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| Sunday, 12-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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VOELKLINGER IRONWORKS II
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I have taken 100 photos - the reduction to 24 was very difficult...
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| Saturday, 11-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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VOELKLINGER IRONWORKS - WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE I
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1873
The iron and steel industry engineer Julius Bruch, builds an ironworks near V�lklingen Six years later, he has ceased operation again./the works is closed again. The high rates verteuern the import of pig iron.
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1881
The Saarbr�cken businessman Carl R�chling buys the closed works in V�lklingen. He prefers the production of pig iron: 1883 the first blast furnace goes into operation.
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1890
New infrastructure impovement of Carl R�chling shows succes: The �V�lklinger Eisenwerk Gebr. R�chling in V�lklingen� (The R�chling Brothers V�lklinger Ironworks in V�lklingen) is the biggest steel girder producer in the German Empire.
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1891
Carl R�chling introduces the Thomas process at the V�lklinger H�tte relatively late. Minette from Lothringen can now be mass smelted in V�lklingen. The iron-ore from Lothringen was to be used in V�lklingen until 1963.
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1897
The first coke oven battery was erected directly adjacent to the blast furnace in V�lklingen. The R�chling family has considerable experience in the coking of coal. They have operated one of the largest coking plants in the Saarland industrial region at Sulzbachtal.
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1900
Two years earlier experiments with the use of blast furnace gas for the driving of power engines were successfully completed.Blast furnace gas had established itself for propelling internal combustion engines. The R�chling brothers immediately recognised the significance of the gas engine for the further development of the iron and steel industry. The blast engine building was erected some distance away from the blast furnaces.
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1911
The inclined ore lift is built in V�lklingen. Production of by-products of iron and steel manufacture is pushed ahead. The company product range now also includes Thomas slag as a fertiliser, ammoniac, benzene and various tar products. The processing of waste materials from the coking plant in particular � in the so-called coal by-product operations � proves to be an important source of income for the V�lklinger Works.
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1928
Sintering technology offers the opportunity to recycle waste products from the smelting processes � i.e. ore dust, blast furnace flue dust. One of the most modern sintering plants in Europe is built in V�lklingen - and one of the biggest at that time. Materials with a grain size that is too fine for use in the blast furnaces at 1300�C are heated to form a sinter cake in the sinter plant and then broken into the correct piece sizes.
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1944
During the Second World War thousands of men and women are employed at the V�lklinger Works � especially from Russland,Italy, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg. Many are victims of the excessively hard labour and the bad conditions at the ironworks. At the end of the war the ironworks goes back into operation under French management.
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1952
Production reaches its peak in V�lklingen. The post-war building boom assures outstanding turnover figures for the R�chling Iron and Steel Works.
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1965
More than 17,000 people work at the V�lklinger H�tte. The highest number of employees in the history of the works is reached.
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1975
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1980
A new steelworks is built close to the V�lklinger ironworks. Pig iron from the blast furnace is converted to steel in a blast steel process and is formed in a rolling mill close by.
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1986
The V�lklinger H�tte blast furnaces are shut down. Thousands lose their jobs. The iron age draws to an end in V�lklingen.
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1992
The Saarland Council of Ministers agrees to preserve parts of the closed works that are significant as historic monuments. The ironworks become an industrial monument.
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1994
With the listing of the V�lklinger H�tte as the first industrial monument on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites list a new phase begins in the history of the ironworks. It is the only surviving ironworks in the world from the heyday of iron and steel production and a unique testimony to an industrial epoch of the past.
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1999
The Saarland establishes the new carrier organisation the World Cultural Heritage Site, European Centre for Art and Industrial Heritage.
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2000
For the first time, more than 104,000 people visit the Voelklinnger Huette World Cultural Heritage.
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2004
The Science Center �Ferrodrom� - adventure world of iron � opens in the burden hall. 10-years jubiliary of the Voelklinger ironworks at UNESCO-World Cultural Heritage.
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| Friday, 10-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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SUNFLOWERS
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| Thursday, 9-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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TRIP From MUNICH TO ROSENHEIM VISIT THE AFGHANISTAN EXHIBITION
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typical Bavarian bretzel in a beer garden
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we are drinking a Russian: half beer, half limonde
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a yurt in front of the train-maintenance
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These are my last vacation photos.
First you see how it looks like in a famous typical Bavarian beer garden, in the 'Hirschgarten' in Munich.
I liked the ambient of the museum in Rosenheim. It was an old train-maintenance.
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| Wednesday, 8-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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WATERLILIES IN THE BOTANICAL GARDEN OF MUNICH
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I was really impressed of the blooming waterlilies outside and in the Victoria-House
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| Tuesday, 7-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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FLOWERS OF THE BOTANICAL GARDEN IN MUNICH
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My favorite plant in the glass house is the capparis spinosa. I am dreaming of having one...
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| Monday, 6-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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BOTANICAL GARDEN IN MUNICH
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It's a duty for me in each saison to visit the Botanical Garden in Munich.
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| Sunday, 5-Sep-2004 00:00 |
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Trip from Munich to Austria
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We have had much fun driving with a Smart to the Attersee in Austria, visiting a culoir and swimming in that beautiful sea.
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| Monday, 30-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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HOLIDAYS IN BAVARIA - THE NYPHENBURG PARK
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| Tuesday, 3-Aug-2004 00:00 |
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THE GOBLINS OF COLOGNE ( Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln)
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The Goblins
This story goes back to the "good old times" of which we modern people always speak with a sigh of regret.
It was then when good-natured goblins appeared to mortal eyes, and tried to render the life of the troubled human race a little more cheerful. In groves and dens they had magnificent dwellings and watched there over the enormous mineral treasures of the earth.
Often these beneficent elves were busy miners or sometimes clever artisans. We all know that they manufactured the precious trinkets and arms of the Nibelungen treasure.
Deep in the interior of the earth they lived happily together, ruled over by a king. They could be called the harmless friends of darkness, because they were not allowed to come into broad daylight. If they did so, they were transformed into stones.
The goblins did not always remain underground. On the contrary they often came to the earth's surface through certain holes, called goblin-holes, but they always avoided meeting man.
Alas! the advance of civilisation has driven these friendly spirits gradually from the places where they used to do so much good. None of us, I am sure has ever had the good luck of meeting one of them.
The goblins were of different sizes. Sometimes they were as small as one's thumb, sometimes as large as the hand of a child of four years old. The most remarkable feature of these tiny figures was the enormous head and the pointed hump that so often adorned their backs. Their look was on the whole more comical than ugly. German people used to call them "Heinzchen" or "Heinzelmännchen."
A long time ago the good town of Cologne was inhabited by a host of dwarfs, and the honest population knew a great many stories about them. The workmen and artisans especially had, through the assistance of the little wights, far more holidays than are marked in the calendar.
When the carpenters for instance were lying on their benches in sweet repose, those little men came swiftly and stealthily along, they took up the tools and chiselled and sawed and hammered with a will, and thus, records the poetical chronicles which I am quoting, before the carpenters woke up, the house stood there finished. In the same way things went on with the baker. While his lads were snoring, the little goblins came to help. They groaned under the load of heavy corn-sacks, they kneaded and weighed the flour, lifted and pushed the bread into the oven, and before the lazy bakers opened their eyes, the morning bread, brown and crisp, was lying in rows on the table.
The butchers too could speak of similar agreeable experiences. The good little men chopped, mixed and stirred with all their might, and when the drowsy butcher .opened his eyes at last, he found the fresh, steaming sausages adorning the walls of his shop.
The cooper enjoyed also the help of the busy dwarfs, and :even the tailor could not complain of the goblins having neglected him.
Once Mr. Cotton, a clever tailor, had the honour of making a Sunday coat for the mayor of the town. He worked diligently at it, but you can easily imagine that in the heat of the summer afternoon, the needle soon dropped from his hand, and he fell fast asleep. Hush! -- look there. One little goblin after the other crept cautiously from his hiding place.
They climbed on the table and began the tailor's work, and stitched and sewed and fitted and pressed, as if they had been masters of the needle all their lives.
When Master Cotton awoke, he found to his great joy the mayor's Sunday coat ready made, and so neatly and well done that he could present the magnificent garment with pride to the head of the town.
The pretty wife of Mr. Cotton looked at this master-piece of her husband's art with a mischievous twinkle in her eyes.
In the night when her husband had fallen asleep, she rose from her bed without making the slightest noise, and scattered pease all over the floor of the workshop; she then put a half-finished suit on the table. She kept a small lantern hidden under her apron, and waited behind the door listening. Soon after the room was full of little men all tumbling, failing, and slipping over the pease. Yells and screams rose at the same time. The poor little men were indeed much bruised and hurt. Without stopping they ran downstairs and disappeared.
The tailor's wife heard the noise, and thought it good sport. When the yells were loudest, she suddenly opened the door to see her visitors, but she came too late. Not a single goblin was left behind.
Since that time the friendly dwarfs have never more been seen in Cologne, and in other places also they have entirely disappeared.
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hi im a student at a steiner school and in german we are learning this story i think it is very good story xxxxxxx
