished German public figures are invited to the historic “Schaffermahlzeit“ banquet held by Bremen’s maritime community in the Town Hall.
Ports and high tech. Ports and shipping, international trade connections and products of highest quality manufactured by state-of-the-art industries are the foundations of Bremen’s economic life. The container terminal in Bremerhaven is Europe’s largest interconnected container transshipment facility. Every year, nearly 10,000 ships link Bremen’s ports with roughly 1,000 ports all over the world. With an annual volume considerably exceeding one million vehicles (1999 figure), Bremerhaven is Europe’s most important automobile transshipment point. The Free Hanseatic City’s shipyards stand for quality in shipbuilding. Bremen is also one of the centers of the German food, luxury food and beverage industries: Coffee, chocolate, flour, milk products, spices, fish products and beer are the best-known products. Key components for rockets, satellites and the Airbus are developed and built in Bremen, a hub of the aerospace industry. The electrical and electronics industries as well as high-tech industries likewise play a prominent role in the city’s economy. Symbolic of Bremen’s expertise in the field of high technology is the 148-meter-high tower of the Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, in which experiments can be conducted under conditions of weightlessness. The Bremen Securities Exchange – which is over 300 years old – and the commodities exchanges handle trading for all of northwestern Germany.
Marine research and the fine arts. Bremen’s university has about 18,000 students; its primary fields of emphasis are engineering and the natural sciences. Leaders in the area of basic research are the Bremen Institute of Applied Beam Technology (BIAS) and the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics. The Center for Tropical Marine Ecology and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology develop modern concepts for marine research. Bremen is also the home of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. The Bremen Academy for Fine Arts and Music, which focuses on design, the fine arts and music, is nationally renowned as well. The beginning of 1997 marked the reopening of the renovated “Glocke“, the concert hall with extraordinary acoustics.
Bremen’s sights attract millions of visitors to the city every year: the Market Square with the Renaissance Town Hall, the statue of Roland and the Gothic St. Peter’s Cathedral, the famous “Böttcherstrasse“ and the historic Schnoor Quarter. The Bremen Free Market, which has been held on the Bürgerweide for over 960 years, is one of Germany’s largest fairs.
The Art Gallery, the New Museum Weserburg, the Gerhard Marcks House and the Paula Becker Modersohn House display important works of art. The German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven boasts impressive collections from all eras of seafaring as well as a number of historic ships in the museum’s own port. The Theater am Goetheplatz, the bremer shakespeare company, the annual Bremen Music Festival and the International Music Project Bremen are household names for music and theater aficionados.
I would be pleased if you would visit the German website below (it's in English :-)
and find out more about my home country.
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Music playing: A Walk In The Black Forest
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