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The Adventurous Simplicissimus by Grimmelshausen
Nemorino Says: My first encounter with Grimmelshausen's great novel was on a dark winter's night around 1960, when I read parts of it from a tiny yellow Reclam edition by the light of a tiny round reading lamp in a Greyhound bus on an all-night run from Chicago to New York, on my way back...
One of the oldest restaurants in Germany
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. The restaurant "Zum Löwen" in Gelnhausen 2. Plaque on the restaurantThe plaque on this restaurant says it is "one of the oldest restaurants in Germany, first mentioned in 1506 (by Dr. Johannes Faustus). Owned by the same family since 1639.""Zum Löwen" means "to the...
Nemorino Says: The Gelnhausen Town Hall was first built in 1333 as a market hall, but has been used as the Town Hall since the 16th century. To this day the mayor and city administration have their offices here.In front of the Town Hall there is a life-size statue of a lantern lighter,...
Altes Weinkellerchen: Wine Celler from the 13th Century!
Weissdorn Says: The Dieulangard Family has filled this cellar with all sorts of antique stuff, including canon balls from Napoleon, that they found in this cellar, when they dug it out a little deeper. There are even two wells in the cellar that still have water in them! Actually this is...
Buarat Gasthaus: Biker's Favourite Stop
Weissdorn Says: For those searching for local fare at fair prices, try the Baurat Gasthaus. The food is local German, and a little mixed; i.e. you can get Schnitzel Wiener Style (fried breaded pork filets), as well as Hessian specialities, such as "Rippchen mit Kraut". They're open daily...
Bicycle routes in the Kinzig Valley
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. Bicycle route R3 near Gelnhausen2. The R3 in the woods upstream from Gelnhausen3. ADFC hotline and websiteIn tips on my Bad Orb and Steinau an der Straße pages I have already mentioned the regional bicycle route R3, which goes along the Main River to Hanau, from...
Actually playing on a play street
Nemorino Says: This is the one place in Gelnhausen where I saw some people actually playing on a play street. Three children and one adult were throwing a ball around and shooting some baskets in this very short and narrow play street (a short section of Herlengasse, I believe), despite...
Play Streets and Traffic Calming
Nemorino Says: Gelnhausen as I remember it from the 1970s was an automotive nightmare, with huge creeping traffic jams extending the entire length of the city and then coming together in front of the U.S. Army caserne at an intersection where left turns were necessary but practically...
Nemorino Says: Sorry to keep harping on this, but I am always outraged to see that every German city and town still has vending machines right out in the open that sell cigarettes day and night.The only slight improvement is that since 2007 buyers are required to insert a card proving they...
Nemorino Says: No, crêpes are not a Local Custom of Gelnhausen, but because the "Heart of Europe" Choir Competition was an international event with lots of foreign visitors, some crêpe makers came from great distances and set up their stands in the Obermarkt or Upper Market Square, which...
Nemorino Says: Since becoming the geographic mid-point of the EU, Gelnhausen has started becoming a lot more Europey (is there such a word?) than it used to be.They have even put up signs pointing to the exact mid-point, where they have set up a circle of benches and banners.In the summer...
Mid-point of the European Union
Nemorino Says: There are various ways of calculating where the geographical center of the European Union is. For one thing, you have to decide whether to include all the outlying islands that belong to France, Spain and Portugal.The various institutes involved have now agreed that all...
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. The former Coleman Housing Area, 20102. Looking through the fence, 2010Like the adjoining Coleman Caserne, this housing area was used by US troops for nearly half a century after the Second World War. After the caserne was closed in 1992, the housing area continued...
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. Former Coleman Caserne, 20102. Looking in through the fence, 20103. Abandoned caserne, 2010For nearly half a century after the Second World War, units of the American Army were stationed in Gelnhausen at Coleman Caserne. The last American troops left the...
Nemorino Says: On the site of the former American Elementary School, the regional government (Kreis Main-Kinzig) is building a new education center which will have modern seminars rooms and other facilities for use by a variety of educational institutions, including the Adult Education...
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. Butten Tower2. Entrance to the Butten TowerThis tower is up on the hill behind the Burckhardt House. It is presumably the oldest existing tower in Gelnhausen, having been built in the year 1328 as part of the outer defense ring of the city.When I was there in 2010...
Seminar building at Burckhardthaus
Nemorino Says: This seminar building at the back (upper) end of the Burckhardt House property is where I used to hold teacher training seminars in the 1970s, back in the days when we had enough money in the budget to pay for that sort of thing.This is a very practical purpose-built seminar...
Nemorino Says: Photos:1. Burckhardt House in Gelnhausen2. Looking up at the Burckhardt HouseAnother prominent feature of Gelnhausen is the "White Villa" of Burckhardt House, which like St. Mary's Church is visible from many places up and down the Kinzig Valley.Until 2008 the White Villa...
Old Town - just a stone's throw from Frankfurt
Weissdorn Says: Above all, this city is often visited to admire the half-timbered houses. Once an uninteresting city, with a U.S. Military outpost, this city has transformed in the past few decades, carefully restoring their historical treasures, to present visitors with some of the best...
Weissdorn Says: The Emperor Frederick I, who was also known as Barbarossa, founded the imperial town in 1170 by conglomerating three tiny villages. Imperial privileges and the convenient travel routes soon made this town an attraction for tradesmen and craftsmen, and soon, the town became a...
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In the year 1200 the people of Gelnhausen decided to build a church, which – different than St. Mary’s Church- was not to be under protection of a patron, but...
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Q: how many rooms? do they have private baths
A: http://www.schelm-von-bergen.com/ is the website. It says there are rooms for maximum 14 people, but gives no information on baths etc. They do not appear to have an...
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At the beginning of the year 2007 Romania and Bulgaria became members of the European Union (EU). This had the effect of shifting the geographical center of the European Union 110 miles (177 km) to...
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It's hard to imagine that this small town, just a short drive away from Frankfurt/M, was once the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, THE center of the known world, in fact. Because Frankfurt/M is a big...
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* Gelnhausen, population: 22,000 a Kinzig river city that was established on important trade routes and it was once the seat of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, Barbarossa (1122-1190). It would be...
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