Heidleberg, Germany - Castle Pics (Again very pic heavy)

tungsten said:
And I guess the next thing these powertripping totalitarian fucks don't want me to do is eat a steak, lift weights or learn to defend myself because - oh my god! - I could become able to stand my ground and defend my constitutional rights by myself.

They are raping the GG and the people they represent. The people whose freedoms they committed to defend.

Sorry for the rant, and sorry for the OT. :o
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Tungsten - cool that your are situated in Heidleberg. It probably sucks having to see pics of your own backyard and a tourist's point of view messing things up.

Let me just say as a visitor that I loved your country and town. I could see myself emigrating there in a minute and am actually thinking about applying for a position I was given the heads up on.
 
I was going to ask about the wine barrel too. I lived there for a few months in 1986, and my main hangout was Doctor Flotte. I didn't go back until 2006 and the town had changed as has a lot of Germany since reunification. Some of the places that I thought were pretty nice back then, like Leimen, looked a little grubby. The little town where I lived, Gaiberg, was just becoming a "suburb" back the. It is like 3 times as big now. Heidelberg doesn't have the huge number of Americans and Brits that it did during the cold war and it has a much larger Arab population. Still a cool town. The towns up the Neckar are still pretty badass and there are some serious looking castles perched up on the hills as you go upstream.
 
wow...:eek: those are some amazing pics.... :thumbup: i really need to get to europe one of these days...:o

i just spoke to a friend of mine, and he and his wife are going there for 10 days in april.. he is entering in an archery tournament over there....:D
 
DocArnie said:
Zum Güldenen Schaf
It's an old term for "Zum goldenen Schaf" (to the golden sheep)


Nice pics! Maybe I should pay Heidelberg a visit when I drive south again.
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Thanks Doc! I'm pretty sure I know the place! It's on a side street off of the Hauptstrasse- off of a little square/plaza w/ a fountain. I used to work about a block away.:thumbup: If it's indeed the place I'm thinking of- good food & decent prices.
 
DocArnie said:
You can still find this fraternity tradition in about every german city that has a university. At my university several fraternities are doing it. The ritual is called "Mensur". It's basically fencing with sharp sabers and only eye-protection.
Nope, I'm not in a fraternity and I'm not planing to join one. :D
For many of these guys it's a family tradition. Sons join their fathers frat. Luckily, my family has no such tradition.


As a side note: These frats tried a revolution (like the french revolution) in 1848 which was stopped by the king with some promises, which he didn't keep in the end. But our current german flag (black-red-gold) comes from these fraternities and it stood for freedom, equality, democracy and - you won't believe it - it also stood for free gun ownership. It's rather interesting that free gun ownership was totally normal until the end of WWI when the emperor was kicked out. That's when socialism(=fascism) became more and more popular... you know the rest. First national-socialism, then socialism in east-germany and now the same party that gave the order to shoot innocent people in the back at the berlin wall are becoming more and more popular again and guess what, they don't want me to own guns and they don't want me to carry any knives at all... -->my cold dead hands... :jerkit:
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Excellent post-
BTW a good friend of mine from the USA (He got me my 1st job in Germany) was the first American to join Burschenschaft Allemania http://www.allemannia.de/ & went on to be the Fechtwart (head of the Mensur {fencing} program). I had the chance to hang out w/ them a good bit, put on the protective gear & whang away at the pole w/ bits of old tire nailed to it. Good fun. Not many yanks get the chance to see that world. Some of the "Verbindungen" have a bad rap as being pretty right-wing & elitist- but the Allemanen were, for example the ONLY such organization present in a protest over the firebombing in Molln by neonazis in 1992 that killed 3 people. They were in full dress uniform and joined in the human chain that formed as a silent protest in the Hauptstrasse. Wow. Thread drift like crazy... sorry...
BTW Doctor Flotte was one of my locals as well. I understand it's under new management. Does anyone know/remember Gringo's or Gators?
 
Don't worry, the socialists don't have any saying in the south. It's mainly phenomenon of the eastern states. But dangerous enough for me to be alarmed. Some people don't learn from history.
 
Thanks for the pics of the castle. I've been in Heidelberg this summer for one day, but didn't have the time/was too lazy to visit the castle itself. Now I know how it looks like from close by. :)

But I did visit the Hard Rock cafe, because that night, it was only 4€ for any cocktail. It took a very long time to get the drinks you ordered there. Afterwards I visited other cafes too of course.

Heidelberg is probably the nicest and most pleasant city I've visited in Germany so far, certainly when speaking of night-life.
 
kgd said:
Tungsten - cool that your are situated in Heidleberg. It probably sucks having to see pics of your own backyard and a tourist's point of view messing things up.

Let me just say as a visitor that I loved your country and town. I could see myself emigrating there in a minute and am actually thinking about applying for a position I was given the heads up on.
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It doesn't suck at all, I'm actually amazed to read about my little hometown on a big international message board - when you got dragged around in old castles, fortifications and monasteries as a kid, you forget how amazing it is to have something like the Heidelberg castle towering over your home.

I'm glad you liked your time here and I hope you have the chance to return, there's so much to see around here. The Philisophenweg, Ladenburg (grave of Carl Benz, lots of historic sites), the creepy Thingstätte on the Heiligenberg, Schwetzingen (summer residence of the elector palatine), etc.

And aside from the castle: We're the birthplace of Capri Sun too. :D
 
Americans live in a vast&varied country, but don't forget that we too in Europe have some vast differences and some astonishing old cities. Welcome over!

Excellent pix of Heidelberg, now go to Tubingen for some more old school charm.

One day I'd like to take 4 months driving from here (Scandinavia) through the Baltic, Germany, France to Spain and end in Cadiz looking at Africa.
 
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