All Quiet on the Timmerlah Front.

"Out of the ruins arises what the war destroyed"

I had a quiet day today and thankfully, it is much cooler with a breeze blowing.  I ran out of food this morning,  I was down to my last egg, a stale roll and an apple, so was forced to go shopping.   I've now stocked up for a few days, but I never did like shopping.

I've switched on the tennis from "Queen's Club" in London and I'm shocked at how  green the grass it, it's all very yellow here.

Houses in the Magniviertal.

Before the last war Braunschwieg was a congested city of half timbered houses, like the examples shown here.  In the fire bombing in 1945,  90% of the buildings were destroyed, rather like the "Pudding Lane" London scenario of 1666.   Since the war some buildings have been reconstructed as the originals and others have come from other towns and found a new home here.   Each newly erected building carries a date and some information about its history.

The plaque left, is on a house rebuilt here from its original home in Ruenigen, not far from Braunschweig.  It was built in 1643 as a toll house and stood on the old "Reichsstrasse" road to Frankfurt.  In 1948-1950 it was re erected here by Peter Borel, one of the citizens of Braunschweig  who had the foresight to rescue parts of destroyed buildings and save them for future reconstruction.  

The stones from the bombed Royal Palace were numbered, buried for safe keeping and then re erected in 2005 to form "Schloss Arkaden" a big Shopping Mall in the city centre, with a library at one end and a museum at the other.   Over the years many buildings have risen from the ashes.  www.schlossarkaden.de