On the Thuringia tourist trail - Inverness Courier
Tuesday, August 20, 2019It can be visited too.Meiningen also claims to be the place where the Thuringian dumpling originated. These dumplings, in endless varieties, can be found on the menu everywhere.Jena This is “science city”. It is home to Germany’s optics industry, has the Abbe centre for Photonics, the Schiller University (dating from 1558), and the Karl Zeiss planetarium, the world’s oldest.The first planetarium, in science city Jena.It also boasts the world’s second-oldest botanical garden. With such a concentration of skilled industry, Jena suffered pretty badly in World War II, but has rebuilt. Today it is a bustling city, with m...https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/lifestyle/culture-castles-and-kilometres-of-trails-in-german-state-181187/
Bureau County 4-H Livestock Special Awards announced - Bureau County Republican
Tuesday, August 20, 2019Berlin 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Heifer, Jessica Carlson of Dover-Berlin 4-H Club.
• Reserve Champion Heifer, Aubrey Vogel of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
Horse and Pony
• Grand Champion Mare, JenaLee Ohda of Walnut Winners 4-H Club.
• Reserve Grand Champion Mare, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Gelding, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Reserve Grand Champion Gelding, Adelynn Thomas of LaSalle.
• Junior High Point Performance, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Intermediate High Point Performance, JenaLee Ohda of Walnut Winners 4-H Club.
• Senior High Point Performance, Dusty Kolb of Zearing 4-H Club.
• Junior High Point Games, Quincy Hochstatter of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Intermediate High Point Games, Natasha Faber of Dover-Berlin 4-H Club.
• Senior High Point Games, Dusty Kolb of Zearing 4-H Club.
• Junior Showmanship, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Intermediate Showmanship, JenaLee Ohda of Walnut Winners 4-H Club.
• Senior Horsemanship, JenaLee Ohda of Walnut Winners 4-H Club.
• Intermediate Horsemanship, Sierra Spohn of Ohio Windmillers 4-H Club.
• Junior Horsemanship, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
Goats
• Champion Female Goat, Morgan Mahnesmith of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Champion Dairy Goat, Cody Galassi of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
Sheep
• Grand Champion Market Lamb, Samuel Wright of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Ram, Emily Wright of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Ewe, Cody Galassi of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Intermediate Sheep Showmanship, Emily Wright of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Junior Sheep Showmanship, Cody Galassi of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
Swine
• Grand Champion Barrow, Elizabeth Orwig of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Reserve Grand Champion Barrow, Brady Peach of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Champion Purebred Gilt, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Reserve Champion Purebred Gilt, Zack Wiggim of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Champion Commercial Gilt, Elizabeth Orwig of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Reserve Champion Commercial Gilt, Carly Wiggim of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Pen of Market Swine, Elizabeth Orwig of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Reserve Grand Champion Pen, Reid Orwig of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Senior Swine Showmanship, Elizabeth Orwig of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Intermediate Swine Showmanship, Carly Wiggim of Manlius Boys and Girls 4-H Club.
• Junior Swine Showmanship, Payton Frueh of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
Poultry
• Grand Champion Standard, Hannah Williams of Western Winning Wonders 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Waterfowl, Brady Peach of Bureau County Open Door 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Pigeon, Hannah Williams of Western Winning Wonders 4-H Club.
• Grand Champion Bantam, Hannah Williams of Western Winning Wonders 4-H Club.
Rabbits
• Best of Show,...http://www.bcrnews.com/2019/08/02/bureau-county-4-h-livestock-special-awards-announced/a37x0pn/
Hildegarde M. 'Gardie' Seeger
Wednesday, October 17, 2018Gallup, New Mexico, Stanley (Debra) Seeger of Merrill and Stuart (Janet) Seeger of Parkville, Missouri; 14 grandchildren, Greg (Denise) Brandenburg, Lisa (Paul) Piikkila, Jodi (John) Juhlke, Scott (Jena) Brandenburg, Jonathon Ritter, Ross Seeger, Kevin Seeger, Kelsey Seeger, Tim Seeger, Brian (Kaitlyn) Seeger, Jill (Joel) Schmidt, Luke (Kimberley) Maluegge, Ben (Amanda) Seeger and Nicholas Seeger; 19 great-grandchildren; 6 great-great-grandchildren; brother, Raymond (Geri) Hass of Florida; and sister-in-law, Lorene Hass of Merrill. Hildegard was preceded in death by her husband, Frederick Seeger; parents, Henry and Anna Hass; great-granddaughter, Madison Lyn Seeger; sister, Irene McDonald; and brothers, Harold, Art, Arnie, Norman and Edward Hass.
The funeral service for Hildegarde will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, October 11, 2018 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Merrill. Rev. Scott Gustafson will officiate. Burial will take place at St. Pauls Cemetery, Town of Scott. Visitation will begin at 9:00 A.M. Thursday at the church. Taylor-Stine Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Merrill, is assisting the family with arrangements.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggest memorials be directed to Trinity Lutheran Church, Merrill.
Online condolences may be made at www.taylorstinefuneralhome.com
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A brief history of German neo-Nazi group NSU
Thursday, August 2, 2018Here is a brief history of the group:
Early 1990s Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Boehnhardt and Beate Zschaepe befriend each other in the eastern town of Jena at a time when far-right ideas were on the rise in the formerly communist part of recently reunited Germany.
January 1998 The trio goes on the run from police to avoid arrest over a bomb-making workshop in Jena. By late 1998, they decide to carry out ideologically motivate killings to intimidate ethnic minorities and destabilize the German state.
September 2000 Mundlos and Boehnhardt kill Enver Simsek, a flower seller of Turkish origin, in the southern city of Nuremberg. He is the first of nine men with migrant backgrounds killed by the NSU.
January 2001 A bomb disguised as a Christmas present explodes in an Iranian family's grocery store in the western city of Cologne, seriously injuring the owners' daughter.
June 2001 Abdurrahim Ozudogru, a Turkish tailor, is shot dead in his store in Nuremberg. Days later, Turkish grocer Suleyman Taskopru is killed in Hamburg.
August 2001 Turkish grocer Habil Kilic is killed in Munich.
February 2004 Mehmet Turgut, who runs a Turkish kebab restaurant in the northern city of Rostock, is shot dead.
June 2004 23 people are injured, some seriously, when a bomb packed with 800 nails explodes on a busy shopping street in Cologne frequented by migrants.
June 2005 Turkish restaurant owner Ismail ...http://www.tampabay.com/a-brief-history-of-german-neo-nazi-group-nsu-ap_world3d1631f7210641a8829f88373565d674
The perfect destination foHere is why Germany is the perfect destination for your next holidayr your holiday! Discover nature in Germany - Emirates Woman
Sunday, January 26, 2020Alps are characterised by green trees and extensive forests.Rhön UNESCO Biosphere Reserve: at the corner of the three German states, Bavaria, Hesse and ThuringiaThe Rhôn hills are located in the heart of Germany and offer a wide range of beautiful views! And if you are a fan of athletic activities, you can try gliding, water sports, and indulge in a spot of star gazing.Jasmund National Park Mecklenburg-Western Pomeraniait takes you right along the cliffs and features enough natural treasures for several holidays. White chalk cliffs, lush beech forests and the shimmering blue of the sea. You’ll catch sight of a rare white-tailed eagle circling in the skies, while far below a thousand different species of beetle scuttle through the undergrowth in this landscape of contrasts.Black Forest National Park, Baden-Württemberg, South GermanyPerfect for cleansing your lungs. The remarkable feature of this national park is that some areas have been able to develop for more than 100 years without human intervention. This means that all the animals and plants that are found here live in authentic, natural surroundings.You can use Deutsche Bahn trains all over Germany, where it uses 100% green energy. In addition, you can take the InterCity Express for a unique experience, as it is a high-speed train that connects all major cities in Germany with speeds of up to 300 km / hour, and this is one of the fastest ways to reach between Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne!Check out their Instagram: GermanyTourismAr, and Facebook: Germany Tourism Arabia– For more about Dubai’s lifestyle, news and fashion scene straight to your newsfeed, follow us on Facebook Media: Supplied...https://emirateswoman.com/germany/
In Berlin and Erfurt, two murals belong to the people - People's World
Sunday, January 26, 2020The other mural symbolizes basically the same ideals but in a very different way. Erfurt, 200 miles to the south, the capital of Thuringia, is an ancient city, first mentioned in 742 AD. It has a handsome “old town”, with 25 churches and a grand cathedral crowning a unique, wonderful stairway. But post-war GDR needed millions of modern homes and it needed them quickly. Using its newly-developed system of prefabricated panels, it built whole neighborhoods of comfortable, extremely low-priced apartments, well connected by cheap city transportation, provided with new schools, child care and sport facilities, clinics and cultural centers, soon improved with trees, shrubbery, playgrounds, but with one weakness – their sameness.
A number of sculptors and painters worked to overcome this; a leading light among them was Josep Renau (1907-1982).
Born in Valencia, where he studied at the art academy, Renau became an active leftist, joined the Communist Party and, when the fascist putsch began in 1936, he joined in making the famous posters supporting the Republic. Put in charge of the Spanish Pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, he was able to encourage and then exhibit Pablo Picasso’s passionate, startling “Guernica” mural.
After the defeat of the republic Renau escaped to Mexico, where he worked with the great Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Invited to the GDR in 1958, he soon began work on his remarkable murals, almost as colorful as those of Moia but with bold, modern, partially abstracted forms which did not always conform to some administrators’ clichéd ideas of the officially-approved “socialist realism”. In spite of such attitudes, he became most noticeably successful with a series of murals, some vertical, some horizontal, always big and eye-catching, for a new city, Halle-Neustadt. It is still a goal of art-lovers’ pilgrimages.
Old Erfurt also wanted such a bright attraction for its new high-rise housing areas, and commissioned a mural by Renau for a big new cultural center. Called “The Relationship of Humans to Nature and Technology,” it shows two large hands, one with an apple, the other a many-sided geometric object, surrounded by symbols and urging a symbiosis of both elements in building a better world. It was composed of 70,000 colored glass mosaic tiles, each about one inch square, and together full 7 meters tall and 30 meters in length ((23 ft. x 98 ft.) – truly an impressive sight! Sadly, Renau did not live to see its completion.
Monimbó mosaic in Berlin, Gabriele Senft
Many GDR works were discarded or destroyed after 1990, but the Erfurt mosaic (and the Halle-Neustadt murals) survived. But in 2012 the cultural center – like nearly all of its kind – received a death sentence. It was replaced by a shopping center, which saved the city costs and brought money into the pockets of persuasive new owners. As for the Renau work, due for demolition, it was again a small group of devotees who managed to rescue it – but only after it was sawed into many sections, put away in a storage building, and almost forgotten.
But those who loved it did not forget it. It took them years...https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/in-berlin-and-erfurt-two-murals-belong-to-the-people/
Germany's second-highest traffic bridge opens - DW (English)
Sunday, January 26, 2020German Taxpayers Federation keeps tabs on areas where they believe taxpayer money was wasted and sums up the most egregious cases in its annual "black book." The 2019 report called out Thuringia's Environment Ministry for a flower-shaped mini-solar panel sculpture that was installed in the shade. The ministry defended the flower, saying it was never supposed to power the building.
Germany's biggest wastes of taxpayer money in 2019 A bridge for mice After realizing that a new bypass road near the southern German city of Passau cuts through the natural habitat of the dormouse, officials got creative and built a bridge for the mice to safely travel over the road. The German Taxpayer's Federation (BdSt) had a bone to pick with the resulting structure ...
Germany's biggest wastes of taxpayer money in 2019 Perilous path to safety (instructions not included) ... The bridge requires mice to climb wooden rungs up 7 meters high (23 feet) and run down a passage 20 meters long in order to travel safely over the road. The project ended up costing taxpayers €93,000; the BdSt said it wasn't clear if any dormice actually use the bridge. The city of Passau said colonies of mice were found near the road. Explaining the bridge's purpose to them may prove tricky.
Germany's biggest wastes of taxpayer money in 2019 Stolen but golden This golden bird's nest was the prized possession of an elementary school in Berlin — until it was stolen. The sculpture, comprised of 74 branches made out of pure gold, was placed in a display case with supposedly shatter-proof glass. According to the BdSt, the artwork cost €92,500. Thieves tried to break in several times and managed to make off with the nest on their third attempt.
Germany's biggest wast...https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-second-highest-traffic-bridge-opens/a-51355455
Discovering Thuringia, Home to Germany’s Enchanting Christmas Markets - Vogue
Tuesday, August 20, 2019First-time travelers to Germany may flock to the livelier hubs that are Berlin, Frankfurt, or Munich—but hidden from the crowds in the middle of the country is Thuringia, one of Germany’s smaller states. What it lacks in size, it makes up for in a high number of historical landmarks and figures: it is where the composer Johann Sebastian Bach was born, where poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller lived and developed their craft, and where the Bauhaus art and design movement was first ignited. It is also home to over 400 different castles and palaces, all of which are anchored by the scenic Thuringian Forest that holds a variety of different hiking trails.Visit Thuringia in December, though, and it really comes alive: it happens to hold some of the best Christmas markets in the world. (We’re talking next-level, capital-F festive, seriously postcard-worthy Christmas markets.) Every holiday season, communities across the state set up enchanting booths filled with plenty of local crafts, food, and wine. They are usually erected in the cities’ main marktplatz, though some of them spread their markets out across town, or even host t...https://www.vogue.com/article/touring-germanys-christmas-markets