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Fotoeins Friday: Bayreuth Opera House, 🇩🇪 UNESCO WHS

Bayreuth, Germany: inside the main hall of the Margravial Opera House (Markgräfliches Opernhaus) during guided tour. The building was inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012.

I made the image above on 9 Jun 2024 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and the following settings: 1/30-sec, f/2.8, ISO6400, and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wBK.

Fotoeins Friday: Stralsund, 🇩🇪 UNESCO WHS

The Alter Markt square in Stralsund is brilliantly illuminated in late-day sun with St. Nikolaikirche (St. Nicholas Church) and the Rathaus (City Hall) framing the scene at right. The greenish building at centre-left is the heritage-protected mid-18th century building Commandantenhus. Stralsund’s Old Town has been inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002.

I made the image above on 31 May 2024 with an iPhone15; the image is corrected for geometric distortion. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wIH.

Fotoeins Friday: Haithabu-Hedeby, 🇩🇪 UNESCO WHS

Just outside the city of Schleswig, Germany is the site of a former Viking settlement near the western end of the inlet Schlei. The sheltered harbour and a relatively short overland (portage) distance between the North and Baltic Seas made this an ideal location for settlement. The Viking sites Haithabu and Danevirke nearby have been inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018.

I made the image above on 30 May 2024 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and the following settings: , and 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wI3.

25T51 Potsdam: Sanssouci World Heritage Site

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Potsdam’s Sanssouci (“care free”) palace and park are very popular places for visitors in summer. However, a couple of days with severe thunderstorms and high winds in the past week forced the closure of the entire grounds, as announced earlier today on their website and as seen with signs on their locked gates. Downed branches and tree segments needed clearing. By mid-afternoon, some of the grounds opened to foot traffic, bicycles, and motor vehicles. It’s no surprise there were far fewer number of visitors observed on the grounds today.

In 1990, selected gardens and palaces in Potsdam including Sanssouci were inscribed by UNESCO as a single item onto their list of World Heritage Sites.

*Locked gate on the grounds’ southern perimeter in morning hours.*

*Orangerieschloss: 1851 to 1860/1864, by Stüler and Persius.*

Neue Kammern: 1748 by Knobelsdorff; first an
orangery, then guest palace.

*Hauptallee, facing west to Neues Palais.*

*From Hauptallee up to Sanssouci palace.*

*Weinbergterrasse (vineyard terrace), facing north to Sanssouci palace.*

*Weinbergterrasse (vineyard terrace), facing south to the Great Fountain.*

*On the terrace steps, up to the palace.*

*The final spots for Friedrich the Great (below) and his beloved dogs (above center).*

Grave for Friedrich the Great (1712-1786) who ruled as Prussia’s monarch from 1740 until his death. Yes, those are spuds on the plaque; legend has him responsible as the first to getting potatoes into German hands and bellies.

*The visual jewel that is the centre portion of Sanssouci Palace.*

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 27 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T78 Baden-Baden, UNESCO World Heritage Site

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In 2021, UNESCO recognized the cultural and historical significance of the great popularity of spa culture and spa towns in Europe from the 18th-century to the early 20th-century. Today, we have The Great Spa Towns of Europe, as 11 towns across 7 nations were inscribed as a single transnational World Heritage Site. Baden-Baden is one of the 11 towns, and is only 30 minutes from Karlsruhe by train.

*Baden-Baden is 1 of the 11 “Great Spa Towns of Europe*”.

*Steinbrunnen (stone fountain), 1871; in the Lichtentaler Allee green-space.*

*Staatliche Kunsthalle (State Art Gallery), completed in 1909. The present exhibition has the tagline: “What would the bottom of the ocean tell us tomorrow, if emptied of water today?”*

*Kurhaus (Spa House), completed in 1824.*

*Trinkhalle (Pump House), side entrance.*

*Stiftskirche Liebfrauen (Collegiate Church of Our Lady).*

*Left to right, respectively: Stiftskirche Liebfrauen (pink); Altes Dampfbad (Old Steam Baths, yellow); Friedrichsbad (Frederic’s Baths, beige-green).*

*Festquelle: water still flows through the tap from the hot springs. People used to collect water for home use; no longer encouraged because of high arsenic content (yikes).*

*At the far end of Rotenbachsee Park is a statue of Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, whose 1866 novel “The Gambler” is set in Baden-Baden. The 2004 statue is by artist Leonid Baranov.*

*Dostoevsky casts his gaze down towards Baden-Baden. He was not shy about gambling (and losing) in the city‘s casinos.*

*“The Great Spa Towns of Europe”, as a transnational serial nomination: 11 towns, 7 nations.*

I made all photos above with an iPhone15 on 24 Jul 2024. I received no support from an external organization. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.