Bamberg in December 2009

All images are my property. Music is by "Yahe" with 2 songs- La Oracion del Mitayo" and "Iaki Rima". Description of my vid:
History view of Bamberg of the Regnitz to Saint Michael. Bamberg is a town with history and stories. With a walk through the winding lanes of the Old Town or up to the former Benedictine's abbey Saint Michael an anecdote lurks behind every corner, rescues each of the houses which have changed her face in the course of the time over and over again and have remained loyal to themselves, nevertheless, anyhow, his own small secret. Every building, from the cathedral up to village inn, is a witness of a living, moving town and the ideas and visions of his inhabitants. Behind the baroque facade of Saint Jakob the only one hides, for example, preserved Romanesque church of Bamberg which became like so a lot other in the course of a baroque construction desire in the 18-th century almost completely. Also the old city hall which stands on posts in the midst of the Regnitz and shows the connection between the Old Town in the so-called sand area and which to Neustadt on the island was renewed by citizens of Bamberg over and over again and was extended.

But when did it go loose with the history of Bamberg? The first unequivocal documentary mention of "Castrum Babenberch" on the today's cathedral mountain is found already at the beginning of 10-th century in the chronicle of the historian abbot Regino von Prühm (840-915). However, Heinrich II who was chosen after the death of emperor Otto III the German king laid the real foundation-stone for the town. Heinrich founded 1007 the diocese Bamberg and initiated the construction of the emperor's cathedral in which he was buried after his death. The Heinrichdom was destroyed, by the way, by two fires. The new cathedral, as he sits also enthroned even today on one of seven hills of Bamberg, was consecrated only in 1237.

At first the prince-episcopal mountain town of Bamberg controlled, however, bit by bit a civil settlement which is even today the center of the Old Town studied in the "sand". As central branches of industry developed the market garden from which beside the cultivation of vegetables and seed also the export product most important for a long time, the sweet wood root, arose, and of course the beer brewery. Indeed, the number of the brewers has shrunk meanwhile around something, but, at least, there also are even today ten private breweries in the town and in the old-established „ Schlenkerla' one can enjoy like at that time real Bamberger smoke beer. The years between 1450 and 1650 brought difficult times for Bamberg. Disputes between both powerhouses, prince-episcopal on one and middle-class on the other side, farm wars, mark count wars and religion wars, plague and witch's pursuit destroyed the prosperity of the town. At the end of the 30-year-old war the population from 12,000 to 6900 had shrunk and many of the damaged buildings lay fallow.

Only the 18-th century brought under bishops Lothar Franz and Friedrich Karl von Schönborn new shine. The financial plight was tackled and it came to a regular construction boom, while the whole town to the new baroque taste was adapted. In progress the Säkularisierungsprozesse fell the high-level pencil Bamberg in Bavaria, and in the 19-th century the industrialization also left here her tracks. The growth in population was terrifically accelerated, and about 1900 one already counted 42,000 inhabitants. In the 2 world war Bamberg had luck in the misfortune. It has got away with a destruction of less than 5% of his buildings relatively lightly. In 1993 then the Unesco appointed the Bamberger Old Town which has not lost her fascination till this day together with other European towns like Prague, Salzburg and Cracow the world cultural heritage.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• Bamberg
• Schlenkerla
• Rauchbier
• Cathedrale
• Churches
• Yahe

[cleavergurl29]

wow amazing pictures my dear charlie,.your video look like u r religious man..thank you for history very nice. job well done,,thumb,s up

[remerbr]

Super!