Mein Norden - Hamburg - Hafen Momente

 

“Wie auch die Mutter sich bemühte, ihn an den Deich und an das Land zu gewöhnen - er sprach von der See und guckte nach den Schiffen, als wenn es weiter nichts auf der Welt gäbe.”

― Gorch Fock

New Year is not about changing the Dates but Direction;
It's not about changing the Calendar but Commitment;
It's not about changing the Actions but Attitude;
It's not about changing the Fruit but Faith, Force, and Focus!
May you Commit and Create the best New Year ever!

Cordially yours,

 isabella 

Skywatch Friday - Image-in-Ing - My Corner of the World  - Dèfifoto 

Hamburg Speicherstadt - eins und alles

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Eins und Alles

Im Grenzenlosen sich zu finden,

Wird gern der Einzelne verschwinden,

Da löst sich aller Überdruß;

Statt heißem Wünschen, wildem Wollen,

Statt läst'gem Fordern, strengem Sollen,

Sich aufzugeben ist Genuß.

Weltseele, komm, uns zu durchdringen!

Dann mit dem Weltgeist selbst zu ringen

Wird unsrer Kräfte Hochberuf.

Teilnehmend führen gute Geister,

Gelinde leitend, höchste Meister

Zu dem, der alles schafft und schuf.

Und umzuschaffen das Geschaffne,

Damit sich's nicht zum Starren waffne,

Wirkt ewiges, lebendiges Tun.

Und was nicht war, nun will es werden

Zu reinen Sonnen, farb'gen Erden,

In keinem Falle darf es ruhn.

Es soll sich regen, schaffend handeln,

Erst sich gestalten, dann verwandeln;

Nur scheinbar steht's Momente still.

Das Ew'ge regt sich fort in allen:

Denn alles muß in Nichts zerfallen,

Wenn es im Sein beharren will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

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my North - a Love Story

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“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”

— Herman Hesse

Our World Tuesday  

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Hamburg Moments - 6 - 14

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Speicherstadt and HafenCity: for several years these two areas grew up together, until 2008 when they were united and became an official district of Hamburg.While the historical warehouse area of Speicherstadt has long shaped Hamburg's cityscape with its brick, neo-Gothic architecture, the new development area of HafenCity, sits directly on the banks of the Elbe with an array of more modern designs.

Experience Speicherstadt

For a visit with an eye cast towards the past, have a look around the Speicherstadt. The listed buildings now house leisure activities such as the Minatur Wunderland with fascinating toy railway worlds, and Hamburg Dungeon. In this attraction visitors take a ghostly journey through the metropolis's history.

Museums can also be found in the Speicherstadt. There is German Customs Museum (Deutsche Zollmuseum), which tells the tale of customs and smuggling in Hamburg, or the International Maritime Museum with thousands of ship models and nautical charts.

Outside the old warehouses there is also plenty to do. In the long drawn out channels between the rows of buildings the barges glide along.

Despite the different architecture and the contrast of new and old, the Speicherstadt and the adjacent HafenCity are both united by their connection to the water.

by Old and New by the River Elbe





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Hamburg Moments 5

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Die Fürsten schaffen sich Unsterblichkeit durch ihre Bauten.

Heraklit von Ephesus (etwa 540 - 480 v. Chr.)

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Hamburg Moments - 4

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Old ideas can sometimes use for new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. 

- Steven Johnson 

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Hamburg Moments - 3

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“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”

-  William Shedd 






part of: image-in-ing

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Hamburg Moments - 2

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Scenic Weekends 

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Hamburg Moments - 1

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“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”

- Ralph Hattersley

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my North - Listen to the Music

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"Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World, and it will one day return there."

- Paulo Coelho

*If you've come as far as the Philharmonic, it's worth heading for the Philharmonic pavilion (Elbphilharmonie Pavilion, Hamburg - Harbor City), located at the Magellan Terraces, about half a kilometre from the growing glass wave. With three storeys of steel and glass, designed by the well-known local architect Andreas Heller, the pavilion functions as a sort of overture for the Philharmonic building. Here you can see a scale model of the main auditorium, a tenth of its actual size. Along the perimeter of the facade, twenty loudspeakers sprout like austere stone flowers. All you need to do is lend an ear to the future repertoire. The sensation is somewhat surreal; there are construction sites and building cranes all about, but you press your ear to a stone flower and listen to Tchaikovsky, for example, performed by the Latvian virtuoso Baiba Skride together with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

by Another Travelguide

part of: Scenic Weekends - My Sunday Photo 

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