Magdeburg & Leipzig 2007
On June 2 and 3, 2007 I visited some colleagues from the Internet-platform "Cops-Area", who organized a User-Meeting in Magdeburg, the capitol of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.
Besides the extraordinary "Society-Event" we also visited the Old-Town of Magdeburg, where especially the dome and the house designed by Friedensreich Hundertwasser were very spectacular.
On Sunday, when all participants left Magdeburg, I had still some time for visiting the Old-Town of Leipzig, where I was impressed by the churches St. Nikolai and St. Thomas, where you can also find the grave of J.S. Bach.
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The Journey & The Meeting 2. Magdeburg 3.
Leipzig - Old-Town 4. Leipzig - St. Nikolai 5. Leipzig - St. Thomas 6.
Leipzig - Central Station |
Friday in the evening I started with the Euro-Night-Train
from Vienna Western-Station direction to Leipzig.
Early in the morning I had to change the train and arrived on Saturday, 7 a.m.,
Magdeburg Central Station.
Here my colleague Klaus picked me up and brought me to the "Big Party".
 U3-Subway-Station Ottakring |
 U3-Station "Westbahnhof" |
 The Euro-Night direction to Berlin |
 One car will change direction to Düsseldorf. Don't get on! |
 No prob for an old Interrailer. Literature and liquid food for the journey! |
 At the User-Meeting: Posing for the family-album |
 All participants of the CAT 2007, (taking part on Saturday)! |
 The moderators of the Internet-Platform |
 User "aze01" with his wife and his dog. |
 "Störte" and "Skanner", ...true, male friendship! |
Due to the grey sky and the bad light for photographing I only took a few pics
of the Old-Town of Magdeburg and some of them where changed in photo-experiments
at the computer.
To
the top!
The dome of Magdeburg
(St. Mauritius und Katharina)
Built after 1209 under Albrecht I.
...after a fire destroyed the old church in the 1207.
It is one of the oldest gothic buildings in Germany
The Hundertwasser-House of Magdeburg...
...also called: The green citadel
55 apartments and shops,
900 hundred windows in 300 variations
Colleague Franz Engel in the inner courtyard of
the citadel
After tidying up in Magdeburg I took the train to Leipzig where I walked around
photographing until the early evening.
Again the result was affected by grey sky.
Nevertheless the city and its architecture impressed me!
 The "flash-light-man with the hat"... |
 ...a wonderful relict from the GDR-time. |
 Multicoloured houses near the central-station. |
 Some Places in the Old-Town... |
 ...deserve the title: shabby nice, nice shabby! |
 The old "Stock-Market-House" at the Naschmarkt |
 Goethe-Statue in front of the old stock-market |
 The old town-hall (1556/57) A Renaissance-Building |
 New Town-Hall (1905) |
 The 114 m main-tower makes it to one of the highest town-halls in the world! |
 Bankhouse Kroch at Augustus-Square. Sentence at the wall: "Omnia vincit labor" (Labour defeats everything) |
 Because of the City-Festival a giant-wheel stood at the Augustus-Square. |
 The Mende-Fountain, built in 1883... |
 ...is Leipzig's oldest fountain . |
Die Nikolaikirche ist neben der Thomaskirche die bekannteste Kirche Leipzigs.
Sie war zentraler Ausgangspunkt der friedlichen Revolution in der DDR im Herbst
1989 mit anschließendem Mauerfall in Berlin und der Wiedervereinigung
Deutschlands am 3. Oktober 1990. Die Umgestaltung und Ausstattung des
Innenraumes der Nikolaikirche ist eine bedeutende Schöpfung des Klassizismus.
(Quelle: wikipedia)
The church of St. Nikolai is the most famous church in Leipzig besides St.
Thomas. It was a central point of the peaceful revolution of the GDR in the year
1989 ending in the re-union of Germany on October 3, 1990.
The renovation of the inner room is one of the most important works of
classicism.
 Built after the year 1165 after the bestowal of market- and city-rights. |
 The inner room in classicistic style was desinged in the late 18th century. |
 In 16th century this was one of the starting points of reformation. |
 Here preached Justus Jonas the older and Martin Luther. |
 Until the year 1916 the tower also was the fire-guard-tower of the town... |
 ...and its bell was also used as an alarming-bell in case of fire! |
St. Thomas-Church of Leipzig is known as the place where "God's Composer" Johann Sebastian Bach worked and home of the "Thomas-Choir".
 In the beginning of the 13th century the old market-church... |
 ...was modified to the monistry-church of the St. Thomas-Monistry of the Augustinian monks. |
 The square in front of the church was "changed" at the PC. |
 Above the ribbed vaults you find... |
 ...one of the steepest roofs of Germany (angle 63°, height 43 m) |
 The gothic "Pauliner-Altar" could be saved from the blasted church of St. Pauli in 1963. |
 In front of the church: Statue of J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) |
 "God's composer" is also eternalized in one of the church-windows. |
 The other church-windows... |
 ...are also variegated and spectacular! |
In the evening I walked around on the huge area of Leipzig's
Central Station which is one of the biggest termini in Europe.
A spectecular place for a railway-fanatic!
 An ICE leaves the station. |
 Track 25 is reserved for... |
 ...old trains... |
 ...looked after by a club of railway-fans! |
 Gateway to the huge station-hall |
 Even wasted buildings... |
 ...have a certain... |
 ...romantic beauty! |
 A sensational place is the Youth-Style Waiting-Area |
 The Euro-Night from Berlin to Vienna picks up a tired passenger |