Berlin Festival of Lights 16 - Spandau Citadel by billcody

Photography • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Dec 04, 2010

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Location: Berlin - Spandau; Citadel Hi friends, this is the citadel of Spandau, the biggest winter quarter for bats in Middle Europe - more then 50 000 bats are sleeping in its dungeons and cellars in just this moment (we have 20 centimeter snow and at night -15° Celsius, it is bitter cold...) The citadel is more than 450 years old, the old castle inside nearly 800 years and the small village of Spandau more than 900 years, older as Berlin, maybe m u c h older. The place was important in medieval times: The medieval highway from The Netherlands to Poland crossed here the Havel, a small river, now part of Berlin. (The location is 15 kilometers away from the Berlin Center) In 1134 the whole region became under the name "Nordmark" part of the german emperors reich, reigned by Albrecht of Ballenstedt, called "Albrecht the Bear". The inhabitants here were mostly not germans, they were members of slavish tribes as the inhabitants of Spandau, a very small fishermen`s village nearr the Havel-ford. Albrecht guided german settlers in his new territory, and here near the ford they founded a castle - the later citadel (to be continued) Friends, hope you like this pic and you like the story. This pic is a little bit bigger than tzhe others, so jump in! Thanks for your interest and your comments, and have a nice weekend! Bye, billcody

Comments (12)

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MagikUnicorn

10:38AM | Sat, 04 December 2010

WOWWW BIG WOWWW

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Mondwin

10:48AM | Sat, 04 December 2010

Sieht wircklich zauberhaft aus!!!!Bravissimo!V:DDD.Gruß Whylma-Frohe Weihnachten!!!!

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Vialliy

12:20PM | Sat, 04 December 2010

The reflection is almost as large as the original. Well captured!

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bmac62

1:06PM | Sat, 04 December 2010

Beautiful nightime photo. Recall reading of Rudolf Hess being a reluctant resident here for years...'till 1987 I think.

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billcody

2:48PM | Sat, 04 December 2010

@bmac62: Thanks for your nice comment - but you`re wrong. Rudolf Hess sat in a Spandau jailhouse together with 2 others, but this was not here. It was another jail, about one mile away. When Hess died - he was the last of them - the Allied forces teared down the jailhouse. It should not be a place of myths and legends and not a place where old and new nazis shouting "Heil" and spent roses... The place of the Nazi war criminals is today mostly forgotten.

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