#Pegnitz river

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Nuremberg, Germany - I believe this is the Pegnitz River which flows through the city.

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Sunset at the river Pegnitz

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Nuremberg was known as well for its effective governance. Like most imperial cities, it was ruled by a small elite, with a council dominated by several dozen patrician families whose main interest was maintaining social and economic stability. Strict controls were placed on every aspect of civic life. Sumptuary laws regulated the length of men’s jackets, the cut of women’s bodices, the types of cakes that could be served at weddings, and the number of candles that could be lit at funerals. A battalion of inspectors policed every aspect of economic life, from the baking of bread and the labeling of wine to the freshness of meat and the purchase of raw materials. In Nuremberg (in contrast to most other cities), pigs were not allowed to forage freely in the streets; once a day they could be driven to the Pegnitz River, which flowed through town, and their droppings had to be scooped up at once and thrown into its turgid waters. Inns had to close at sunset, and when the curfew bell rang two hours later, anyone found outdoors without a valid reason was detained.

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Traveling in Europe Germany

Nuremberg on the Pegnitz River A city in the state of Bavaria in Germany The state of Bavaria is located in southeastern Germany and borders Lichtenstein, Austria, and the Czech Republic. There are many wonderful cities to visit and many delightful things to see. Nuremberg is a city known for its medieval architecture, stone towers, and incredible castles. The Fleisch Bridge (“Meat Bridge”) or…

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Top 8 Places to visit in Germany

Introduction

Germany is a beautiful country for tourism. The Rhine Gorge, Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, and Hamburg are some of the most popular places to visit in Germany.

Germany is a beautiful country for tourism

• Germany is a beautiful country for tourism. • There are many tourist places in Germany to visit. • It's very safe for tourists to come here and enjoy their vacations, as there are no wars or terrorist attacks in the country. • There are many attractions that tourists can go see when they come here, such as museums, castles, and palaces.

Rhine Gorge

The Rhine Gorge is a canyon formed by the River Rhine. It is located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, between Bingen and Bonn. The Rhine Gorge forms part of one of Europe's largest UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rhineland-Pfalz/Saarland with its regionally abundant cultural heritage and natural richness. Remember that one can get into the country if they only have Germany Visitor Visa.

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and has a population of 3.35 million people. It's also the second most populous city in Germany, with a population density of 3,500 people per square kilometer. The first time I visited Berlin was when I was 13 years old, so it wasn't until recently that I got back there again as an adult and saw how much it had changed since my childhood memories.

Munich

Munich is the capital of Bavaria and one of the most important cities in Germany. With its rich cultural heritage, Munich is a city you should visit at least once in your life.The main tourist attractions include museums such as Deutsches Museum, Lenbachhaus and Alte Pinakothek; landmarks like Marienplatz Square and Hofbr�uhaus brewery; parks like Englischer Garten Park or Olympic Stadium Park; churches like Frauenkirche Cathedral or St Peter's Church (St Peterskirche). (Read More: Top 5 attractive things about Germany)

Frankfurt

Frankfurt is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany. It is known for its financial district, called Bankenviertel (Banking District), with many high-rise buildings such as Messeturm (Exhibition Tower), Westendstrae and Taunusanlage.

Hamburg

With 1.8 million residents, Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany. It is also one of the most important ports in Europe and has been dubbed "the gateway to Europe".

The city's history dates back to its founding as a small trading post by Vikings more than 1,000 years ago. Hamburg later became part of the Hanseatic League (Hansa), an alliance between trading cities that controlled trade along sea routes from Scandinavia to Central Europe. (Read More: The easiest ways to immigrate to Germany)

Nuremberg

In the Middle Franconia administrative region of the German state of Bavaria, Nuremberg is a city. It is situated along the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal and the Pegnitz River. Nuremberg was one of the great European cities of the Middle Ages because of its importance in trade and commerce as well as its being an imperial city (Kaiserpfalz).

Dresden

Dresden is the capital of Saxony and one of Germany's most popular tourist destinations. The city has a lot of history, with its Baroque architecture being famous around the world. It's also home to many museums and galleries, which makes it a great place for history buffs to visit.

Cologne/Bonn

Cologne is the fourth largest city in Germany, with a population of over 1 million people. Travel to Cologne, Germany to witness the beauty of the Rhine River, which runs through the city center and divides it into two parts: Rheinauhafen (right bank) and Innenstadt (left bank).

Conclusion

Germany is a beautiful country for tourism. It has many places to visit, from Rhine Gorge to Berlin and Munich. If you are planning a trip to Germany, then make sure that you visit these eight cities as well.

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Lionel Lindsay (1874 – 1961) - The Old Prison, Nuremburg, 1928, drypoint; Old barn, Dinkelsbühl, 1928, drypoint

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Heilig-Geist-Spital, Nuremberg (No. 1)

The Heilig-Geist-Spital (English: Holy Spirit Hospital) in Nuremberg was the largest hospital in the former Free Imperial City of Nuremberg. It was used as a hospital and nursing home.

Its chapel was also the depository of the Imperial Regalia, the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, between 1424 and 1796. The regalia, among them the Holy Lance, were shown to believers once a year in a so-called Heiltums-weisung (worship show) on the fourteenth day after Good Friday. For coronations they were brought to Frankfurt Cathedral.

The hospital was partly built over the Pegnitz river. It now serves as a restaurant and senior home.

Aerial view, with the hospital buildings extending along the Pegnitz river, and the Holy Ghost chapel to the left

The Heilig-Geist-Spital was built in 1339 by Konrad Gross to care for ill, elderly and poor people.

Source: Wikipedia

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Photography Of The Day - Nuremberg Marientormauer

Photography Of The Day – Nuremberg Marientormauer

I love this wee corner in Nuremberg. Nuremberg Marientormauer – Photo by Raffaello Palandri

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Nürnberg in Bayern (Bavaria), Southern Germany, is located on the river Pegnitz and on the Rhein-Main–Donau Canal in Franken (Franconia), 170 km from München. It’s the 2nd-largest city in Bavaria, pop.: ~520,000, making it Germany’s 14-largest city. The urban area also includes Fürth, Erlangen, and Schwabach, with a total population of 763,854. By 2016, the “European Metropolitan Area Nürnberg” had ~3.5 million inhabitants.

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Sunset at the river Pegnitz

ig: evadollhopf

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The best types of photos are the unexpected and unplanned ones 💛 . . . . . . #personal #photography #photographer #sunset #river #pegnitz #nuremberg #nürnberg #bavaria #bayern #germany #deutschland #nature #naturephotography #nofilter #city #moderncity #mirror #mirroreffect #amateurphotography #amateurphotographer #mine #sky #reflection #waterreflection #sonnenuntergang (at Nürnberg Centrum) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoR8xuNhHMi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1te86q7xt06op

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Storybook Nürnberg and the Pegnitz. Nürnberg, Germany, 2019. • #nürnberg #nuremberg #goldenhour #water #river #reflections #pegnitz #place • #germany #europe #deutschland #visitdeutschland #map_of_europe #ig_europe #europe_perfection #ig_discover_germany #thecreative #aroundtheworldpix #ig_masterpiece #theprettycities #flashesofdelight #travelog #wandering #alwaysexploring #travel #fujifeed #fujifilm_global #myfujifilm #fujixclub #fujiframez (at Nürnberg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdd1lurPXm/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Former Holy Spirit Hospital in Nuremberg

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#germany #europe #bavaria #nuremberg #nürnberg #pegnitz #river #oldtown #nature #naturephotography #photooftheday #photography #photographer #photo #historicalplace #historical (hier: Nuremberg)

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International Day of Action for Rivers

Take action on March 14, 2020, the 22nd annual International Day of Action for Rivers.

As of March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization has declared the coronavirus, Covid-19, a global pandemic. In order to keep our communities safe, International Rivers is advising canceling in-person events and switching to online/ at-home alternatives. Creative options include:

Launch a photo campaign. Ask your network or your group’s supporters to post photos of themselves by their favorite river, or a photo of them holding a sign about a river.

Organize a *remote* phone banking party! Ask your network or group’s supporters to makes calls to targeted public officials with your event’s call-to-action.

Have a personal prayer ceremony, ritual and any other grounding exercise that you feel called to do in honoring the rivers.

Have an at-home art party *by yourself or with your family* to celebrate the importance of rivers.

We thank you in advance for making creative, and health conscience, adjustments to your Day of Action for Rivers plans.

The International Day of Action for Rivers is a day dedicated to solidarity – when diverse communities around the world come together with one voice to say that our rivers matter. That communities having access to clean and flowing water matters. That everyone should have a say in decisions that affect their water and their lives. That it’s our time to stand up for these rights, now more than ever.

This year’s Day of Action for Rivers theme focuses on Women, Water, and Climate Change. Last year, 100 women from 32 countries who are leading efforts to protect and defend rivers gathered at the first Women and Rivers Congress with this message:

“In this time of climate crisis, floods and droughts, and growing water scarcity, protecting rivers and people is ever more urgent. We honor the women who have given their lives in the struggle to save our rivers for all who depend on them. We stand on the shoulders of women who have long been leaders in this movement. We join hands with local and indigenous communities who continue to face enormous peril in safeguarding their water and territories.

We commit to continuing our fight to protect free-flowing rivers and the lands, forests and territories they sustain, to ensure women’s leadership in decision-making at all levels over freshwater resources, and to strengthen and build alliances and grow our movement – for the future of ourselves as women, our families and communities, our rivers and our planet.”

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Alternate History scenarios I want to see

I’m tired of the same two scenarios, the South wins the Civil War, Nazis win World War II.  There’s no more blood to be pulled from those stones, they’re completely dry, completely played up.  At best they’re just generic, at worst they’re conservative wish fulfillment.  ¡No mas!  For the love of God, just give us some scenarios we haven’t seen before, some scenarios that postulate a better world instead of a worse one.

If you have to do the Civil War, let Lincoln survive, let him oversee Reconstruction.  Let the South remain under military occupation, get rid of the Compromise of 1877, get rid of Jim Crow laws, enforce the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.  The Civil Rights movement would have occurred fifty or sixty years earlier.

What if Archduke Franz Ferdinand was never assassinated?  Tensions were boiling over in the Balkans, something was bound to happen eventually, his death was just the final straw; if he survived though, the resulting war wouldn’t be nearly as catastrophic, instead being tantamount to a Third Balkan War between Austria and Serbia.  Germany and Russia and France probably wouldn’t even get involved, it would be contained to the peninsula and be over by Christmas 1914.  The resulting post-war world would be so different from our own it would be near impossible to imagine; no carving up the Middle East, no rise of authoritarianism in Russia and Italy and Germany and China, no Holocaust, no Cold War, no baby boom, etc.

1939, Albert Einstein never signs the Szilard Letter to President Roosevelt, so the Manhattan project never gets off the ground.  The Nazis were not developing atom bombs, the American nuclear program was predicated on a lie (as most of our foreign policy decisions are).  If we never develop the bomb, there’s no arms race, no Cold War, no crimes against humanity by the US against Japan, no looming threat of nuclear war at all times.  Maybe the Soviets would have developed the bomb eventually, but the US wouldn’t be the first, and we wouldn’t be as aggressive over out stockpile as we were through the 20th century.

The arrest and trial of Adolf Hitler; what if the Western Front had reached Berlin before the East?  What if we’d been able to capture him alive and try him at Nuremberg with the rest of the Reich?  He doesn’t get the satisfaction of a quick ending, his crimes are aired to the world, his few remaining supporters finally see him as a man instead of a god.  He’d be hanged, cremated, and disposed of in the Pegnitz River.  The Western allies would have been in a stronger position and could probably have maintained control of a united Germany rather than letting the East fall under Russia’s sphere of influence.  That’d be a scenario in and of itself; what if Germany was never divided?  No Berlin Wall, a smaller Iron Curtain, no far-right parties in the Bundestag, etc.

Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for trying to assassinate Major General Edwin Walker in April 1963. He never assassinates John F. Kennedy, who wins re-election in 1964.  He passes the Civil Rights Act (though it might be harder in this timeline because he’s a northerner; Johnson was able to pass it because he convinced his fellow southerners to stop filibustering it), he oversees and deescalates Vietnam, eases relations with the Soviet Union and China, advancing geopolitics by five or even ten years.

The impeachment of Richard Nixon; he resigned because he had lost all support, even from his own party (something that would never happen today).  If he had tried to fight the charges instead, he would have been removed from office and subsequently tried in criminal court.  Gerald Ford was chosen as Vice President in part because he was seen as an honest politician at the time, in comparison to the outgoing Agnew who was embroiled in his own scandal; when Ford pardoned Nixon, his credibility tanked.  If Nixon was found guilty by Congress, I don’t think Ford would have pardoned him (well, he probably still would have because Republicans are the party of corruption, but a man can dream, can’t he?)  This would have finally set the concrete precedent that the president is not above the law, that they can and will face consequences for their actions.

The assassination of Ronald Reagan; what if John Hinckley Jr. had succeeded in killing Reagan in March 1981?  Full offense to any and all conservative pieces of shit reading this, but the world would be an infinitely better place.  No Reagan means no Iran-Contra Affair and no Reaganomics (no trickle down), which means no tax cuts for the super-wealthy and no trillion dollar monopolies.  There would still be a middle class, we’d have higher wages and more benefits, we’d have universal healthcare like every single other developed nation on the planet!  In 1980, George H.W. Bush called Reagan’s policies “voodoo economics” because he knew they wouldn’t work; he only got on board after he started cashing his checks.  If he became president in ‘81 rather than ‘89, he wouldn’t have continued those policies (he was more concerned with the foreign than the domestic agenda).  No Reagan means no AIDS crisis, or at least a substantially reduced one.  No Reagan means no Mujahideen in Afghanistan, so no Taliban, no al-Qaeda, no 9/11, no endless War on Terror in the Middle East, no PATRIOT Act, no Orwellian police state.  THIS is the biggest change I can imagine in the last 50 years.

What if Glasnost and Perestroika has succeeded in the Soviet Union?  What if the USSR had democratized under Gorbachev’s reforms?  The Russia that came out of the collapse was corrupt to the core trying to fill the sudden power vacuum, which is how Putin rose to the top.  If Gorbachev’s reforms had succeeded, if the Soviet Union had modernized, if a true multi-party democracy had been established, the world would be a better place.  The Iron Curtain would still have fallen because Gorbachev got rid of the Brezhnev Doctrine, meaning Eastern Europe would be free of Soviet influence sooner, the Caucuses and Central Asian republics would have more say in how the country was run, and authoritarianism would be on the decline in Russia.

Al Gore wins the 2000 election; if he had become president, we would never have gone to war with Iraq.  Hell, we may even have avoided war with Afghanistan; the Taliban claimed they were willing to extradite Osama bin Laden if we could prove his involvement in 9/11, and I think Gore would have taken them up on the offer.  Now there’s no saying they actually would have followed through with it, but it’s always better to try diplomacy first.  Even if we DID end up going to war with Afghanistan, it would be shorter and less deadly; fewer civilian casualties, an actual exit strategy, and no power vacuum because we’d never topple their government just to secure oil and military contracts.  No Iraq War means no Syrian Civil War, which means no ISIS.

If you’re going through the trouble of researching and writing an alternate history scenario, why one Earth would you would you just fart out the same story we’ve heard a million times before?  Give us some obscure changes, something small, something niche that would have a domino effect on World History.  Like, what if Austria had won the Austro-Prussian war, and the German Empire didn’t exist?  What if the Norman conquest had been repelled by the Celts?  What if Margaret Thatcher slipped on wet concrete and bashed her head in on the way to Number 10?  There are so many better possibilities to write about than Confederates and Nazis!