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Walking through the restored medieval city walls is like entering the old town of Goslar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At first, Yunluo didn't understand why this place was a witch's town, and such a small town with exquisite houses had such a strange name. According to the locals, until the beginning of the Middle Ages, women were greatly respected in the Germanic cultural area, especially those who made medicines, practiced medicine, and could read and write.

However, the development of Christianity in Germany brought about profound changes, and the missionaries believed that too much respect for women was inconsistent with Christian doctrine and that women should be absolutely subordinate to men. As a result, society began to devalue women, and as a result, the image of witches who vilified women was born, and women who were regarded as witches were also persecuted and even burned alive.

In the small commercial street in the center of the city, there are already many small doll pendants related to witches.

Goslar was built intensively in the fortified castle, and the fountain made of bronze bowls on the market square can be traced back to the imperial era, and the overall layout of the city formed in the 15th and 16th centuries has been preserved to this day.

The clumsy golden eagle symbol in the square symbolizes Goslar as a free imperial city, but the logo itself is an imitation, and the authentic medieval original is preserved in the museum of the Emperor's Palace.

Four times a day all the eyes and flashes are aimed at the red house on the east side of the market, the roof gable of the Treasury building, where three small doors open and a group of figures circulate there, and the carillon plays to mimic the sounds of mining, and this carillon show tells the story of Rammelsberg's mining history.

Sitting on the side of the road and drinking coffee, you will find that Goslar has a whole area of extremely beautiful houses, at first Yunluo thought that the black stencil was for decoration, but later learned that it was called a wooden barbed wall.

The construction technique of the wood-reinforced house began in Europe in the Middle Ages, and it is characterized by the fact that the beams and columns are all made of wood. The space between wood and wood is filled with different materials at any time, and there are not many houses with this architectural style in Europe at present.

There are always strange sculptures on the streets, but I can't explain what they are. The wood-walled house on the left, pictured on the right, is the Museum of Musical Instruments and Puppets in Goslar.

Walking through an old street, a green area suddenly opens up, and it turns out that this is the emperor's palace. It is an 11th-century Roman palace that is the pride and pride of Goslar. Take a closer look. Although the building was renovated in the 19th century, it still shows the atmosphere and simplicity of medieval architecture.

The Emperor's Palace was the most majestic building in the German Empire at the time, and it was the site of numerous imperial and court councils over a period of two hundred years, telling the history of Germany and Europe.

At the entrance of the palace, there are bronze statues of Wilhelm the Great and Frederick the Great Barcelono, and there are imperial halls and huge murals showing German history on the second floor, but unfortunately not allowed to take pictures, and there will be special people to explain the exquisite murals and history after 3 o'clock.

The bronze eagle below is an ancient treasure of the symbol of the city on the fountain in the central square. St. Ulrich (St. Ulrich) Ulrich is the southern attached prayer room of the palace, where Heinrich III, who died in 1056, is buried. The heart of the emperor, whose portrait is still carved on the tombstone. The windows of the Emperor's Palace overlook the town.

There is also a witch museum in Golar. In addition to exhibiting the various shapes and tools used by witches, there are also many historical and legendary materials of witches, and witch plays are performed regularly every week. Goslar also held a World Witches Congress, where representatives of witches from all over the world gathered.

In Europe, May 1 was once seen as the beginning of summer. And the night before the summer, on the night of April 30th. According to legend in the Harz Mountains, it is the day when witches gather. This evening. Locals and tourists dressed in fancy costumes and witch masks take to the streets of Goslar from all directions on broomsticks.

In addition to playing as a witch, there are also characters such as musicians, dragons, unicorns, and man-wolves. They marched to the barren Brocken Hills. A witch's stronghold. With the fireworks at midnight, the witches began to make their way home. Crosses and firewood were also tied to doors, whips were sounded, and church bells rang.

But when Yunluo and Yan Shenyu talk to the locals, the city of Goslar is not, or not only, famous for Witch City. Almost all Germans. When you think of Goslar, the first thing that comes to mind is Kaiserstadt (Imperial Capital) rather than Witch Town.

It's because there is an emperor's palace here. Whether this is an imperial capital or a witch city, only you can feel it yourself~

How did you get here, from the fairytale town of Bremen to the witch city of Goslar, or because in 2000 it also hosted the World Fair.

Or is there a deep connection to the Germanic ancestry of the British royal family? During the trip, there are always a lot of things that Yunluo and Yan Shenyu don't know, don't know its history, haven't heard its name... This time, in this ancient and colorful city of Hannover, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu were walking and stopping, inadvertently learning a lot of history and culture, and generating a lot of insights.

Hannover is not big and not much different from other European cities. Located on the banks of the Lena River, it is the capital of the German state of Lower Saxony, at the intersection of the North German plain and the Sino-German mountains.

It is not only at the intersection of Germany's north-south and east-west railway lines, but also close to the Sino-German Canal, and is a transportation hub with land and water. Now Hannover is a city with a highly developed industrial manufacturing industry, and is the center of Germany's automobile, machinery, electronics and other industries.

As you can tell from guidebooks, the city's sights can be viewed slowly along the 4,200-metre-long red line (roterfaden), a guide line on the street. The Red Route Tour takes 2 to 3 hours from the tourist information desk in front of the train station to the time it returns.

Yunluo and Yan Shenyu still follow their favorite leisure way, it took about 5 hours to browse the city, and when Yunluo and Yan Shenyu walked according to the red line, they found that the red line had two old and new in some areas, and the instructions were not very clear, so they also needed to use a map for reference.

Exit the train station and walk through a shopping pedestrian area with boutique corridors and trendy shops. From the finest porcelain to teapots found at flea markets, from diamond jewellery to trendy jewellery, it has everything to choose from. If you step faster, you will suddenly find that Yunluo and Yan Shenyu have arrived in Hanover.

Many of the red-brick buildings were rebuilt after World War II. These include the old town hall with a red brick structure and the Gothic marktkirche market church. Part of the old red town hall was built as early as 1410 and has been expanded several times since. Since the relocation of the mayor's office to the new town hall, the old town hall is now home only to the Civil Affairs Office.

The Marktkirche (Market Church) is located in the heart of Hannover's Old Town and is one of the three oldest churches in Hanover and one of the largest in Lower Saxony. Much of the building still retains the 14th-century North German architectural style, and the roof of the church was destroyed in an air raid in 1943 and restored in 1952. The church is 97 meters high and is an icon of Hanover.

Hannover Church is famous in the area, and it was here that the 2009 German Football League First Division team Nke (goalkeeper) was memorialized.

At that time, the church was packed to the last inch of space. With a capacity of around 1,000 people, more than 3,000 fans stayed in the rain outside the church gates, listening to the organ playing Mass. Outside the church on Easter Avenue and beyond, there are more than 3. A parade of 50,000 fans.

Enke's death told Yunluo and Yan Shenyu that football is not everything in life, and the regional archbishop Margot? In his sermon, Kesman said that behind fame and success. Perhaps there is a deep loneliness and despair buried. Pain, cowardice and sickness. will be a part of life. What Yunluo and Yan Shenyu need is the experience of empathy, as well as compassion.

The interior decoration of the church is simple, there are sculptures of two horses' heads, and the totems on the walls, although Yunluo does not know what it represents, but the solemn Gothic church can always make people calm down quickly.

Not far from the market square. Yunluo and Yan Shenyu came to see a fountain, the Oskar Winter Fountain, which was beautiful, but there was no water. Local legend has it that if you make a wish, then turn the small copper bell in the pavilion 3 times. The wish can come true, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu wanted to give it a try, but they felt that the fountain was too exquisite and did not go over to touch it.

Behind this fountain was once the former residence of the mathematician and philosopher Leibniz, whose Renaissance-style surface architecture was built later.

There are also some houses around the market square, like the wood-reinforced houses in Goslar, standing in rows on the roadside, remembering the old houses that he lived in Paris and Vienna for more than 100 years, Yunluo thinks that these wood-reinforced houses will have a longer history.

At this time, the red line of this city guide seemed to have a fork in the road, there were two different shades, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu wandered around casually, and walked to an unknown street.

The street in front of me is full of flowers, the grass is full of green, red, yellow, purple flowers all over the ground, all over the wall, all at once Yunluo and Yan Shenyu from the deep interest in ancient buildings back to the romantic color of the city.

When I saw the old town hall, I wondered what the new town hall would look like, and when I stood in front of this magnificent building, I couldn't help but be puzzled by the name of the new town hall (haus). The large and magnificent architectural shape shows its long history, like a remnant of some imperial era.

It was as if Hanover was still a kingdom. But in fact, it was a building that took 12 years to finally inaugurate on July 20, 1913. The building was not simple, and it was only after 6,026 beech stakes had to be driven in that the mud was like a swamp that the new town hall had to be firmly laid.

During World War II, the new town hall, like other buildings in Hanover, was heavily bombed by the US military, and the town hall was severely damaged. Entering the lobby of the town hall is nothing special, but the most noteworthy thing is the elevator that leads to the observation deck on the top floor. The elevator climbs 50 meters diagonally at a 17-degree angle along the vault.

It is the only elevator in Europe that rises incliningly, and when standing on it, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu are still a little nervous. The terrace of the town hall offers a view of the whole city, including the Marktkirche Church on the former market square, a memorial to the German troops who fought at Waterloo.

There is a statue of angel wings on top, and there is a park and lake in the distance. The Germans attach great importance to urban greenery, and more than half of the area of Hannover is made up of parks, urban forests and lakes, and it is this Marsch Lake and Jögen Park that Hannover has this Marsch Lake, which is also an artificial lake.

In the lobby of the new town hall there are four city models showing the cityscape of Hanover from the Middle Ages to the present day. Yunluo and Yan Shenyu carefully compared the two models of Hanover in 1939 and 1945, and the devastation caused by the Second World War was obvious.

On the way back to the train, pass by the Hannover State Opera. Designed by Georg, the construction of this opera house had some twists and turns. In 1837, King Ernst? Auguste was adamantly opposed to the construction of the opera house: the absurd idea of building the court theater on a green meadow would never have been agreed.

After a difficult persuasion of the work, the palace building was granted permission to build and was fully completed in 1852. But in fact, a London-based Guide to Opera House ranks the opera house among the 20 best opera houses in the world.

In addition to the history of the building, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu were also very interested in the Germanic ancestry of the British royal family. Why does the British royal family have such a strong German affection? Interestingly, looking back at the history of Great Britain, it is difficult to find a king of pure English blood, and the Germanic ancestry of the British royal family goes back nearly 300 years.

i.e. the time of George I. In 2004, Queen Elizabeth II set foot on the land where her ancestors lived for the fourth time to continue her journey to find her roots. History goes back to 1714 A.D., when Queen Anna of England died without heirs, in search of a Protestant king.

The parliament invited Anna's cousin, George, the son of the German Hannover candidate? Ludwig? Feng? Hanover came to England and became known as George I. This was the beginning of the English Hanover dynasty and the beginning of the Germanic lineage of the British royal family. (To be continued.) )

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