North Venice. Second day.
Northern Venice. Second day.
Day two.
After waking up early, we had a quick breakfast and went for a walk around the city. Sunday morning greeted us with cloudy weather with a piercing north wind. We decided that we definitely need to go to the port, because there is a very important, more for men, landmark of Hamburg, but more on that later. From the hotel to the port, walk for 10-15 minutes at a slow pace through the narrow streets of the sleeping city. Along the way, there were human individuals with the remnants of night adventures on their faces and bodies, and already drinking beer in the morning, and maybe something stronger. Night life was coming to an end, the city was lit up with the colors of dawn. View from our hotel towards the street. St. Pauli.
Neatly parked cars.
Towards the center.
The belfry of St. Michael's Church is visible in the background.
Approaching the port, we heard the sound of the sea, the cries of people and seagulls, something was clearly happening there. It turned out there was a morning market, which is very typical for port cities large and small around the world. Trade was brisk everywhere.
In one place, waving their hands and shouting, “Fresh fruit! "-large wicker baskets with fruit were sold - one such - 10 euros!
Fruits can be swapped - you want more mangoes, you want pitahayas, and you want pineapples or bananas! All for the people!
Slightly further stalls with souvenirs, clothes, bought funny T-shirts and moved on. The Germans are so emotional! They had fun, praised their product, threw it into the crowd, as it turned out later. It turns out that the market only lasts a couple of hours. And everyone wants to sell their goods, prices fall towards the close, they give a lot for 1 euro, and illiquid assets for nothing. Seafood for every taste, here you have octopuses, squids and fish. We bought fruit for 1.5 euros and a half kg. Sharon and 1 euro each mango - then arranged a fruity second breakfast on the way to the next city of our trip!
fresh sea delicacies.
Nuts-total 2.90.
Fruit baskets.
After taking some pictures against the backdrop of the sea and ships, together with the seagulls, the indigenous inhabitants of the port, we moved in the opposite direction - to the sights, namely, the SOVIET submarine, yes, yes ! ! ! It has long been moored in the port of Hamburg and is a museum. Alex wanted to get into it so much! Submarine B-515! Sometime around 2002, enterprising Germans bought this boat from the Russian fleet. The deal was for 1.25 million euros. It was first opened to the public in 2002. We did not visit inside, as it was closed, Tours started at 11.00, and it was only the beginning of 10. .
and we didn't have much time, because at lunchtime we were going to move on, and we still need to walk to the city center. A little disappointed Alex and we three of his companions wandered on.
Port.
Submarine.
Dawn over the city center.
Like us. people are entertained in the markets so that trade can go faster. Who plays and who sings.
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Walking through the market and then a voice from the loudspeaker on the street-Akhtung, Akhtung! ! . . The feeling was that time quickly ran back, frost ran through the skin. It's creepy, as if she had been in the past for a split second. It turned out to be just an announcement in German that the market closes in 20 minutes. OOO . . such a movement began here! Products flew in the air, and those who wished put their hands up and who was safe, who was not very good, caught fruits, fish, vegetables in their hands, so the merchants sold them for a penny and simply threw their goods into the crowd! You need to go home with an empty box and a full wallet. The market was closing, and we hurried on.
Quickly running to the hotel, leaving the purchases and dressing warmly, as the cold intensified, we walked around the city towards the town hall on foot. The majestic knight was the first on our way.
It didn't take long for us to recognize him as Otto Bismarck. And it was him-
Otto von Bismarck! The monument to the first chancellor of Germany is located in the Elbpark. It is made in the form of one of the knights of Charlemagne. Its height together with the plateau reaches 34 meters. The monument itself is 15 meters. Made from Black Forest granite. It took three years to create it. This is the highest monument in Hamburg. They write that it can be seen from many points of the city. Maybe it was like that before, now the trees around are branched and tall... I think they obscure it. Bismarck is the first Chancellor of Germany to unify it. He is known for his iron and unpredictable character, it was he who came up with the idea of paying people for getting sick or injured at work, he gave rise to the insurance system, the pension system. He was an ambiguous person. This statement belongs to him-
“Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of the people. ” He lived in many cities and there are monuments to him everywhere, he died in Hamburg. Perhaps that is why there is a monument to him, who knows.
Vandals are everywhere. Here is a front view of the monument, here is a view from the other side.
Hurrying German kids somewhere, they were with a man, either with dad, or with a nanny. Dad didn't make it into the frame.
just a street in Hamburg with beautiful houses.
Further on our way was a church. And it turned out that this is the most important Protestant and the highest church in Hamburg, although you can’t tell from the look. Church of St. Michael.
Or, as the Hamburg people call her, Big Michel. Its height is 132 meters. By chance (although there is nothing accidental in the world), when we already approached it, we heard a beautiful chime, song, music... we were beckoned to go inside the cathedral, it was the famous solo on the chimney sweep pipe in the bell tower. They perform it only at 10.00 and 21.00 every day. I regret that I did not climb the bell tower. Everyone caught fire. yes, let's go, but as soon as my youth saw that it was 453 steps, they instantly lost their desire. And it was inconvenient to get up alone and make them wait for me. The fact that there is an elevator, I learned much later.
That's another reason to return to Hamburg. There are as many as five organs in the church!
And in the crypts under the church, famous people of Hamburg are buried, one of them is the son of the composer Bach. And the clock covered with gold, located on the bell tower of the church, is the largest in Germany. Each of their arrows weighs more than 100 kg! Indeed, being a couple of kilometers from the church, it was clearly visible what time the hands of the clock showed.
I liked the unusual reflection of the old on the modern.
Once the church served as a lighthouse for ships coming to the port, it was clearly visible from the sea. But the history of the church is mystical. This is the third church built on this site. The first one was struck by lightning and burned down, the second one burned down from a fire, then the organ on which Bach's son played also burned down, and only the third even withstood the bombing during the Second World War. When you get inside....
it's an incredible feeling, not at all like in our churches. There is something mystical in their cathedrals, although this cathedral is not built in the Gothic style, there is baroque here with its luxury and gold leaf.
Not far from the church of St. Michael, on the way to the city center, we met a monument to an old woman. And this old woman is very famous. This is "Lemon Jett" Once upon a time there lived a woman in Hamburg who had physical defects and was very small in stature. 1.32m. Together with her little sister, they were left orphans, and in order to somehow feed herself, she began selling lemons. She bought them at the port and sold them to the townspeople, and at night she went to the St. Pauli area (aka the red light district) where she sold lemons in pubs, and visitors sometimes treated her to alcohol . . Since then, she has been slowly drinking too much.
She spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital. Her name was Henriette Mü ller. Not only has a monument been erected to her, but in Hamburg there is also an award statuette depicting Henrietta, which is awarded to women who fight for their equality and help other women. Her finger is rubbed to a shine, there is a belief that if you rub it, your wishes will come true. Lost, check).
Next, well, here they are, the canals of Hamburg! There is even a whole area on the canals. How harmonious they are! How majestically the waters flow through the beautiful dark brick houses, sometimes it seems that this is a huge ship going through the canal. The city looks breathtakingly beautiful even in such uncomfortable weather. Huge leaden clouds and the wind did their job and a light rain began, and there was nowhere to hide-Sunday. All shops in Germany are closed!
In the distance you can see the church of St. Nicholas in neo-gothic style. After the war, only the tower remained from it.
Subway. Ida-yes, patches on the pavement! )
And lo and behold, there is a cafe on the way, we went in to warm up and some to drink coffee, and some to eat soup. Having warmed up and refreshed ourselves with new forces, we moved to our goal, the Town Hall. And the rain kept getting stronger.
My girls wrapped themselves in scarves and briskly accelerated their pace, and Alex and I, each with our own camera, clicked the shutters in the rain, such beauty opened up around! And even Alex, who has seen almost all of Europe, was delighted!
The lower floor is in a cafe, a canal is visible from the windows - water reaches the middle of the lower windows. Cozy and warm.
The rain was already pouring down like a bucket. Wet, we turned towards the main square and the Town Hall itself. The preparations for the Christmas market have already begun. In general, the Germans begin to equip places for fairs in a month, we later observed this in all the cities that we were. And that was November. And here it is - City Hall!
Luxurious building with a mint-colored roof. A building of 647 rooms that were closed this Sunday morning. Beautiful, no, that's not the right word, how cozy and calm it is.
Trees that look like plane trees, but I'm not sure.
The Christmas trees are already ready, waiting in the wings.
And everywhere there are taps, taps . . in all cities! Hamburg is no exception.
It's raining, there are few people, the steps come up to the water itself, there is a frame for a Christmas tree right there and somehow it all doesn't fit, the Christmas tree, the rain, but at the same time it amazes with its magnificence! . Everything in this city is great!
. There are dozens of parks in the city.
The buildings are all beauty and regularity, clarity of forms and how harmoniously the old buildings fit into the modern industrial port city! Behind the main square is a quarter of elite boutiques, which, fortunately for us, were all closed, otherwise we would have lost precious time there and would have been less able to enjoy the city itself.
It's not nice to take pictures of beggars, but I couldn't resist. She already has an umbrella and a suitcase on her Frau, and she was dressed warmly and quite expensively.
There are also such beggars.
Man posing.
subway station
Despite the autumn, the whole city shimmers with colors from yellow and green to crimson and gold. The leaves rustle underfoot, and the northern sea wind lifts and dances the leaves.
The bridge of lovers.
Having made a circle, we went towards our hotel along the way, suddenly bumping into a modest rear Google.
Google headquarters.
Further behind the fence was a building that is being demolished - and all work has been stopped - because the true Aryans do not work on Sunday. So the equipment stands abandoned, on which the time of work stopped, and everything froze. And it was the only dirty place in the city, apart from the beer rivers spilled the previous night, trickling down from the pubs to the road in the St. Pauli area.
The rain stopped and the sun came out and we, tired, but happy, hurried to the hotel - things were thrown into the car and on the way - on a journey through the northern cities of Germany!
Hamburg left a good impression on all of us - all four people of different ages, and he sunk into the soul with his views on life! And if I ever wanted to live in Germany, I would choose Hamburg! Even though I can't stand the cold! )
German sausages gossiping about something.
Hamburg TV tower.
Despite the fact that this is a huge city, it is so easy, free and cozy in it! It has wide avenues, there is a subway, there is a sea, rivers and the Alster lake, and this is the greenest city in Germany, so they say! We didn't see much else. . the TV tower (only from the car window, passing by), 279.8 m high, which is located in the Planten un Blomen park.
The locals call it tele-Michel by analogy with St. Michael's Cathedral. We didn’t look into the outer Alster, the one behind the Town Hall, we didn’t take a boat ride on the river... but I will definitely return there and go to the match when Bayern play! ! ! in this city they are definitely lucky! )
P. S. some photos with highlights. I confess, then I did not have a protective filter). and for some reason cropped the photo on the site. Who will tell you how to fix this? I have them full size.
