tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15861421733296009202024-03-13T06:42:14.655-07:00Christian Travelers GuidesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-78701882698994057782014-05-13T07:07:00.002-07:002015-11-01T11:21:28.709-08:00Magdeburg continued - second blog<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The effect of this
act and the propaganda that accompanied it was that Protestant kings, princes,
independent cities, and even French Catholics rallied to aid Gustavus’s army,
preventing the conquest of northern Europe by the Imperial forces of Austria
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Following the end
of the Thirty Years’ War, Magdeburg was slowly rebuilt. The physicist Otto von
Guericke (1602 – 86), whose experiments proved the existence of a vacuum, was
one of the survivors of the siege and eventually became the mayor.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Almost a
century later, the composer George Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767) lived and
worked in Magdeburg. Over half of the city, including the old town, was
destroyed by Allied bombing on the night of January 16, 1945. Today many fine
Baroque and other buildings are slowly being restored to create what promises
to be a very beautiful city.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Weinkeller
Buttergasse (Wine Cellar Butter Alley) is a unique example of 13th-century
architecture that was discovered in 1947 when workmen were clearing away rubble
created by Allied bombing. Today it is a restaurant that attempts to recreate a
medieval atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Johanniskirche (St.
John’s Church), Jakobstrasse, overlooking the river, is a haunting ruin which
is being restored as a memorial to war and a reminder of <o:p></o:p>its destructive
power. In many ways this church typifies the pathos of Magdeburg’s tragic
history.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Kulturhistorisches
Museum (Museum of History and Culture), Otto von Guericke Strasse 68 – 73, is
an impressive neo-Renaissance type of building designed in 1906 by an Austrian
architect Friedrich Ohmann. Inside the vestibule one finds the original
magnificent Magdeburger Rider (1240) which, like the Bamberg Rider, is one of
the earliest equestrian statues produced in Europe after the fall of the
Western Roman Empire. The ground floor of the museum is devoted to the work of
Otto von Guericke and provides fascinating insights into the rise of modern
science.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-88645826806904800902014-03-04T06:26:00.001-08:002014-03-04T06:26:46.236-08:00Why no recent postings?Visiting a Blog that has not been updated for almost a year can be
discouraging. And this Blog falls into that category. The reason is
quite simple: a series of family illnesses. Now, I hope, things are
getting better and I can return to blogging.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-28283890730210947652013-03-09T16:14:00.005-08:002013-03-09T16:14:57.931-08:00Magdeburg where Luther began high school<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA"></span></b>Magdeburg is not
high on most people’s list of places to visit in Germany. The town was
extensively damaged by wartime bombing and is only slowly recovering from 40
years of Communist neglect. Nevertheless, anyone interested in German history
or the Reformation has to visit this historic city.</div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"></span><span lang="EN-CA">Originally a
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site of a famous Benedictine monastery built by Emperor Otto I, the Great (912
– 73) in 937. It was elevated to an archbishopric in 968 and played an
important role as a center for evangelism in Eastern Europe.</span>
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1524.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">General <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Johann Tserclaes</span> Count Tilly (1559-1632)</span></b></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Almost a century
later, Imperial Catholic armies under General <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Johann Tserclaes</span> Tilly (1559-1632) stormed the city on May 20,
1631, after a six-month siege. At the time of the attack, the defenders were
engaged in discussions about a possible surrender. They were taken by surprise
and quickly overwhelmed after a fierce battle that lasted a few hours. The city
fell, and Tilly retired to the cathedral to say Mass as his troops went on the
rampage. A fire started and within hours destroyed the entire city, except for
the cathedral and one other church. Over 30,000 people perished in the carnage
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propagandists as an example of “Catholic barbarity” and quickly spread
throughout Europe. Thus, the destruction of Magdeburg became the 17th-century
equivalent of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the fate of the Jews
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OujfHhDS0js/UTvQVdH5LkI/AAAAAAAAAY4/Cy1J3nwbXK0/s1600/Gustavus_Adolphus_at_the_Battle_at_Breitenfeld.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OujfHhDS0js/UTvQVdH5LkI/AAAAAAAAAY4/Cy1J3nwbXK0/s320/Gustavus_Adolphus_at_the_Battle_at_Breitenfeld.jpg" width="253" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) </span></b></td></tr>
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ten miles north-west of Eisleben is the small town of Mansfeld which is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>where Martin Luther grew up. His parents moved
from Eisleben to Mansfeld when he was six months old. As a result he received
all of his earl education in the town before moving away to study first in
Magdeburg and later in Eisenach.</span><br />
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was founded in the late tenth century and is mentioned in records dating back
to 973 when it was paird with the town of Leimbach. A dispute settled by
Emperor Otto II between the Archbishop of Magdeburg and the Archbishop of Fulda
gave the area to Magedeburg.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The residence of the Dukes of Mansfeld</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><b>The family home of the Luther family where Martin Luther grew up</b></span></td></tr>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">Close to the house where Luther died is the parish Church of St. Andrew (Marktkirche St. Andreas) where Luther frequently preached when he visited the town. In fact, his last four sermons were preached here shortly before his death. This late Gothic hall church dominates the market square with its twin bell towers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">Originally built in the early middle ages as a Romanesque structure the church was renovated in the fifteenth century following a fire that almost completely destroyed the original building. The church was rebuilt to create a relatively rare triple-naved hall church. Inside this dimly lit building are a number of impressive tombs and an richly carved altar. It also contains busts of both Luther and his close associate Philipp Melancthon (1497-1560).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Statue of Luther with St. Andrew's Church in the background.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA"> Today the church is in dire need of renovation due to years of neglect during the communist era of the German Democratic Republic. Once these renovations, which are due to begin soon, are completed it will be a truly magnificent building rich in history.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">A short walk down the hill from the market square leads to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul which stands a few hundred yards from Luther’s birthplace. It is here that on St. Martin’s Day, 11 November 1483, the baby boy who grew up to become Martin Luther was baptized.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">The church was first mentioned in local records in 1333. It is a three-aisled church which was extensively renovated in 1486. Today, once more, it is undergoing large scale renovations in preparation for the 500<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the Reformation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">Inside the church the visitor can see its impressive fan vault and the actual font which it is believed was used in Luther’s baptism. For years it was thought that the font was lost, but it was unearthed in a local garden in 1726. The inscription on commemorating Luther was added in the 18<sup>th</sup> century.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA"><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LSs-ABzu3tQ/T3eY9eRrjXI/AAAAAAAAATk/6hlYr9OqXFE/s1600/088.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LSs-ABzu3tQ/T3eY9eRrjXI/AAAAAAAAATk/6hlYr9OqXFE/s200/088.JPG" width="133" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul as seen <br />
when approached from Luther's birthplace.</b></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">A winged altar dates from the late 15<sup>th</sup> century while the main altar was added around 1500. It was dedicated to St. Anne the patron saint of miners. Significantly, when caught in a terrible thunder storm at Strotternheim, near Erfurt, the young Luther, who by that time was a university student, called upon St. Anne to save him. Shortly after surviving the storm, Luther entered a monastery to become a monk.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">Before leaving Eisleben it is also worth visiting the Local History, or Heimat, Museum, located at Andreaskircheplatz 7. It has an interesting collection of mining tools from Luther’s time and provides a background to the life of Luther and his family.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-32622291522011431702012-03-03T12:55:00.002-08:002012-03-03T12:56:56.085-08:00Eisleben - where Luther died<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p31-lU0MnqU/T1KDDOp28HI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/59_Vuh9nrTs/s1600/Eisleben.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p31-lU0MnqU/T1KDDOp28HI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/59_Vuh9nrTs/s400/Eisleben.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span lang="EN-CA">Luther was proud of his origins and spoke of himself as a peasant’s son. In reality, his father was a moderately successful businessman who ran a copper smelting business. His father grew up in the Thüringen town of Möhra, but under Thuringian law it was the younger son who inherited the family estate. Therefore, his father could not take up farming and moved to Eisleben which was then a boom town and centre of the local mining industry.</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">To be continued ...</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-42335160037098811202012-02-02T06:33:00.000-08:002012-02-02T06:38:06.165-08:00Eisleben<div class="MsoNormal">Fifty two kilometers, or 32 miles, north of Bad Frankenhausen, along some winding but picturesque roads lies the small town of Eiseleben, or to give it its modern name Eisleben- Lutherstadt. This is the birthplace of the great sixteenth century scholar and founder of Protestantism Martin Luther <span lang="EN-CA">(1483 – 1546)</span>.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Founded due to a mining boom in the foothills of the Harz mountains during the late Middle Ages, Eisleben became a prosperous industrial center with a population of around 4,000 in the late 15th century. </span><span lang="EN-CA">Some time before Martin was born</span><span lang="EN-CA"> his father moved to Eisleben from the family's ancestral home in Möhra, near the more famous town of Eisenach, in Thüringen. Here he became active in smelting ore for the mining industry.</span> Eventually, his father owned several mines in the area. </div><span lang="EN-CA"></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Today, Luther Geburtshaus (the house where Luther was born), at Lutherstraße 16, is a well-constructed museum depicting the life of the Reformer. Most accounts say that Martin Luther was born shortly before midnight on November 10, 1483. But, no one was really sure of the exact time or even date. So he could have been born on the 9<sup>th</sup> or 11<sup>th</sup> of November. Even his mother admitted she didn’t know the exact year. These confusions don’t bother historians, who use the traditional date of November 10, 1483. Knowing the confusion about Luther’s real birthday helps us remember that the world in which he lived was very different from our own.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Shortly after Martin was born he was baptised in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul which is a few minutes walk from his birthplace. Then when he was six months old his family moved to nearby Mansfeld which was the local administrative center and seat of the Dukes of Mansfeld.</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Christians often worry about the exact date of Christ’s birth and are troubled about apparent inconsistencies in biblical chronology. The fact is that in the past people viewed time and dates quite differently to the way we think about them today. The exact chronology of Martin Luther’s life is actually very difficult to reconstruct despite a wealth of documentation. Historians are quite open about the fact that they do not understand many things related to Luther’s life. Therefore, in the absence of alternate evidence, they usually accept traditional accounts.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA">The best modern biography is Martin Brett’s three-volume <i>Martin Luther (</i>Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1993). Brett suggests that 1482 is probably the true year of Luther’s birth. A sidelight which Brett throws on Luther’s thinking is his comment that “because of the uncertainty over the date of his birth, Luther later had little concern for astrology or horoscopes. For him the course of his life was one of miraculous leading” (Brett, 1993:1).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-indent: 0in;"><span lang="EN-CA"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">The strange mixture of socialist realism with underlying Christian themes found in the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park and other monuments in former East Berlin is mirrored truly amazing Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen. Although this site is off the beaten track and rarely visited by tourists other then former East Germans it is well worth visiting.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Planned as a monument to glories of communism, and the triumphs of the German Democratic Republic (DDR), it was built on the site of the last battle of the Peasants War of 1525. The museum took almost twenty years to plan and complete. At its core is a large panoramic painting that depicts world history from the creation to the present.<br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal">This was unique work of art planned and executed by the Leipzig artist Werner Tübke (1929-2004) who combined elements of modern art with the style of Martin Luther’s (1483-1546) friend and supporter Lucas Cranach (1472-1553). Eventually, the museum was opened as tribute to the DDR on 14 September, 1989, barely two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, and a year before the DDR was absorbed by the Federal Republic of former West Germany.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2ZknQiEgtuU/TXKCLyp_y_I/AAAAAAAAAGs/3znr5Ys9rws/s1600/Schlacht3.1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="116" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2ZknQiEgtuU/TXKCLyp_y_I/AAAAAAAAAGs/3znr5Ys9rws/s400/Schlacht3.1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b>This picture depicts the last battle of the Peasant's War in the center is Thomas Münster. Below Münster, standing around a fountain are Martin Luther and a group of his contemporaries. The scene on the left depicts the beginning of modern industry. Below is a close up of Luther.</b></div><div align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><br />
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What is remarkable about Tübke’s art is that these massive paintings follow a Biblical theme. They begin with creation, followed by the Fall, before outlining the course of Western European history. Although the Communist authorities may have wanted to glorify Thomas Münster (1488-1525) and the rebels of the Peasants Revolt, Tübke makes Martin Luther and the Reformation the center piece of his panoramic drama.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Iev4Q39F2IA/TXKGOoiwFXI/AAAAAAAAAG0/kFV9BLp5GTI/s1600/Temptation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="131" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Iev4Q39F2IA/TXKGOoiwFXI/AAAAAAAAAG0/kFV9BLp5GTI/s320/Temptation.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>In the above painting a demon lures medieval people into a trap</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal">Tüpke even takes medieval beliefs about demons seriously while placing great emphasis on the importance of Bible reading and the revolution that the rise of Protestantism initiated. Following theories that are closer to those of the sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920) than Karl Marx (1818-1883) he takes Christianity seriously in a way few modern artists do.<br />
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Related websites about the Panorama Museum and the artist Werner Tüpke are to be found at:</div><div class="MsoNormal">http://www.panorama-museum.de/html/the_panorama_museum.html</div><div class="MsoNormal">http://tuebke-stiftung-leipzig.de/index.php?lang=english</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">More to follow …</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-24989841884784296212011-01-22T10:57:00.000-08:002011-01-22T11:42:16.895-08:00The Soviet War Memorial - Treptower Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">To my great horror, re-reading the section on Berlin in my <i>Christian Travelers Guide to Germany </i>(Grand Rapids. Zondervan, 2001), I discovered that there is no mention of the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park. This is a major oversight because the memorial ought to be one of the top ten sites that anyone visiting Berlin for more than a couple of days visits. Yet, like my own guide, most travel guides to Berlin make no mention of this major site.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">How many Soviet troops actually died is a matter of speculation. At the very least it was over 81,000 and possibly as high as 150,000 with at around 300,000 Soviet casualties many of whom died of their wounds. At the end of the Battle over 450,000 German troops were dead and 479,298 taken prisoner. Many of these were marched off to Siberia never to return.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal">German civilian casualties were well over 100,000. After the surrender of German forces the Soviets went on a rampage of looting and rape that was encouraged by Stalin’s propaganda. In this situation no woman was safe yet these atrocities are conveniently left out of most accounts of the Second World War.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">To their credit the Red Army quickly set up food kitchens and began restoring essential services for the civilian population. A month later, most Berliners were living on less than 1,240 calories a day and over a million were homeless.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">No wonder the memorial is forgotten by many Germans. It is, however, an impressive site. Surprisingly, it also has a number of Christian iconic themes woven into it.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">More to follow …</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-14758905621306631022011-01-17T22:56:00.000-08:002011-01-21T22:13:56.633-08:00Germany’s Forgotten Resistance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Until the film <i>Valkurie </i>(http://valkyrie.unitedartists.com/)<i> </i>came out in 2008 the general impression in North America was that all Germans were Nazis during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Actually, there were strong resistance movements that are largely overlooked by popular writers and historians. At present the best book on these is Peter Hoffmann’s <i>The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 </i>(Montreal and Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyone who spends more than a couple of days in Berlin, during which they see the main sights, ought to visit the Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, or German Resistance Museum, which contains a wealth of information about this little known episode in German history. Surprising to many is the prominent role of both Christians and Communists in resisting Hitler and Nazi tyranny. The exhibit also includes a highly detailed record of the ill-fated July 20, 1944, plot to overthrow Hitler. Here again the presence of Christians among those executed is noticeable.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The place of execution in Plötzensee.</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After getting an overview of the resistance a visit to the Plötzensee Prison Memorial, on the borders of Charlottenburg and Wedding, which can be reached by going to the Gedenkstätte Plötzensee S Bahn station, is where over 2,500 German political prisoners were executed between January and April 1945. Many of these people were Christians who were literally hung on huge meat hooks where they slowly bled or strangled to death.<br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The nearby Church of Mary Queen of the Martyrs, or <i>Kirche Maria Regina Martyrum</i>, was designed by Hans Scäde as a memorial to victims of Nazi oppression. It is entered through a courtyard representing the parade ground in a concentration camp, which symbolizes pain and suffering. The crypt is deliberately gloomy, but the upper church is illuminated by a gentle, natural light, and contains a large modern fresco by Georg Meistermann depicting the transformation of darkness into light, night to day, evil to goodness, through the redemption of Christ. Note the 14th-century Madonna in the church and the modern sculpture “The Woman of the Apocalypse” by F. König in the courtyard. Overall this church makes a deep impact on its visitors reminding them of the great suffering of Jews and Christians during the Nazi era.<br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After visiting these sites a trip to the notorious Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, at the end of the south S-Bahn line, is appropriate. Here you can see the conditions under which political prisoners lived, including the cell of the famed theologian Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), who was held there “at Hitler’s pleasure” for his bold criticisms of Nazism. It is also important to realize that, after 1945, Sachsenhausen became an equally brutal Soviet prison under Communist control. The full story of the Communist use of former concentration camps, where thousands of people died, many of whom were not Nazis at all, has yet to be told.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-59568056032654936022011-01-15T22:50:00.000-08:002011-01-15T22:51:11.008-08:00Jewish Berlin<div class="post-header"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">I posted thought I had published this blog last week, but somehow it went to the Christian Book Reviews Blog - can I blame Microsoft Gremlins? Anyway here it is where it is supposed to be:<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">Although to anyone who has never visited Berlin the idea of a “Jewish Berlin,” may sound absurd, Judaism is actually an important and vibrant tradition that the Nazis failed to eradicate. Perhaps the best place to start a tour of Jewish Berlin is with a visit to the well designed Jewish Museum opened in September 2001 and designed by the American architect Daniel Libeskind (b. 1946). This is a masterpiece of design that captures the tragedy of the Holocaust while preserving a sense of both history and hope. More information can be found on the museum’s excellent website at:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><a href="http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/homepage-EN.php">http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/homepage-EN.php</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">Another place to visit is the Neue Synagogue (New Synagogue), Oranienburger Str. 30, near Museuminsel. It can be found on the web at:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">Completed in 1866, it was designed by the architects Eduard Knoblauch and Friedrich August Stüler (1800 – 1865) and built as an impressive example of Romantic architecture in Moorish style. Badly damaged in World War II, the church was reconstructed beginning in 1988. Attacked during Kristallnacht in 1938, the Synagogue was saved from destruction by the local police chief. A plaque on its outside wall remembers his courageous act. Today the New Synagogue is now the main center for Berlin’s Jewish community.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">One of the fascinating things about Berlin is its well preserved cemeteries. The Jüdischer Friedhof (Jewish cemetery), Grosse Hamburger Strasse, founded in 1672 is the oldest in Berlin. It once contained the grave of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786), the grandfather of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847). Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s conversion to Christianity is commemorated in his great oratorio Paulus (St. Paul).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">The graveyard was desecrated by the Gestapo in 1942. Now all you can see is a memorial plaque, a bronze sculpture by Will Lambert dedicated to the 55,000 Berlin Jews who were deported to camps in the East, and a gravestone commemorating Moses Mendelssohn who was on of the greatest Jewish philosophers of all time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0in;">The Jüdischer Friedhof (Jewish Cemetery), Senefelderplatz, Pankow, fared better than most. It contains the graves of the composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 – 1864), the historian Richard Moritz Meyer (1860-1914), and the painter Max Liebermann (1847-1935).</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-4842665171260657302010-12-29T10:30:00.000-08:002010-12-29T10:30:34.522-08:00The Topography of Terror<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Since I have started talking about the Nazis, in reponse to what Rick Steves, said, I may as well go on with this theme. In fact, Berlin has a number of moving museums dealing with the Nazi era and the German resistance. Outside of Germany few people know anything about the resistance, yet it was very real and involved a lot of Christians. One place to see is the Topographie des Terror (Topography of Terror Museum), Prinz-Albrecht-Gelände. <br />
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This is situated on the site of the former State Secret Police and State Security Center of the Gestapo and SS. It contains graphic details about the fate of Germans who resisted the Nazi dictatorship. Here you will learn that, contrary to popular opinion, most of the opposition to the Nazis came from either Christians or conservatives. The Nazis prided themselves in being able to “turn” Communists and other left-wing opponents. But Christians stood firm against the tyranny and often lost their lives in the process. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-53382381567923518932010-12-22T08:47:00.000-08:002010-12-22T08:48:37.412-08:00Nazism and the distortion of travel and history<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The main problem with writing about visiting Germany, particularly visiting Berlin, is that German history is so often confused with National Socialism. This, of course distorts history, yet it is an understandable distortion given the horrors of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime.<br />
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For example, as part of Rick Steves’ PBS travel program, now on DVD (1977), about the German city of Berlin a young tour guide explains that the German Finance Ministry on Wilhelmstrasse was originally built as Herman Göring’s Air Ministry. She then explains that this oppressive structure was built in the “neo-classical style.” This comment is wrong and actually quite misleading.<br />
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Designed by the architect Ernst Sagebiel, who also built Tempelhof Airport, the style is better described as a form of monumental functionalism as Prof. Ronald Taylor points out in his excellent book Berlin and its Culture (New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1997:272-274). This was one of the main Nazi styles, not neo-classicalism.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
Neo-classicism is associated with the beautiful buildings of Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841) that line Unter den Linden and are found throughout Berlin and the State of Brandenburg. These very human buildings are a far cry from the deliberately domineering style used by the Nazis and ought not to be confused with Nazi delusions of power.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1586142173329600920.post-247242962051762042010-12-16T13:04:00.001-08:002010-12-16T13:04:42.509-08:00<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://christiantravelersguide.blogspot.com/2010/07/berlin-unlikely-destination-for.html">Berlin the unlikely destination for tourists ...</a> </h3> <div class="post-header"> </div> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Berlin</span> is a great place to visit, yet somewhere that few people think about when planning a European vacation. So let's begin by blogging about Berlin with a short history.<br /><br />During the 12th century, the Citadel Spandau was built by the margrave, or count, of Brandenburg as a frontier post against the Slavs. Soon two towns, Cölln and Berlin, grew up on the banks of the Spree. In 1307 the towns merged as Berlin-Cölln and joined the Hanseatic League. In 1415 Count Friedrich Hohenzollern (1372 – 1440) became the Kurfürst (elector) of Brandenburg. Fifty-five years later, Berlin became the official residence of the Hohenzollern dynasty, which was eventually to rule the whole of Germany. The elector Joachim II (1505 – 71) converted to Lutheranism (1539). A generation later Johann Sigismund converted to Calvinism (1613), although most of his subjects remained Lutherans, thus laying a foundation for religious tolerance. During the Thirty Years’ War (1618 – 48), Berlin changed hands numerous times, suffering extensive damage, losing half of its population. In 1640 Friedrich Wilhelm (1620 – 88), known as the Great Elector, became the ruler. With the end of the Thirty Years’ War, the city’s economy slowly revived, and in 1675 Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg defeated the Swedes at the battle of Fehrbellin, thus securing Prussia’s independence. In 1685 the elector invited 6000 French Protestant refugees, known as Huguenots, to settle in Berlin, making almost a fifth of the population French. This wise act stimulated the economy and laid the foundation for Prussia’s future greatness ....<br /><br />More next weekUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0