Heynstraße (Berlin-Pankow)

Heynstraße (Berlin-Pankow)

Description	Deutsch: Heynstraße in Berlin-Pankow, OT Altpankow. Hier Blick aus der Florastraße südlich in die Heynstraße.
Date	15 October 2011
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Author	Boonekamp
Camera location	52° 33′ 55.01″ N, 13° 24′ 09.57″ E
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Schloss Lembeck

Lembeck caste

Description	English: Lembeck caste near Dorsten, in the northern tip ot the Ruhr, was built in several phases, principally in the 17th century. Nowadays, the castle is used as an hotel and restaurant, surrounded by a park. The castle is mainly in the 17th and 18th century style, and a part of it can be visited.
Date	11 July 2011
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Author	Rainer Lippert, bearbeitet durch Alchemist-hp
Camera location	51° 44′ 32.18″ N, 6° 59′ 55.06″ E
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Ponttor, Aachen

Ponttor, Aachen

Description	Deutsch: Ponttor, Aachen Nederlands: Ponttor, Aken Korean: 아헨 폰트 문
Date	19 May 2011
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Author	Romaine
Camera location	50° 46′ 54.39″ N, 6° 04′ 43.12″ E
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Historic Water Tower

Historic Water Tower

Description	English: Historic Water Tower Location: Germany Essen district Bedingrade Deutsch: Historischer Wasserturm Standort: Deutschland Stadtteil Essen Bedingrade 한국어: 히스토릭 워터 타워
Date	24.04.2011
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Author	Hoecky
Camera location	.
Permission	Public Domain
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Schloss Struppen

Schloss Struppen

Description	Deutsch: Schloss Struppen / Rittergut Neustruppen
Date	3 April 2014
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Author	Thomas8122
Camera location	50° 56′ 07.65″ N, 13° 59′ 57.83″ E
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Patience, German proverb

Patience devours the devil.

- German proverb

Advice, German proverb

Less advice and more hands.

- German proverb

Honesty, German Proverb

Honesty lasts longest.

- German Proverb

Baroque Schönhausen Palace in Berlin

Baroque Schönhausen Palace in Berlin

Description	Deutsch: Das Schloss Schönhausen im Bezirk Pankow, Berlin, Deutschland English: The Schönhausen Palace in Pankow borough, Berlin, Germany Español: Castillo de Schönhausen, en estilo barroco, situado en Niederschönhausen, distrito de Pankow, cerca de Berlín, Alemania. Français : Le château de Schönhausen, de style baroque, situé dans le quartier de Niederschönhausen à Pankow, près de Berlin, en Allemagne.
Date	14 June 2014
Source	Own work
Author	A.Savin (userpage)
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Beauty, German Proverb

Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

- German Proverb

Rose, German Proverb

No rose without a thorn.

- German Proverb

Japan Says Chinese Premier Li Ignores History in Potsdam Remarks

Japan Says Chinese Premier Li Ignores History in Potsdam Remarks
By Bloomberg News - May 27, 2013

A top Japanese official said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang “ignored history” by interpreting a 1945 allied agreement to mean Japan should hand over disputed islands to China.

In a speech yesterday in Potsdam, Germany, site of the conference where terms of surrender were dictated to Japan, Li said that agreement reaffirmed Japan should return all territory stolen from China, including “Taiwan and related islands.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-26/china-s-li-calls-to-uphold-postwar-peace-amid-japan-island-spat.html

Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Skyline of Frankfurt am Main, Clockwise from top of left to right: Facade of the Römer and Frankfurt Cathedral, Statue of Charlemagne in Frankfurt Historical Museum, View of Frankfurt skyline and Main River

Frankfurt am Main (Frankfurt on the Main), commonly known as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2012 population of 704,449.[2] The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010.[3] The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5,600,000[4] and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region. Since the expansion of the European Union in 2007, the geographic midpoint of the European Union is about 40 kilometres east of Frankfurt am Main.

Frankfurt is the financial and transport centre of Germany and the largest financial centre in continental Europe. It is the seat of the European Central Bank, the German Federal Bank, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and the Frankfurt Trade Fair, as well as several large commercial banks, e.g. Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and DZ Bank. Frankfurt Airport is one of the world's busiest international airports, Frankfurt Central Station is one of the largest terminal stations in Europe, the Frankfurter Kreuz is one of the most heavily used Autobahn interchanges in Europe. Additionally, Frankfurt's DE-CIX is the world's largest internet traffic exchange point.

Frankfurt is an international centre for finance, commerce, culture, transport, education, and tourism. It is therefore considered a global city (alpha world city) as listed by the Loughborough University group's 2010 inventory. Among global cities it was ranked 10th by the Global Power City Index 2011 and 11th by the Global City Competitiveness Index 2012. Among financial centers it was ranked 7th by the International Financial Centers Development Index 2012 and 10th by the Global Financial Centres Index 2013.

In 2011, the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Frankfurt as seventh in its annual "Quality of Living" survey of cities around the world.[5] According to The Economist cost of living survey, Frankfurt is Germany’s most expensive city, and the 10th most expensive in the world.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt

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Notes

[1]^ "Die Bevölkerung der hessischen Gemeinden". Hessisches Statistisches Landesamt (in German). December 2011.
[2]^ Amt für Statistik, Frankfurt am Main, Einwohnerstand und Einwohnerbewegung in Frankfurt am Main – Drittes Quartal 2012
[3]^ (English) "World Urban Areas" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-09-20.
[4]^ Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Competitive Cities in the Global Economy, OECD Territorial Reviews, (OECD Publishing, 2006), Table 1.1
[5]^ "Mercer's Survey 2011". Mercer. 29 November 2011.
[6]^ "World's most expensive place to live is...". The Economist.

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Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt
http://www.frankfurt.de/

Bahnhofsviertel (Frankfurt am Main)

Bahnhofsviertel (Frankfurt am Main)

The Bahnhofsviertel (literally: train station quarter) is a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It is part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt I.

The Bahnhofsviertel was developed between 1891 and 1915. Along with the Westend, the Nordend and the Ostend, it is part of Frankfurt's dense inner city districts.

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Geography

The Bahnhofsviertel is scarcely half a square kilometre larger than the Altstadt, making it the second smallest district of the city. The longest border line is just short of a kilometre long. Almost trapeze shaped, this districit lies between the Alleenring to the west, Mainzer Landstraße in the north and the Anlagenring to the east. The Main river forms a natural border in the south. Adjacent districts to the west are the Gutleutviertel and the Gallus around Frankfurt Central Station, the Westend in the north and the Innenstadt in the east. To the south, on the opposite side of the Main, lies Sachsenhausen.

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Infrastructure

The Bahnhofsviertel is well connected to the public transport system because of its central location. The Hauptbahnhof, which borders the borough, offers connection to regional and long distance trains. Two tram lines (11 and 12) cross the Bahnhofsviertel on Münchner Straße. The Willy-Brandt-Platz U-Bahn station and Taunusanlage S-Bahn station are also easily reachable. The well-known meaning of Kaiserstraße has been lost among the street traffic, travel from the Alleenring to the Hauptbahnhof is no longer possible through the Kaisersack. Instead the main traffic vein today is Gutleutstraße, which flows into the theatre tunnel and offers a connection to the old part of town. The roads arrange in a chessboard-like fashion and make orientation easy. The wide east-west streets are constructed like boulevards and communicate the charm of a big city. Numerous nineteenth century buildings have survived through World War II and became chaste residential houses in the 1950s and 1960s, whilst several supplemented skyscrapers. Best known are the Silvertower and the Gallileo at Jürgen-Ponto-Platz (named after the murdered president of Dresdner Bank), the Skyper and the Gewerkschaftshaus in Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße. The latter was built in 1931, (the architect was Max Taut), and was then the biggest skyscraper in the city. The best known of many hotels in the Bahnhofsviertel, the InterContinental, is also in Wilhelm-Leuschner-Straße.

There are no large parks but in the south of the district lies the Main Riverbank, one of the most popular green areas in Frankfurt. In 1860 a silted branch of the Main, the Kleine Main, was filled up and the offshore island Mainlust was connected to the main bank. On this land Sebastian Rinz, the city gardener, laid out a green area with Mediterranean vegetation which was soon named Nizza in common speech. The Frankfurt families Guaita and Loeen had already possessed large landscaped gardens in the climatically favoured area of the river west of the old city walls since the seventeenth century.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahnhofsviertel_(Frankfurt_am_Main)

Gallileo, Frankfurt

Gallileo, Frankfurt

Description	Deutsch: Das 2003 fertiggestellte Gallileo (benannt nach der angrenzenden Gallusanlage) war gemeinsam mit dem sog. "Silberturm" die Zentrale der Dresdner Bank. Seit der Übernahme der Dresdner Bank 2010 wird das Gallileo durch die Commerzbank genutzt.
Date	7 May 2011
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Author	Tilman AB
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Statue of Venus (Sanssouci)

Statue of Venus (Sanssouci)

Description	Potsdam, Sanssouci, Plastik Venus von Pigalle Potsdam.- Sanssouci, Venus von Pigalle an der Großen Fontaine
Date	12 December 2008
Photographer	Max Baur (1898–1988)
Institution	German Federal Archives Nachlass Max Baur (Bild 170)
Accession number	Bild 170-710
Source	This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive (Deutsches Bundesarchiv) as part of a cooperation project. The German Federal Archive guarantees an authentic representation only using the originals (negative and/or positive), resp. the digitalization of the originals as provided by the Digital Image Archive.
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Germany

Germany

Germany (i/ˈdʒɜrməni/; German: Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland, pronounced [ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant]), is a federal parliamentary republic in west-central Europe. The country consists of 16 states, and its capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 square kilometres (137,847 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal climate. With 81.8 million inhabitants, it is the most populous member state in the European Union. Germany is one of the major political and economic powers of the European continent and a historic leader in many theoretical and technical fields.

A region named Germania, inhabited by several Germanic peoples, was documented before AD 100. During the Migration Period, the Germanic tribes expanded southward and established successor kingdoms throughout much of Europe. Beginning in the 10th century, German territories formed a central part of the Holy Roman Empire. During the 16th century, northern German regions became the centre of the Protestant Reformation while southern and western parts remained dominated by Roman Catholic denominations, with the two factions clashing in the Thirty Years' War, marking the beginning of the Catholic–Protestant divide that has characterized German society ever since. Occupied during the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of Pan-Germanism inside the German Confederation resulted in the unification of most of the German states in 1871 into the German Empire, which was Prussian dominated.

After the German Revolution of 1918–1919 and the subsequent military surrender in World War I, the Empire was replaced by the parliamentary Weimar Republic in 1918, and some of its territory partitioned in the Treaty of Versailles. Despite its lead in many scientific and artistic fields at this time, amidst the Great Depression, the Third Reich was proclaimed in 1933. The latter period was marked by fascism and World War II. After 1945, Germany was divided by allied occupation, and evolved into two states, East Germany and West Germany. In 1990 the country was reunified.

Germany was a founding member of the European Community in 1957, which became the EU in 1993. It is part of the Schengen Area and since 1999 a member of the euro area. Germany is a great power and member of the United Nations, NATO, the G8, the G20, the OECD and the Council of Europe, and took a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2011–2012 term.

Germany has the world's fourth largest economy by nominal GDP and the fifth largest by purchasing power parity. Germany is the second largest exporter and third largest importer of goods. The country has developed a very high standard of living and features a comprehensive system of social security; the country has the world's oldest universal health care system. Germany has been the home of many influential philosophers, music composers, scientists and inventors, and is known for its cultural and political history.

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German Proverbs

Flower

¶ No rose without a thorn.

¶ Roses and maidens soon lose their bloom.

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