Made it back to Berlin for a few day of work meetings last week, for this first time since 2017. Spent almost all the time in our office and its environs, in a for-me entirely new quarter of the city where I discovered amongst other things this interesting little legacy gateway / entrance.
So this rather differently-styled entrance is to the church noted in a previous post as Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church. What I’d never tuned into was just how very baroque and old-style some of those early protestants could be. For example, I blithely assumed it was a catholic church because when I was growing up, the only place you saw an actual body on the cross in the sanctuary was in catholic churches. Similarly, I don’t usually see such dramatic renditions of Archangel Michael (after whom this church is named) trampling Satan as one sees in the statues above this main entrance. Eek, eh? All this imagery of trampling, taming, binary good-evil simplifications of complex realities and so on leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth, tbh, so I’ma just pop all my remaining pics of this particular building in this one post and move on to other views in our future HH posts 😊.
As noted in the last entry for this series, one finds urban canals even outside NL, once one starts looking. Hadn’t been to this particular city in quite some time, and you’ll be seeing more of it in upcoming posts. If you’d like to verify your own guess about which city it is, open in full-screen view so you can see the “categories” and “tags” :-).
Exact same archway-entrance as our last post in this series, but turned around to look at HH’s St. Michaelis Kirche, which the guidebook tells is Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church.
Turns out that once you start looking for them, you’ll find urban canals and rivers in many cities other than Amsterdam, including this lovely little waterway that connects Hamburg’s Alster to it’s busily-trafficked shipping river, the Elbe, en route flowing past its dramatic city hall (seen here).
Borkum has three lighthouses, all of which you will see in due course, more than once most likely. This one is called the New Lighthouse, and sits now in the middle of the main village on the island, a short walk from the main beach and also from the mini-train station, which is what conveys most ferry passengers to town from the ferry port several kilometers away. (There are car ferries, but most folks don’t bother bringing cars over it seems.)
Taken from up in the air inside the old water tower museum on Borkum, looking west. The beach basket sunset photo you saw in our last Islands post was taken more or less behind that tall tower you see in the middle distance on the left side, which is known as the new lighthouse. The windows on the water tower didn’t open, hence the wee reflection you may notice to the left of the tower, sorry…windows seem to go with the territory of “up in the air” shots….
(so much world, so little time....) 