Germany 2001
Düsseldorf
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The St. Lambertus Church and it's uniquely twisted spire and the Schlossturm, a tower that remains from earlier more extensive fortifications |
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The Johannes Church, one the churches I would have to go to, when in my teens |
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If I remember correctly, this is a monument for Kaiser Wilhelm |
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The Stadtgraben, the remainder of the city's moat |
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The Stadtgraben runs along Düsseldorf's most prestigious street, the Königsallee (Kö, for short), the King's Boulevard |
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Next stop, the Altstadt, the old city cernter, where the city hall is located |
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Not far from the city center there is this plaque which commemoralizes the date when the Count Adolf von Berg changed the status of the Village on the Düssel to city. A very big deal. The date was 1288 AD |
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The Rhine River shore, which when I lived there, had cranes unloading river barges where you see the unbrellas |
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And where you see trees and grass, there was a busy four lane roadway |
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Which, at enormous expense, has been relegated to an underground road system that runs for much of the river front you see here, giving people easy walking access to the river front, cruise boats, large and small, and the ferry. Merchant traffic has been shunted to a new and expanded commercial harbor, south of the city. |
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For leisurely travel between Cologne and Düsseldorf, go by ship. This line has been in place for maybe a century |
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Here the ferry takes people to the other shore where several times a year either a circus, large carneval, or other events take place. Easier than to negotiate traffic and the bridge, after coming from the beer tents. |
