Bad Cannstatt, the largest city district of Stuttgart. We took advantage of the (somewhat) nicer weather and went for a walk in the old part of Bad Cannstatt.
The second picture represents the oldest residential building in Stuttgart, it was built in 1463. That’s old.
Today and tomorrow we will have probably some of the last nice and warm days this autumn, weather has been not so nice lately. So I took a bike trip around the countryside around my town:
Stuttgart21 is a zoning project which has as purpose the complete redesign of the main train station in Stuttgart, Germany. As part of the project, the station will be transformed from a terminus station to a pass-through station and all of it will be moved underground, below the current station. A total of 57km of new track will be laid, out of which 30km as high-speed track (designed for speeds of minimum 200km/h and up to 350km/h). Since the city of Stuttgart sits in a valley and it’s surrounded by hills, a total of 16 tunnels (around 33km) and 18 bridges will have to be built as well. Parts of the the old (and recently renovated) main station building are also to be demolished, even though they fall under the law which protects old buildings.
The project will be funded by the Deutsche Bahn, the Baden Württemberg state and the federal government and it will transform the whole Stuttgart area and mainly the city center in a construction site for years and years. The initial costs were 2.6 billions Euros and now they are up to 4 billion Euros.
Needless to say, there is a huge opposition for this whole project for years now. Despite all the opposition, the project went ahead and recently work started at the land clearing, demolishing and tree cutting near the main station building. That is when the people started to get out in the streets and there have been a lot of demonstrations, people tried to stop the demolition crews, many of them tying themselves to the trees about to be cut and so on. Yesterday night things got rather violent and the riot police intervened against a legal demonstration with water guns, tear gas and pepper spray. Many people got hurt, among which a lot of young kids who were also taking part of a legal demonstration.
People are now in uproar and supportive demonstrations are taking place in many German cities and not only. A new bigger demonstration was planned for tonight and since Stuttgart is Freya’s hometown, she is not amused about the whole issue (that is a rather huge understatement). I am also not indifferent at all towards the whole issue, so we drove to Stuttgart and took part in the demonstration. Depending of the source, there were between 50.000 and 100.000 people present, the sight of so many people in one place was overwhelming. The demonstration was peaceful this time and at least until we left, nothing happened.
Yes, I made pictures too but they don’t do justice to what happened there:
Tags: demonstration, deutsche bahn, force, germany, Pictures, police, stuttgart, stuttgart21, train, zoning
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October 1, 2010 11:37 pm | 
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It seems that summer finally came to our part of the world too. Last weekend we had really nice weather, although a bit on the hot side. So in the late afternoon on sunday we went to the nearby small town of Adelberg where not far from it, there is a lake in the middle of a rather thick forest.
There is a path going all around the lake, it took us almost 2 hours to walk it but I would say it was well worth it:
Tags: adelberg, forest, germany, green, lake, nature, stausee, sunset, water
Daily stuff, Pictures | Stefan | June 29, 2010 2:16 am | Comments (4)
Last week I went on a short trip to the Tegernsee lake which is south of Munich. The lake is somewhat big and the whole region looks very nice. It has a couple of small villages around it and everything looks very pretty and clean. I took some pictures, of course (each images takes you to its dArt page where you can click for a bigger view):
Things are not very cheap around there but I guess that was to be expected.
Just things that happened recently, in no particular order.
- Last weekend it was really nice and warm outside, almost like a summer day. So we went to the nearby town of Waiblingen to walk a bit around. Waiblingen is the also the main city of the Kreis we live in and it has a nice historical city center. Yep, I made pictures too :)
- Next week is a really short one, thursday we have some sort of national holiday in Baden Württemberg and I took friday off so we have a long weekend. We decided we will go to Prague and spend two days there. None of us saw the city so far. I hope the weather will be nice.
- Last week I saw surfers in Munich:
And yet another post which was sitting in my Drafts folder :)
Some 3 weeks ago I took a small trip to Düsseldorf so I can visit the Rheinturm , a 240m tall telecommunication tower, the tallest building in the city. At a height of 170m there is a revolving restaurant and an observation desk from where you can have a very nice view of the city. There was a beautiful sunny day outside so I took some pictures from the tower itself and also from the nearby area.
Yes, spring is finally here it seems. Some pictures I took in Rheinpark while I was in Köln 2 weeks ago.
