Picture Postcards
While looking for some stuff to sell at ebay, I found some postcards I collected over the years. As I already scanned them for the auction, I thought I could share them with you, bit by bit... I'll post bunches of ten every now and then and hope you don't get tired of the picture spam I am doing here :-) I am much better with pictures than with words in english :-) Nevertheless, I will try to give you some infos which are always nice to know so that you can actually learn something and not only stare at those beautiful pictures.
I'll begin with Northrhine-Westphalia, being the most populous of the federal states with more than 18 million inhabitants of which about 12 million live in the Rhine-Ruhr Area (Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum, Dortmund and cities alike). One of the Rhine cities is Bonn, our former capital with beautiful buildings and one of the biggest German Universities.
Only 20 kilometres up north, there's another really, really beautiful city, Cologne, with almost one million inhabitants which makes it the fourth biggest city in the country. Cologne is quite famous for his Cathedral and partly also for it's University which is the biggest one in the country, with about 44.000 students.
Leaving the Rhine area and travelling to the opposite part of NRW (which is the abbr. of Northrhine-Westphalia) you're in Eastern Westphalia, a region with about 2 million inhabitants, a nice landscape and a LOT of hills. One of the cities of Eastern Westphalia is Herford, which I already posted pictures from. A nice city, not too big, with a bunch of old houses beautiful to look at.
Not too far away from Herford there's the small city (about 10.000 inhabitants) of Rödinghausen which I really don't know anything about :-) It still is located in Eastern Westphalia though.
Going a little bit south you'll discover the quite famous Hermanns-Denkmal which shows Herman, the Cherusci who did something, err, important. It's about a huge fight and interesting enough there's one such statue in the USA, too, in New Ulm (Minnesota).
Not far away from this, there are the so called Externsteine,a distinctive rock formation which was said to be a place for center of religious activity for the Teutonic people long ago. Quite impressive place anyway.
The next card shows some more impressions of that area, including the statue and the Externsteine as well as some of the nice small cities around.
Going west, back in the direction of the Rhine-Ruhr area, there are also several nice places, like the next one, Geseke, which I don't know anything spectacular to tell about. Sorry.
Not that far away there's a region called Sauerland with the "Hochsauerland" as a part of it. The Sauerland is an area with a low mountain range, a lot of trees and even more nature. In winter, it's a well known and much loved winter sports area.
Almost back to Cologne, there's the city of Duisburg which lies in the Ruhr area and has a population of about 500.000 people and the biggest domestic port worldwide.
So ... I hope you liked this small tour through *my* federal state ;-) If you did, I will gladly post some more of these postcards every now and then, as promised. Always a good thing for me to learn something more about the country I live in :-)
I'll begin with Northrhine-Westphalia, being the most populous of the federal states with more than 18 million inhabitants of which about 12 million live in the Rhine-Ruhr Area (Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum, Dortmund and cities alike). One of the Rhine cities is Bonn, our former capital with beautiful buildings and one of the biggest German Universities.
Only 20 kilometres up north, there's another really, really beautiful city, Cologne, with almost one million inhabitants which makes it the fourth biggest city in the country. Cologne is quite famous for his Cathedral and partly also for it's University which is the biggest one in the country, with about 44.000 students.
Leaving the Rhine area and travelling to the opposite part of NRW (which is the abbr. of Northrhine-Westphalia) you're in Eastern Westphalia, a region with about 2 million inhabitants, a nice landscape and a LOT of hills. One of the cities of Eastern Westphalia is Herford, which I already posted pictures from. A nice city, not too big, with a bunch of old houses beautiful to look at.
Not too far away from Herford there's the small city (about 10.000 inhabitants) of Rödinghausen which I really don't know anything about :-) It still is located in Eastern Westphalia though.
Going a little bit south you'll discover the quite famous Hermanns-Denkmal which shows Herman, the Cherusci who did something, err, important. It's about a huge fight and interesting enough there's one such statue in the USA, too, in New Ulm (Minnesota).
Not far away from this, there are the so called Externsteine,a distinctive rock formation which was said to be a place for center of religious activity for the Teutonic people long ago. Quite impressive place anyway.
The next card shows some more impressions of that area, including the statue and the Externsteine as well as some of the nice small cities around.
Going west, back in the direction of the Rhine-Ruhr area, there are also several nice places, like the next one, Geseke, which I don't know anything spectacular to tell about. Sorry.
Not that far away there's a region called Sauerland with the "Hochsauerland" as a part of it. The Sauerland is an area with a low mountain range, a lot of trees and even more nature. In winter, it's a well known and much loved winter sports area.
Almost back to Cologne, there's the city of Duisburg which lies in the Ruhr area and has a population of about 500.000 people and the biggest domestic port worldwide.
So ... I hope you liked this small tour through *my* federal state ;-) If you did, I will gladly post some more of these postcards every now and then, as promised. Always a good thing for me to learn something more about the country I live in :-)