Old Henrichenburg boat lift

Some month ago I published some photos from the Henrichenburg boat lift, the new lift from 1962. Today I present some photos from the old boat lift. This boat lift was opened in 1899. This lift is 67 Meters long, 8.2 Meters wide, with a draft of 2 Meters and lift it through a height of 14 Meters to the higher level. It was closed in 1962 after the new was opened. Now it is a part of the Westfälian Industrial Museum. But they could not bring this lift back into use. So we hope they keep in use the new boat lift, now part of the museum too. It will be very interesting in future times to see the the technique from today.

 

A candle for .......

The coming days and weeks are the days of memories, memories of people that died. This year many peple all over the world died by natural disaster. But this year many people died because they wanted to live free. They only wanted to have the right of self-determination. This candle is burning for all of them. On behalf of them I refer to the people of Burma and Tibet.

 

Contrast in the last days of October

In the open air 
Indoors 

Rainy Friday

On this rainy Friday, everything looks dark and gray, so I want to bring some colors into the life again.

Indian Summer

Tribute to the voice of Latin America

Mercedes Sosa, the voice of Latin America died yesterday, here her most famous song.

Orchids and Lilies

This is a time with many bad news, Typhoons over the Philippines and Vietnam, Tsunami in Samoa, many earthquakes in Indonesia, monsoon in India and landslip in Italy. This we shall not forget, this ugly face of nature. But there is another side of the nature and we can see it too, sometimes.

Sumatra earthquake and Samoa tsunami

World Children's Day

On the 20th of September there was the World Children's Day, celebrated in many countries. In the school of my son, chlidren made drums for this day and they played the drums for many reasons, they have the right do be wrong sometimes, to be loud. And they have been drumming to remind that no one shall do harm to children.

I added the famous song Kinder (Children) from Bettina Wegner, a song also performed by Joan Baez and many other, but here as the original

Oktoberfest

The Oktoberfest in Munich the largest festival in the world started yesterday again. It is an festival with an old tradition and now of course a very big business. About 6 million visitors from all around the world come to see this festival every year. There are about 100,000 seats in the big festival halls (tents). The economic influence is very big too, during the 16 days are spent 450 Mio EURO on the festival grounds for food, drinks and entertainment. The photos are from webcams from today.
Here are some links for this festival:
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/
http://www.loewenbraeu.de/
http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/7548/index.html