Tag: History of Bavaria
Childhood in Bavaria: It will never be this beautiful again – Bavaria
From today’s point of view it is almost unimaginable what a person of respect a pastor used to be. Well-behaved country-kids regarded him as some kind of unearthly being. One…
On the trail of Jewish life – Bavaria
Since its opening in 1926, the “Schocken” in the southern part of the city has been the most well-known department store in Nuremberg. The cube-like building by Erich Mendelsohn not…
Nuremberg: The end of a monument – Bavaria
The bill, which Nuremberg’s city planning committee will vote on this Thursday, makes no effort to cover up. First sentence: “One of the oldest and probably the only largely preserved…
The Upper Palatinate from A to Z in magazine format – Bavaria
“We are quite sad,” two readers recently told the SZ. Her frustration is based on the year-end letter, which the publisher Erich Laßleben, based in Kallmünz, traditionally included in the…
Feldafing: The brownest village on Lake Starnberg
The municipality of Feldafing wants to come to terms with its Nazi past: the historian couple Marita Krauss and Erich Kasberger bring to light not only atrocities but also absurd…
Problems of greeting culture in Bavaria and Austria – Bavaria
A dispute has broken out among politicians in Vienna about greetings. In Bavaria, incorrect greetings were even punished by disciplinary measures. It’s more casual today. But it’s still disreputable not…
Main-Danube-Canal: curse and blessing of a construction of the century – Bavaria
The low point of the project had already been reached before the Main-Danube Canal was opened. Around noon on March 26, 1979, pools of water formed at the sewer construction…
Bamberg: When police students bawl songs by Helene Fischer – Bavaria
Earlier, it would have been unthinkable, this lack of discipline. The Uhlans were stationed in Bamberg’s barracks and does anyone seriously think they would have bellowed Helene Fischer? After sunset?…
Bavaria: The war criminal of Pielenhofen – Bavaria
For decades, a picture of a man in an SS uniform hung in the monastery church. This was a war criminal sentenced to death who sent people to the gas…
Dealing with “Hitler’s favorite landscape painter” Hermann Gradl – Bavaria
Hermann Gradl was a Nazi profiteer, but was also celebrated for his pictures in post-war Franconia. In his native town of Marktheidenfeld, violent conflicts were fought over his inheritance. Now…