Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Dragon Castel

Dragon Castel



History
Stephan Sarter was the youngest son of an in keeper Bonner 1833rd After an apprenticeship and numerous trips abroad, he came as a punter to great wealth, including the financing of the Suez Canal. 1881 George, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Sarter raised to the peerage. In 1882 Baron Stephan von Sarter laid the foundation stone of a representative resident Castle Dragon Castle, a mix of villa, castle. 







The Düsseldorf architects Leo von Abbema and Bernhard Tüshaus made the first plans submitted to the Paris-based architect William Hoffman, a student of the Cologne cathedral architect Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, revised. The historicist architecture and beautiful interior of the palace were already among contemporaries many admirers. Sarter lived in his castle never. His adopted home was Paris, where the bachelor, died in 1902 without having settled his estate.

Jakob Biesenbach, a nephew Sarter, bought the castle in their territory


1923 - Social responsibility of a manufacturer.



Flohr Hermann, who had lived for several years as a tenant, the castle auctioned in 1921 and 1923 the castle courtyard Castle Dragon Castle. The Cologne merchant and manufacturer provided several block houses the Women's Association of the German Red Cross as a convalescent home for disposal. The socially engaged Flohr regulated still alive and his estate decided to leave the property over to a Catholic order. 1930, he auctioned the interior, in relation to the Christian School Brothers Castle.



1942 - Destruction of World War II



A Nazi elite school, the Adolf Hitler School (AHS 3) related, 1942 Castle Dragon Castle. The most sustainable structural changes of this period is the destruction of the original main entrance. Instead of the elegant double-barreled staircase that led to a gabled portico, the entrance by a broad stairway was monumentalized. The park learned from landfills for the erection of guns great changes.


Finally, the castle came under attack. Almost all the stained glass was made at the break, and the art facility was badly damaged. Wind and rain were freely at the side of the Rhine river, allowing moisture to get into the masonry.

At the end of the war, American troops occupied the castle, later it was used as refugee housing. While the interior has been badly affected: the carved wood paneling were used as firewood, large portions of the mural in the stairwell, Nibelung and dining room were stolen entirely or in part.


 

1971 - fall and a new beginning, the era of spinach



The next 10 years, from 1960-1970, was empty castle and dragon castle fell into disrepair. A planned demolition in 1963 could be prevented, but only in 1971 acquired the property a private citizen. Paul spinach was the ensemble again repaired and re-equip.



Young artists, provided a free reconstruction of the missing paintings. 1973 Spinach Castle Dragon Castle to the general public made available.Resided until his death in 1989, the eccentric Lord of the Manor, to entwine the numerous stories on Dragon Castle or in the courtyard.



1986 - Heritage Restoration


1986 Castle Dragon Castle was declared a historical monument. The much-needed steps towards a comprehensive restoration initiated in 1989, the North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation conservation, heritage and culture care. Since 1995, the NRW-Stiftung be in close cooperation with the City of Winter King, the ensemble Castle Dragon Castle carefully restored.



Since April 2003, informed the Special Exhibition "opened for renovation - Insights into the construction site of Castle Dragon Castle" in detail about the restoration work. Since spring 2010, the rehabilitation work in the castle and all restored and finished remöblierten rooms available again for the visitors.



Kneip Room


The pub room or parlor served as a social drinking saloon - more precisely than the parlor. Here the male society gathered for the official events in an intimate atmosphere to confidential conversations and trinkseligem together.

 

The painter Hermann Schneider (1847-1918), a disciple of the historical painter Carl Theodor von Piloty from London, created in the Kneip Room, the large format and also lively paintings. The wall forms the north form the "Childhood of Bacchus" from, to the east and west, "the love of Bacchus to Ariadne auf Naxos" and in the south the "Triumph of Bacchus".





Opening times

 

Every day from Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 bis 18:00 clock.
In the school holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia also open on Monday. 

Public Tours
Public tours are held hourly.
The first tour starts at 12.00 clock, the last at 17.00 clock.


 

How to get to Königswinter



By car
A 3 exit Siebengebirge direction Königswinter
A 59 / B 42 exit Königswinter

                  

Way to the castle




Walk

From the valley station of the Drachenfels Railway runs the so-called Donkey Trail, past the Nibelungen Hall and the front building, up to the castle gate. For a leisurely ascent will take about 30 minutes.


With the Drachenfelsbahn

You have the option to drive to the historic cogwheel train to the Castle Gate (Central Station).



With the light rail

Line 66 (Siegburg / Bonn-Bad Honnef)
Stops Königswinter / Clemens-August-Straße
Königswinter / Ferry



                              North Side view of Castel.

                           View from Behinde of Castel


                                   Interiors of Dragon Castel..


          View from Front side of Dragon Castel (North Tower)


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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum Dusseldrof

Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum Dusseldrof

Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum - Research and Collection
Löbbecke collection




Collection of an estimated 250,000 species with the focus on marine.
It contains parts of other historical collections: the collection of the Geh. Regierungsrat Dr. Carl Emil Lischke, Elberfeld, parts of the collection of Consul Erich Christian Ludwig Gruner from  Bremen, of Voorhoeve-Scheepmaker from Rotterdam, of H. C. Roeters van Lennep from Twello near Deventer, of Dr. C. Dalen, Rotterdam, as well as the collection of molluscs compiled in the second half of the 18th century by Peter Wilhelm Ludwig Döring, Bochum, including the respective hand-painted catalogue made by the physician and natural scientist Dr. Carl Arnold Kortum, Bochum. P. W. L. Döring was Löbbecke’s grandfather on his mother’s side.
Upon acquisition of the Löbbecke collection by the city of Düsseldorf it remained in storage for several decades, but also survived both wars without damages worth mentioning. After World War II, the collection of Dr. Otto Gaschott, Munich, was bought, and in recent years the collection of Prof. Thiele, Cologne, and parts of the collection of Rolf A. M. Brandt, Bangkok.





History.

In the beginning of the Eighties, dedicated Düsseldorf citizens decided to commit themselves to a new building for the Löbbecke-Museum + Aquazoo in Düsseldorfs Nordpark. They founded a society of friends whose active work was crowned with success when the new building was opened in 1987.
In 1992, the Society of Friends merged with the Gesellschaft der Freunde des Zoologischen Gartens in Düsseldorf e. V. (Society of Friends of the Zoological Garden) and since then has supported the advancement of general zoological objectives in Düsseldorf. The institute now counts more than 2,000 members, making it the most important society for the advancement of natural science issues in Düsseldorf.
The Society of Friends exclusively pursues non-profit-making objectives. Its purpose is the idealistic and materialistic advancement of the Aquazoo as well as the advancement of zoological science, natural science education and the encounter of man and animal.





Subjects of the display rooms A to Z


§         Room A: Adaptation of higher developed vertebrates to life in water
§         Room B: Life clock of earth history - The blue planet
§         Room C: From the protozoa to the mammals
§         Room D: The conquest of habitats in the sea
§         Room E: Habitat coral reef
§         Room F: Structures and behavior patterns for finding food
§         Room G: Anatomy and search for food
§         Room H: Freshwater ecosystems
§         Room J: Multiple sources of nutrition
§         Room K: Anatomy and habitat
§         Room L: Spatial and shoal behaviour in fishes
§         Room M: Indigenous and foreign inhabitants of our waters
§         Room N: Tropical coasts
§         Room O: The largest of all animal phyla: arthropods /insects
§         Room P: The Löbbecke collection: mussels, snails, cephalopods
§         Room Q: History of life
§         Room R: Temporary exhibitions
§         Room S: Tropical hall
§         Room T: Tropical habitats
§         Room U: The amphibians
§         Room V: The reptils
§         Room W: Desert habitats
§         Room X: Camouflage and warning signals
§         Room Y: Desert communities
§         Room Z: The stuff that made creation possible – mineralogy





Eggshell collection

Approx. 8,500 reference samples, partly from historical collections owned by Löbbecke, from the collection of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Düsseldorf as well as the collection Ghilain. The collection rests.




Plant collection, herbariums

Historic collection with 215 volumes and collection boxes.




Trophies skulls skeletons collection

Containing, amongst others, the estate of the animal sculptor Josef Pallenberg. Own taxidermy works are continuously added.





Artistic estate of the animal sculptor Josef Pallenberg

Drawings, sketchbooks, photos, Pallenberg archive. The collection is supplemented continuously. His animal plastics are loans by the family and are presently for the most part stored at the Naturkundliches Heimatmuseum Benrath (regional natural history museum).





Entomological collection

Insect collection with more than 650,000 specimens
·        Collection of palearctic beetles
·        Collection of exotic beetles
·        State collection of Rhenish-Westphalian butterflies
·        Collection of palearctic butterflies
·        Collection of exotic butterflies
Wet collection of spiders Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum - Insectarium Insectarium at the Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum
Insects, together with crabs, spiders and centipedes, are of the arthropod phylum. It is the largest of all animal phyla and comprises more than three quarters of all animal species known today. Within this phylum, insects with about a million described species are by far the largest class.






Insects live and as tangible experience

The Insectarium stages events where visitors get in close contact with insects, spiders and other arthropods.





Butterfly fauna in Düsseldorf since 1900

A checklist shows all 27 butterfly species still existing in Düsseldorf today and informs on the decrease in species since 1900.




Keeping and breeding of insects

Insects and other arthropods have been successfully re-bred more than 25 years; about 30 different live species are exhibited continuously. Information and instructions for keeping the animals are provided.




Entomological collections

Entomological collections, i.e. collections on insects, are scientifically revised, supplemented, maintained and digitally edited.

View of Gentoo Penguin colony at the Aquazoo Düsseldorf
Gentoo Penguins (Pygoscelis papua) have been kept in an “indoor” enclosure at the Aquazoo Düsseldorf since 1987 and breed regulary with success. In their “home”, which has to be cooled down to +10° C throughout the year, these sub-Antarctic birds feel comfortable and breed every year






Löbbecke archive

With comprehensive stocks on the history of the Löbbecke family and the collectors associated with Theodor Löbbecke, the Löbbecke-Museum, the Zoological Garden Düsseldorf and the Aquazoo. The collection is supplemented continuously.





 
...around 60 members of staff are in charge of animal care, technical equipment, life support systems, organization and supervision of the exhibition, administration etc.




...800,000 liters of water flow through the pipes every hour, get filtered, cooled or heated until they reach their destination.





...apart from professional animal care by keepers, biologists and veterinarians, there also has to be a technical infrastructure including craftsmen, technicians, taxidermists and others.




...animal food has to be carefully prepared or also grown. Around 1850 crates of vegetables, fruit and herbs are fed per year, most of them from organic farms. To this are added approx. 600 square metres homegrown wheat. Frost food has to be stored. Our animals need approx. 6 tons of fish per year and around 800 kilogram of crabs, mussels etc. We also have to breed the most diversified animals to be used as food.





...the tropical hall has an air temperature of 25° C with 80-100% humidity. Apart from many plants and animals, there is a tropical stream carrying 80,000 litres of water that is filtered once every hour. Several times a day we create rain from specially processed water.





...water and air in the penguin compound are constantly filtered, cleaned and cooled for the animals, who prefer a cold climate. A well-engineered lighting system simulates the seasons with long or short days, with sunrise and full daylight.





How To Reach

Public Transport.


By tram

Stop Nordpark/Aquazoo
U78 and U79

By car
From Duisburg: B8
From Essen: A44 or A52
From Köln/Wuppertal: A3/A46/B1
From Köln/Krefeld/Neuss: A57/A52/B7

On motorways follow the signs to Messe/LTU-Arena and in the city the signs to Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum











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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Portrait

Hello Readers,
This was my first attempt to shoot the portrait. A wonderful experience that I would like to share with you in the form of my images. I would like to request, to all my readers to put there expert comments and suggestions below the post to improve.

   

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.



Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.


The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.



When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn,willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.




Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth.



The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.




It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.



Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.




To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.





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