Bored in Bremen

[pappnase]

OK Another weekend another letter. Today we get E for "Elefant".

Der Elefant is an anti-colonial monument near the railway station and the big arena in the town center.
Orginally built in the 1930's as a memorial in favour of the colonial movement, it was rededicated as an anti-colonial monument in 1989.

The figurative representation of the elephant is 10 meters high and made from clinker-brick.

To be honest I don't know a lot more about it and today for once I'm not so "bored" as I am getting ready for a work trip, but E was always going to be about the elephant, so here is a picture.

[Fraufruit]

Very cool! Thanks again, Papp!

[Franklan]

OK Another weekend another letter. Today we get E for "Elefant".

A nice documentation about this monument is here (Auto translation in English is possible):



This version on Youtube has some sound problems, here is a better version (But without possibility for auto translation):
https://www.radiobremen.de/videos/jan-b ... n-102.html

[pappnase]

OK It's F this week I guess then. Today I want to talk to you about the drop tower (Fallturm).

Fallturm Bremen is a drop tower at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen in Bremen. It was built between 1988 and 1990, and includes a 122-metre-high drop tube (actual drop distance is 110 m), in which for 4.74 seconds (with release of the drop capsule), or for over 9 seconds (with the use of a catapult, installed in 2004) weightlessness can be produced. The entire tower, formed out of a reinforced concrete shank, is 146 metres high.

In 2021, German and French scientists at the drop tube managed to produce and record the lowest temperature ever measured. Using quantum gas, they managed to achieve 38 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.

All of that is very nice, but what makes it special for me is that it was a landmark on the morning walk that me and the wife used to take every day before I started work.

Anyway, I'm not going to post much more about it because it's getting late, but I'm still going to keep going and try to update every week until we get to Z.

[pappnase]

This weekend, we are going back to Böttcherstraße, but this time to a specific building in the street.

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The Glockenspiel House is a house in the street with 30 bells of Meissen porcelain which chime 3 times per day.

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As the bells ring, wooden panels depicting pioneering seafarers and aviators appear on a rotating mechanism inside the tower.

I've included some of the panels below, but if you want to see them all then go take a look at the wiki page.

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It's a lovely place to stand, I like to go in the winter when there are a lot less tourists.