Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White. These popular fairy tales have a history beyond the Disney movies that made them popular world-wide. They have first been published in 1812 as part of a collection known as Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – known as Grimm brothers. It is interesting however that the Grimms …
Traffic on the main street of Salmünster is reduced to a few cars of the local people as a result of the freeway and the modernized road that is avoiding the historic center. A large number of the buildings along the main street are either half-timbered houses or have their walls covered with wooden shingles …
Just where the commercial zone ended at the outskirts of the village, the road became optimized for car traffic. While there were sidewalks all along the road within the limits of the long stretched settlement of Aufenau, here were only crash barriers. Cars rushed along the modern road at or above the allowed limit of …
Globalization may be a modern buzz word, but it is reality in Hamburg for more than 100 years. The city built a whole warehouse district in the late 19th century for precious goods from around the world: the historic Speicherstadt (literally: warehouse city). If you’re in Hamburg, make sure the historic Speicherstadt is on your …
Imagine a railway pulling super-heavy trains across a mountain range in the Arctic. That’s the Ore Line from Kiruna to Narvik. There are several ways you can explore this impressive route. Iron ore from the mine at Kiruna in Swedish Lapland is shipped by this railway for more than 100 years now to the ice-free …
The railway bridge across the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh in Scotland is one of the most iconic bridges in the world. During my last visit to Scotland I enjoyed spending some time taking pictures of the historic Forth Bridge. South Queensferry at the southern end of the bridge is a small town less than …
1848 was a year of unrest in Germany. Inspired by the new French Second Republic, created in February, Germans also wanted more democracy. On 13.April 1848 Friedrich Hecker led a column of about 30 men from Constance in an open attempt to topple the government of the Duchy of Baden and declare a republic. Seven …
The Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the jungle of Southern India has the steepest slope of any railway in Asia. What is the reason that a railway line was built through such difficult terrain? As the name suggests, the Nilgiri Mountain Railway connects Mettupalayam on the plains of southern India with Ooty (or Udhagamandalam) in the …
42.195 km or 26 miles and 385 yards. Those numbers are familiar to the hundreds of thousands of people, who take up running as a sport. It is the distance of a Marathon Race. Many runners know that it commemorates the Battle of Marathon in ancient Greece. However, there are some surprising facts, when …
Melbourne was neither the biggest nor the oldest city in the Australian colonies in 1854. Yet on 12. September of that year the inhabitants gathered to watch cutting edge technology in their town. The opening of the first railway line in Australia. Let’s take a closer look why modern transportation made its way to that …
