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4. People waiting on the platform in 2005
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You all know the little green men who live in the traffic lights, telling you when to cross the street? Well, in Erfurt they're no longer alone but have got company. A little green lady has joined them. She seems to be in a hurry, swinging her handbag with lots of energy.
I wonder if she will also come to other cities in Germany. I'm sure the little green men would welcome her.
This is a large house, standing on the Anger, the square in the centre of Erfurt. Its German name is "Haus zur grünen Aue und zum Kardinal". I don't know where this name comes from. About two hundred years ago a famous guest was sleeping there, Russian Tzar Alexander. Today it's a café and an ice-cream parlour.I must admit, when I saw the two statues on the roof, my first thought was one of them was eating ice cream. It was a very hot day in July and everybody was eating ice cream, so it just seemed possible to me. But of course, it's a torch she's holding, not an ice cream cone.
While I'm usually not much of an art buff, this museum is something that I really in Erfurt. Forum Konkrete Kunst is actually only the displayer, the museum itself is former Peterskirche on Petersberg citadel. Looking like a run-down barn from the outside, the similarly run-down interior is used for exhibitions of all kinds. Paintings, sculptures and installations are displayed on dusty ground in front of dilapidated walls. Old wooden columns with thousands of wormholes serve as backgrounds for colourful concrete art.
I'm not sure whether the building is always in use or whether there are exhibitions only part times. In any case, it's well worth checking it out.
Erfurt is called a city of bridges and has 216 bridges cross the Gera river and its little tributaries. One of the city parts is called "Kleinvenedig" what mean Little Venice. The most famous bridge is the Krämerbrücke with its unique medieval atmosphere.
This unusual name comes from the market where woad was traded - Waidanger. I found it simply amazing the effect that this plant had on the prosperity of places like Erfurt and Gorlitz, especially since I'd never even heard of it before I got to Gorlitz. It shows how valuable that the plants that you could make dye from were.
(Woad is a plant that yields a blue dye when cured with urine and dried on rooftops. Erfurt was famous for its woad dye until cheaper indigo from the tropics made woad obsolete. Today, woad dye is again being made by traditional methods in a nearby village.)
This wonderful building (seen to best advantage in pic 2) marks the spot where Anger divides into two separate streets. It sells haberdashery.
The fountain in front, built in 1890, represents industry and gardening and the diligent work of Erfurt tradespeople.
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