Tag: History of Bavaria
Bavaria: History of the advent calendar in the Neukirchen pilgrimage museum – Bavaria
Advent calendars are as popular as ever. The pilgrimage museum Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut shows in an exhibition how this custom came about, how it survived dictatorships and what other…
The fascination of the advent calendar – Bavaria
Advent calendars are as popular as ever. The pilgrimage museum Neukirchen bei Heiligen Blut shows in an exhibition how this custom came about, how it survived dictatorships and what other…
Bavaria: Study shows discrimination against Sinti and Roma – Bavaria
Even the tattooed concentration camp number was recorded in the files of survivors as an “identifier” – a “particular shamelessness”, says Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Council of German…
Bavaria: How a Swedish journalist experienced Germany in 1946 – Bavaria
Need and misery, that was the German great powers in 1946. “It was a dreary autumn with rain and cold, hunger crises in the Ruhr area and hunger without crises…
Upper Palatinate: barns, the quiet companions of the landscape – Bavaria
The barns and sheds are undoubtedly some of the little noticed structures in our landscape. They would have so much to tell us about good and gentle building, about sustainability…
Regensburg: House of Bavarian History is planning a show at Olympia – Bavaria
“Off to the fight…” smashes the crowd in the torero song, which is known from the opera Carmen. One can confidently say that this reputation has also shaped Bavarian sports…
Bavaria and Olympia from 1896 until today. – Bavaria
“Off to the fight…” smashes the crowd in the torero song, which is known from the opera Carmen. One can confidently say that this reputation has also shaped Bavarian sports…
Opera in Nazi ruins? Historian Drecoll warns of time constraints. – Bavaria
Interview by Olaf Przybilla, Nuremberg The city of Nuremberg wants to decide in the coming week whether an interim opera building should be built on the former Nazi party rally…
In Untersteinach, thieves stole the steel heraldic animal. – Bavaria
In the Upper Franconian town of Untersteinach, thieves steal the steel figure of the heraldic animal there. A sacrilege beyond compare, because it comes from the realm of mythical creatures,…
Bavaria: Towns and houses in historical photographs – Bavaria
Photographs from bygone times exude something magical. They cast a spell on the viewer because they allow glimpses into vanished worlds, because a short piece of time is frozen on…