#Christian Culture
I enjoy going exploring on weekends (mostly). Here is a collection of stories and photos I gather along the way. All posts are CC BY-NC-SA licensed unless otherwise stated. Feel free to share, remix, and adapt the content as long as you give appropriate credit and distribute your contributions under the same license.
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April 2025
Snaps from April 2025, including a trip to the Müngstener Bridge (Müngstener Brücke), the highest railway bridge in Germany (near Remscheid/Solingen), and visits to the Schnütgen Museum, the Museum for East Asian Art, and the Ruhr Museum in Essen. We also visited the discovery art fair in Cologne, which is a great place to discover new art and artists.
October 2024
Snaps from October 2024, including a trip to Frankfurt where I visited the Martin Parr exhibition at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. I was in Frankfurt for a conference and took a late train back to Cologne, which gave me the chance to see the exhibition. It was a retrospective of his early black and white photos. I also visited the Paulskirche, the Ikonenmuseum, the Liebighaus, the Archaeological Museum, and the Jewish Museum. It seems like a busy schedule, but I had fun in all these places and experienced Frankfurt as an awesome, diverse, international, and interesting city.
September 2024
Snaps from September 2024, including a visit to Pützchen’s Markt in Bonn, one of the oldest and largest folk festivals in Germany. I also had the chance to visit Groß St. Martin during the Day of the Open Monument (Tag des offenen Denkmals) in Cologne – one of the rare moments when you can take photos inside the church. The Day of the Open Monument lasted two days, so I also visited the historical town hall of Cologne as well as the Baptistery near the Cologne Cathedral.
August 2024
Snaps from August 2024, including a visit to the wholesale market, the botanical garden (Flora), the Kartäuser Church, St. Aposteln, St. Kolumba Madonna in den Trümmern, Antoniterkirche, all in Cologne, and I spent half a day at Schloss Augustusburg in Brühl, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an important baroque site in Germany.
March 2024
Snaps from March 2024, including the first trip to Ahrweiler after the great flood in 2021.
February 2024
Snaps from February 2024, including the participation in the Geisterzug during the Cologne Carnival, a Saturday walk through Cologne, and the participation in the demonstration on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Roncalliplatz, Cologne).
January 2024
Snaps from January 2024, including a visit to the Museum Ludwig, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, the Schnütgen Museum, the El-De Haus, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, and the Cologne Cathedral. In mid-January, something really rare happened: It snowed in Cologne. The city was covered in a white blanket, and I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the snow-covered city. We also participated in one of the many demonstrations that spontaneously sprung up across Germany at the end of the month against far-right movements and the far-right AfD party. There were 70,000 participants in Cologne alone.
December 2023
Snaps from December 2023, including a visit to the Museum for East Asian Art in Cologne, the Ruhrmuseum in Essen, and the New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne.
August 2023
Snaps from August 2023, including shots of my new tea ceramics, a visit to the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, and Schnütgen Museum (all in Cologne).
March 2023
Snaps from March 2023, including a visit to Maria Laach and Göttingen (Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society).
February 2023
Snaps from February 2023, straying around in Cologne, and trips to Wuppertal, the Eifel, the Cologne Wholesale Market, and a visit to the Schnütgen Museum in Cologne.
September 2022
Snaps from September 2022, including a trip to the Eifel and Berlin (Bernstein Conference at the TU Berlin) with visits to the Altes Museum and the Bode Museum.
August 2022
Snaps from August 2022, including a visit to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Schnütgen Museum and Römisch-Germanisches Museum (currently located at the Belgisches Haus) in Cologne.
July 2022 (2)
The last chunk from July 2022, with a trip to the Eifel and a visit to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne.
April 2022
Straying around in April (Cologne, Andernach, Bad Breisig, and Aachen, including snaps of this year’s cherry blossom in Cologne).
