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the biggest fire-brigade museum in east Germany
Sympathisant Says: Beside lots of fire-trucks you can gaze smaller equipments like pumps and water canons, and their development through the centuriesit´s really fascinating!
Sympathisant Says: This zoo is not that big attraction but somehow really snugly, though.You can see hogs, boars, donkeys, stags, deers and so onthe cutest are the raccoons! ;-)as kids we used to gather acorns and chestnuts to better our pocket money selling it to the owner ;-)
Sympathisant Says: "Insel" is island in Englishit´s situated between a new and an old arm of the Oder-Spree-Channelit´s a huge recreation area with nice beds of flowers, fountains, cosy trails, lots of benches, places to lie in the sun and people, who make a decent walkyou can play mini-Golf,...
Sympathisant Says: Make a trip with the steamer along the channel, down the watergate Zwillingsschachtschleuse to Oder river, watch Fürstenberg passing by, see the bombed bridge and lots of beautiful landscape while having a tea, a coffee and some cake inside.Or you go up the deck and enjoy...
Sympathisant Says: Ready-made in 1929 it ensures a smooth traffic between Oder-Spree-Channel and Oder river 15m below. The procedure takes about 30 min.It works this way:you have two chambers! ("Zwilling" means twin in English)at the start of the process always one is completely filled with...
this one alone is worth the way!
Sympathisant Says: Since 1993 the Documentation Centre of Everyday Life in the GDR develops to a touristical magnet in the region. Goal of that institute is to research the life in the GDR and to present it. It has a collection of more than 70 000 items.Everyone willing has here finally the...
Hotel Fürstenberg: a good one in Fürstenberg
Sympathisant Says: As I´m living in Eisenhüttenstadt I never stayed in any Hotel here. ;-)But I think it´s one of the most frequented.They have a rather good webpage:http://www.hotel-fuerstenberg-oder.de near the centre of Fürstenbergvery homely atmosphere
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Eisenhüttenstadt is interesting in the context of history.
Some areas are looking very gloomy, so do not few people...
keep to the youth and younger people!
and only them do speak English
most of our bus drivers are f**kers
the Taxi drivers are fine, I think
Unique Suggestions: just decent behaviour, like everywhere abroad
Fun Alternatives: there´s no alternative ;-)
you have to come to Eisenhüttenstadt!
Written Nov 27, 2002
das Schlaubetal / Schlaube valley
Sympathisant Says: Hike one of Germany´s most beautiful brooke scenery.It´s a very small water, though, but situated in an old forest with water mills, small lakes and fogs.
Sympathisant Says: Neuzelle is a village 8 km south of Eisenhüttenstadt.There is an old monastery with an huge and richly outfitted church. Next to it is a nice park with an orangery.see the travelouge for pics !!
Sympathisant Says: Well, today the steel works has a gloomy future. Hope/enthusiasm and despair/depression are still taking turns now but sooner or later it may sink into insignificance. I mean, today 2500 people are working there. That is what is left of more than 11 000 in 1989. But, still,...
part VI, Stalinstadt becomes Eisenhüttenstadt
Sympathisant Says: According to the plans of architect Kurt W. Leucht, who was responsible for the urbanistic and architectural design, the city should be complete after the finishing of the first four residental complexes.However, by upgrading of the steel works and the affiliated moving in...
part V, foundation of Stalinstadt
Sympathisant Says: After the formation of the German Democratic Republic, on October the 7th 1949, at the III. Party Congress in July 1950 the building of a steel woks combination was decided (Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost - EKO).On August the 18th coverage work began. Start of construction for the...
Sympathisant Says: With the beginnig of WW II Fürstenberg was drawn into the war. Since 1939 a prison camp for war prisoners arose. It contained ca. 10000 inmates - workers for the armament industry, which settled as Degussa in Fürstenberg. In peak-periods 50 000 were inprisoned in that camp...
Sympathisant Says: The constantly growing volume of traffic made a broadening of the channels bed necessitative. Between 1925-1929 "Zwillingsschachtschleuse" was build. It´s a 15m high watergate, which replaced several smaller ones. It´s still in use and was declared a technical monument. (See...
Sympathisant Says: In the village Schönfließ closeby a lignite (brown coal) mine (surface mining!) was opened in 1857. In 1858 the guild of basket makers was founded, 1864 saw the creation of Fürstenbergs glassworks.In 1880 the "Schleppergesellschaft Fürstenberger Schiffer" arose (society of...
Sympathisant Says: Eisenhüttenstadt is an unique mix of the medieval town of Fürstenberg (Oder), the village Schönfließ and the new city, which was build in the fifties to house all the people working in the arising steel plant EKO, Wohnstadt. At that time it was named Stalinstadt.The year...
Eisenhüttenstadt is planned. The "old" centre is looking like a chess-board from above. Still, somehow all ways seem to lead you to the main gates of the huge steel factory that gave the city its...
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