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database of German
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Historical architecture |
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Berlin
Berlin is not an imperial or
world city in the manner of London or Paris. It subsequently lacks the grand
institutions that go with such identity. It is, however, a city that
embodies many cultural and historic movements architecturally, showing off
its huge intellectual legacy to the world (something the aforementionnned
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Frankfort
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The three pillar industries of Frankfurt are finance, exhitibions and
transport; it is the transport hub of Germany. Frankfurt has been
Germany's financial capital for centuries. The
Frankfurt Stock
Exchange is Germany's largest, the site of 85% of Germany's turnover in
stocks, and one of the world's biggest. Frankfurt is also the home of
the European Central Bank and the German Bundesbank. Many large trade
fairs also call Frankfurt home. |
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Lübeck
The ancient harbour town, a centre of international trade since the
Middle Ages and the “Queen of the Hanseatic League“, has been on
UNESCO’s List of World Cultural Heritage Sites since 1987. |
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Lüneburg
The old
Hanseatic city of Lüneburg with more than 1300 national monuments
yearly attracts tens of thousands of tourists.
Die Giebel und Gassen, das Rathaus, der alte Hafen, die Hauptkirchen
St. Johannis, St. Michaelis und St. Nikolai und die Patrizierhäuser
sind uns allen vertraut.
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Top
ten Berlin architecture
The city has no definite centre and pockets of
attractions are dotted all over. The densest array of sights lies to
the east of the Brandenburg Gate, on either side of Unter den
Linden. |
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Top Ten Nazi Architecture
The Nazi revolution in Germany needed
architecture to bequeath a new image to history, and to offer
contemporary society a strong rallying point. The Classical,
monumental style replaced the modern style. |
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Contemporary architecture |
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Special Features |
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Germany 1929 gallery.
The old Germany lost forever. |
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German Synagogues
Although Cologne is home to the oldest known
Jewish community north of the Alps, dating to over 300 years A.D.,
all that remains of medieval Cologne Judaism is the Mikve next to
the Cologne Rathaus. |
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Synagogues destroyed
The Nazi persecution of the Jews culminated in
the Holocaust, in which approximately 6 million European Jews were
deported and murdered during the Second World War. |
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This month's featured building |
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Mossehaus 1922
Erich Mendelsohn Schutzenstrasse 18-25
Berlin-Mitte
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Since the period of the Berliner Tageblatt building, Mendelsohn had
developed a strong association with the editor Rudolf Mosse, who
appreciated not only Mendelsohn’s creative abilities, but also his
intellectual acuity and literary versatility. This heating plant is
another inspired work, using vertical panels of white brickwork,
articulated and partly separated by metal uprights and beams. The
disparity in height between the two blocks is emphasized by the curved
profile, which avoids a mere confrontation between rectangular volumes.
On both sides, the low windows of the upper floor create ventilation.
The window of the main facade cuts across the entire building, while
that on the side facade occupies two areas and is connected to a door.
This precise work demonstrates that Mendelsohn’s skill did not depend
solely upon a violently plastic form of expression.
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