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Renaissance house in Reichsstraße: Oriel
Christmas lights at the palace
Lion statue in Burgplatz
Ägidien quarter
About a 20min drive from Braunschweig, Elm-Lappwald nature park is a lovely day trip for some hiking. The trails are very easily negotiated and so therefore suitable for all ages.
Sprinkled on the edges of the park are various small towns (e.g. Reitisling, Konigslutter) which are perfect for a stop of coffee and cake after some walking through the park. Mmmmmm.
The Duke Anton-Ulrich was a man interested in art and it shows. This is in fact Germany's first museum, where the duke presented art he liked to the public already in 1754. Here you will find real gems by artists such as Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer and Holbein the Younger. There is also quite a collection of Venetian art.
The Abitur is a diploma from a German secondary school which qualifies people for admission to a university.
These two schools, the Kolleg and the Abendgymnasium, are for young adults who have somehow missed out on the Abitur the first time around, and want to have another go at it through the "zweiter Bildungsweg" or "second-chance education".
The building itself looks to me like an example of Nazi architecture from the 1930s, though I haven't found any information on when it was built or by whom.
Update March 24, 2008: Thanks to VT member Kathrin_E, who was born in Braunschweig, for a very informative e-mail in which she writes:
"You're raising a question I'd like to answer: about the Braunschweig Kolleg aka Müllerschule. You're perfectly right: that building is as Nazi as can be. It was opened as "Akademie für Jugendführung" (academy of youth leadership) in 1939 to train HJ and BDM functionaries." (HJ was the "Hitler Youth" for boys and BDM was the girls' version.)
And she sent a link to a fascinating (and very well-designed) website about the topography of the National Socialist tyranny in Braunschweig which I can highly recommend to anyone who reads German and is interested in how a German city is trying to come to grips with this part of its history.
Second and third photos: These reliefs over the entrance doors to the right and left wings of the building both look like typical examples of the sort of 'heroic' artworks that were favored by the Nazis while they were in power.
Fourth and fifth photos: The building from the rear.
Funny eh? In Braunschweig all churches look like in the middle of the building work the people ran out of money and didn't finish the second tower. The cathedral, this church and the church in the following tip all have this feature. You can climb the 93 metre tower to get a view over Braunschweig.
tranquil town close to a very busy city hannover !
Me and my wife enjoyed our stay which was primarily a bussiness trip.
Me ??? of course spent most of my time in the local breweries.....
she was not bored due to the persence of many shopping centers :) and interesting restaurants.
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