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 Baechle at the Rathausplatz
square by german_eagle
There is a saying in Freiburg that these foreign singles who step in the "Baechle" will marry a local soon ... so be careful (or not :-))! Leave a Comment
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This looks at first glance like a perfectly normal yellow road sign, such as you might find on any regional highway in Germany. But wait! These signs don't normally point to places over a thousand kilometers away. And who ever heard of a place called Gurs, anyhow?
Gurs is a city in the southwest corner of France. It was the site of a concentration camp that was used by the Nazi collaborators of the Vichy government to intern Jews and other people considered undesirable by the Nazis.
Within a few hours on October 22, 1940, the Nazis rounded up 6504 Jewish men, women and children from the regions of Baden and the Pfalz, including some 300 Jewish citizens of Freiburg, and deported them to Gurs. Many died there of hunger or illness, and in 1942 the rest were sent east to Auschwitz or Maidanek, where they were murdered.
On the 60th anniversary of the deportation, in October 2000, Freiburg citizens erected a plaque explaining what had happened. The text on the plaque concludes: "Too many people looked away back then, too few resisted. This must not and will not happen again."
Update: There is now a similar yellow sign in front of the main railroad station in Mannheim, but with a different number: "Gurs 1170 km".
Second photo: Square of the Old Synagogue. This is where the main Freiburg Synagogue used to be, until it was destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. Leave a Comment
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For all those who are interested in culture, museums, art collections the regional museums pass (Oberrheinischer Museumspass) is a great deal.
The Museums Pass covers more than 150 museums in the region, including Germany, France and Switzerland and such famous museums like the Art Museum in Basel and the Unterlinden museum in Colmar.
In Freiburg it covers e.g. the Augustinermuseum.
I purchased the short-time version, valid four days within one month. It costs 25 Euro.
www.museumspass.com (in German and French only)
E-mail: info@museumspass.com
Tel. CH: 061-205 00 40
Tel. D: 0761-707 83 82
Tel. F: 03 89 33 96 29 Leave a Comment
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 Martinstor by german_eagle
It is, however, still charming. Narrow cobbled alleys and especially the Baechle are picturesque and provide an atmosphere of the past.
My favourite walk was early in the morning. I started about 7.30 on a Monday morning when the town was seemingly sleeping. Later, especially in the afternoon, the streets became more and more filled with crowds. Leave a Comment
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 Stolpersteine by Nemorino
Like many other German cities, Freiburg is trying translate the statistic of six million Jews murdered by the Nazis back into the tragedy of individual people dragged from their homes and put to death. They do this by setting little squares of metal into the street or sidewalk in front of the houses where the people used to live. The two in the photo are embedded in the street in front of my hotel in the Rathausgasse in Freiburg. The one on the left reads:
Here lived
Sofie Rosentahl
neé Bloch
Born 1889
Deported 1940
Gurs
Murdered in
Auschwitz
and the one on the right:
Here lived
Julian Rosenthal
Born 1878
Deported 1940
Gurs
Murdered 1942 in
Auschwitz
These little squares of metal are known as "stumbling blocks" (Stolpersteine), but you can stumble over them only in a figurative sense, meaning you are made aware that these two murdered people used to live right here, so they aren't just statistics, but real people.
The "stumbling blocks" are an initiative of the artist Gunter Demnig, born 1947 in Berlin.
http://www.stolpersteine.com/ Leave a Comment
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 View from Schlossberg,
Freiburg, Germany by Zandra
For even better views of Freiburg and surroundings; pass the Biergarten and continue the path up until you reach the view platform.
Visit the restaurant's homepage to get an impression of the Schlossberg! http://www.greiffenegg.de
When I studied in Freiburg, we used to visit the Biergarten quite often, to enjoy the sun, the view and chat away over a couple of beers...
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 Bertoldsbrunnen from the
street by suubi
Left is the heart of Freiburg, "Bertolds Brunnen". This is the meeting point for the whole of Freiburg. The city begins and ends here, that is, before a walk on the shopping streets peolpe meet at this point and at the end of the day they depart from this point.
Having toured the beautiful historical side of Freiburg comprising of historical buildings like the “Kaufhaus” and Monuments like the town gates, you can then continue with its natural resources above all the “Black forest”. Leave a Comment
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 by Todd64
Freiburgers don't have a T.V tower as such to speak of, and we all know how much the Germans love to brag about their T.V towers (just talk to any Düsseldorferanian) so they have to find other things and this, as well as their DOM, is one of them.
Going inside, sitting down, having a beer and simply soaking in the atmosphere of this rich and truly beautiful antique. I swear some of the patrons looked like they were born before the Great War, but yet they still looked 'fresh' somehow; must be the air. Esthetics are everything. Leave a Comment
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 Kaiser-Joseph Street,
Freuburg by hunterV
The central shopping street is Kaiser-Joseph Street.
We began our acquaintance of the city with this street. Leave a Comment
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 Stadtgarten by yumyumLeave a Comment
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