Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For the whole gallery without the little travelogue (and more than just the selected shots) - click on this link: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/?g2_page=1 and work your way through it (it's more or less chronological). Here's a selection. The city of Eisenach simply in the state of Thuringia simply oozes history. It's the birthplace and home of Johann Sebastian Bach: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4417.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4420.jpg.html The city where Martin Luther went to school: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0046.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0050.jpg.html Where composer Richard Wagner spent many a holiday: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0036.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4489.jpg.html Home of the Wartburg, where Martin Luther was hidden from the Catholics and translated the Latin Bible into German: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4541.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0103.jpg.html Home of the memorial to the members of the student movement (Corps) and others who were killed in the struggle for a united Germany between 1864 to 1871 - the architecture is said to be based on a beer "stein" - fencing and beer still play an enormous role in student corps: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0095.jpg.html Anyway, Jens, a friend of mine for over 35 years invited us down to Eisenach and asked my Missus, Frauke, to read from her first book and present the second in his bookshop: Getting there: We never use the autobahn, so we take the scenic routes and make a couple of stops along the way. The first was for a coffee in Einbeck, a small town famous for its brewing excellence - the name "Bock" for a kind of beer is derived from the ancient name of Einbeck, "Einb?ck". The old brewery - "Brauhaus": http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4400.jpg.html The Marktplatz: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4403.jpg.html Our hotel in Eisenach - recommendable -very clean and comfortable family hotel with wonderful K?stritzer black beer on draught and excellent steaks: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4501.jpg.html The city has lots of narrow streets with a mixture of historical and modern buildings - from 15th century, baroque, renaissance, Imperial and Jugendstil to GDR-utility and modern developments after German reunification: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0003.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4478.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4498.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4510.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4513.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4511.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0038.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0040.jpg.html Jens: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0008.jpg.html Jens & Frauke: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0012.jpg.html Bookshop (and Frauke): http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4465.jpg.htm http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/_MG_4470.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0021.jpg.html The "reading": http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0021.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Germany/Eisenach/CRW_0068.jpg.html More travelogue of our third and last day and the trip back home tomorrow. Hope you enjoy them Cheers Douglas