Berlyn uitstappie
Sondag oggend is ons kerk toe. Hier in Spandau, die St. Nikolai Kirche waar ek deesdae (sporadies) kerk toe gaan. Sprache auf Deutsch... en toe is dit nog nagmaal ook.
Surrounded by a street circle, the column is also accessible to pedestrians through four tunnels, built in 1941 to plans by Albert Speer who likewise increased the width of the road between it and the Brandenburg Gate and designed the new Germania which was scheduled for construction after the victory obtained in the war. Via a steep spiral staircase of 285 steps, the physically fit may, for a fee, climb almost to the top of the column, to just under the statue and take in the spectacular views over the Tiergarten including the Soviet War Memorial, 1946, in line with the Nazi proposed north-south triumphal way by Speer and Hitler.
The column itself consists of four solid blocks of sandstone, three of which are decorated by cannon barrels captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars. The fourth ring is decorated with golden garlands and was added in 1938–39 as the whole monument has been relocated. The fourth ring in the column has a meaning, similarly to the original 3 rings. The fourth ring was added by Hitler after the Battle of France ended. The entire column, including the sculpture, is 66.89 meters tall.
The relief decoration was removed at the request of the French forces in 1945, probably to prevent Germans from being reminded of former victories, especially the defeat of the French in 1871. It was restored for the 750th anniversary of Berlin in 1987 by the French president at that time, François Mitterrand. However, several sections remain in France.
Ook naby Siegie het ons gou by Schloss Bellevue verby gegaan - die die paleis waar die Deutse president woon
In 1843, King Frederick William IV of Prussia acquired Bellevue, which in 1865 became the residence of his niece Princess Alexandrine after her marriage with William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. It served the royal and imperial princes of the Hohenzollern dynasty until the German Revolution of 1918–19.
A property of the Free State of Prussia from 1928, the palace in the mid-1930s was used as a museum of ethnography before being renovated as a guest house for the Nazi government in 1938. And it was there that Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov stayed, with his retinue, during his visit to Berlin in November 1940. During World War II, it was severely damaged bystrategic bombing and in the 1945 Battle of Berlin. The palace was substantially refurbished in the 1950s. Inaugurated by President Theodor Heuss in 1959, it served as the secondary residence of the West German president, a pied à terre in West Berlin to supplement his primary residence at the Hammerschmidt Villa in Bonn. The palace was refurbished again in 1986-87, and after German reunification President Richard von Weizsäcker moved his primary residence to it in 1994. A modern annex to the southern wing was built in 1998 to house the offices of the affiliated Bundespräsidialamt ("Office of the Federal President"), a federal agency.Roman Herzog, president from 1994-1999, remains the only officeholder who actually lived at Bellevue during his incumbency. The palace was reconstructed again in 2004 and 2005 to remedy defects in earlier renovations; President Horst Köhler used nearby Charlottenburg Palace for representative purposes during this period. Bellevue became the president's primary official seat again in January, 2006, but since this reconstruction has not included living quarters. The Federal President therefore lives in a government-owned villa in the suburban Dahlem district of southwestern Berlin.
uiteindelik by die hek - Brandenburger Tor - een van my gunsteling plekke as die winter oppad uit is en die sonnetjie so effe begin skyn veral, of in die somer voordat die stad wakkerword en net die oggendmense daar verby kom oppad werk toe met hulle fietse. Dan sit ek graag hier met 'n koffetjie en 'n werksartikel om te lees of experimente om te beplan :-)(Wiki) The Brandenburg Gate (German: Brandenburger Tor) is a former city gate, rebuilt in the late 18th century as a neoclassical triumphal arch, and now one of the most well-known landmarks of Germany.
It is located in the western part of the city centre of Berlin, at the junction of Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building. The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which formerly led directly to the city palace of the Prussian monarchs.
It was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia as a sign of peace and built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791. Having suffered considerable damage in World War II, the Brandenburg Gate was fully restored from 2000 to 2002 by the Stiftung Denkmalschutz Berlin (Berlin Monument Conservation Foundation).[1]
During the post-war Partition of Germany, the gate was isolated and inaccessible immediately next to the Berlin Wall, and the area around the gate featured most prominently in the media coverage of the opening of the wall in 1989.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often site for major historical events and is today considered as a symbol for the tumultuous European and German history, but also of European unity and peace.
Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often site for major historical events and is today considered as a symbol for the tumultuous European and German history, but also of European unity and peace.
(wiki) Vehicles and pedestrians could travel freely through the gate, located in East Berlin, until the Berlin Wall was built, 13 August 1961. Then one of all together eight Berlin Wall crossings was opened on the eastern side of the gate, usually not open for East Berliners and East Germans, who from then on needed a hard-to-obtain exit visa. On 14 August West Berliners gathered on the western side of the gate to demonstrate against the Berlin Wall, among them West Berlin's governing Mayor Willy Brandt, who had spontaneously returned from a federal election campaigning tour in West Germany earlier on the same day.
Under the pretext that Western demonstrations required it, the East closed the checkpoint at the Brandenburg Gate the same day, 'until further notice', a situation that was to last until 22 December 1989. The Wall was erected as an arc just west of the gate, cutting off access from West Berlin. On the eastern side, the "baby Wall", drawn across the eastern end of Pariser Platzrendered it off limits to East Berliners as well.
When the Revolutions of 1989 occurred and the Wall fell, the gate symbolized freedom and the desire to unify the city of Berlin. Thousands of people gathered at the Wall to celebrate its fall on 9 November 1989. On 22 December 1989, the Brandenburg Gate crossing was reopened when Helmut Kohl, the West German chancellor, walked through to be greeted by Hans Modrow, the East German prime minister. Demolition of the rest of the Wall around the area took place the following year.
Brandenburg Gate became the main venue for the 20th anniversary celebrations of the fall of the Berlin Wall or "Festival of Freedom" on the evening of 9 November 2009. The high point of the celebrations was when over 1000 colorfully designed foam domino tiles, each over 2.5 meters tall, were lined up along the route of the former wall through the city centre. The domino "wall" was then toppled in stages converging here.[5]
Nou was dit egter Sondag en dan voel dit mos of die hele bevolking hierop toesak... so ons het maar net 'n kiekie geneem en onsself uit die voete gemaak - oppad na die Sjoe Monument (Holocaust Memorial) wat net om die hoek is daarvandaan. 2711 concrete blokke - almal verskillende grote en vorm... Die monument is bokant 'n museum/inligtingsentrum, en ons is toe daar in om te gaan kyk en lees.
In die voorportaal van die museum staan teen die muur die aanhaling:
"it happened and therefore it can happen again"
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe[1] (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m2 (4.7-acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.8 m (8 in to 15 ft 9 in). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. However, observers have noted the memorial's resemblance to a cemetery.[2][3][4] An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of theBrandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.
Hierna is ons via Charite (hospitaal kompleks wat dateer uit 1710) waar ons instituut se gebou staan en dus waar ek werk :-) 
Complying with an order of King Frederick I of Prussia from November 14, 1709, it was initially established in 1710 north of the Berlin city walls in anticipation of an outbreak of bubonic plague that already had depopulated East Prussia. After the plague spared the city it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor. On January 9, 1727 Frederick William I of Prussia gave it the name Charité, meaning "charity".[2] The construction of an anatomical theatrein 1713 marks the beginning of the medical school, then supervised by the collegium medico-chirurgicum of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.[3] 1795 saw the establishment of the Pépinière school for the education of military surgeons.
After the University of Berlin (today Humboldt University) had been founded in 1810, the dean of the medical college Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland in 1828 integrated the Charité as a teaching hospital. Rudolf Virchow, once student at thePépinière, worked with anatomist Robert Froriep as prosector here and in 1856 became director of the newly created institute of pathology, where he developed his cell theory
vanaf MPIIB is ons toe Hauptbahnhof toe, en Pa het van die geleentheid gebruik gemaak om homself beide in Oos- en Wes-Berlyn te bevind (MPIIB en Charite is net Oos van die voormalige Muur gebou)
van Hauptbahnhof af is ons sommer te voet verby die Bundestag, en toe het die reent begin... Karoo boere kom mos Europa toe sonder 'n reenbaadjie...
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