Saarbrucken Trip
A Tour Of a Church and a Walk Through a Market
We took a trip to the town of Saarbrucken, where we met a tour guide outside of a famous cathedral. The cathedral was beautiful, though sadly my phone was dead and therefore I do not have any photos of it. The inside was mostly white, and in the middle of the ceiling there was intricately laced gold plating with the illuminati eye in the middle. It was supposed to represent God looking down on the members of the congregation. There were also around twelve or so white statues of women that were kind of holding the church up, and they all had little trinkets or props with them symbolizing things...though I don't remember any of the trinkets or props that any of them had.
Following that somewhat brief tour of the church, we walked a little ways down the road to the place which is pictured in the top right hand corner of the gallery shown below. The cobblestone walkway is a bit out of the ordinary. Not that cobblestone walkways are uncommon in Germany, but this one in particular was unusual. A while back, a professor from a nearby university went out in the dead of night and removed a few cobblestones. On the bottom of them, he engraved the names of Jews that died during the Holocaust. Then he put them back where he took them from. Therefore, that little place has come to be known as a memorial to all the Jews that perished in the Holocaust who haven't been named yet. Pretty cool stuff.
After that, we were given free time to explore the square of the city. We were tasked simply with finding three items we hadn't seen in America, taking pictures of them, and writing about them in our blog. Therefore, the other four pictures shown below are those things. Top left is a bag of heart-shaped cracker-y things. Bottom left is a kind of stromboli dish with bacon in it. Top middle was this quirky place in the mall that was like an ice cream store, but for liquor and absinthe. Never seen anything like that in America. Lastly, bottom middle is a mannequin, but the face was a convex (or concave depending on your perspective) mirror. This made it so your face was on the mannequin. Kind of a cool idea, I dug it.
Saarbrucken was also the place where I had my first German beer. So that's cool.
Following that somewhat brief tour of the church, we walked a little ways down the road to the place which is pictured in the top right hand corner of the gallery shown below. The cobblestone walkway is a bit out of the ordinary. Not that cobblestone walkways are uncommon in Germany, but this one in particular was unusual. A while back, a professor from a nearby university went out in the dead of night and removed a few cobblestones. On the bottom of them, he engraved the names of Jews that died during the Holocaust. Then he put them back where he took them from. Therefore, that little place has come to be known as a memorial to all the Jews that perished in the Holocaust who haven't been named yet. Pretty cool stuff.
After that, we were given free time to explore the square of the city. We were tasked simply with finding three items we hadn't seen in America, taking pictures of them, and writing about them in our blog. Therefore, the other four pictures shown below are those things. Top left is a bag of heart-shaped cracker-y things. Bottom left is a kind of stromboli dish with bacon in it. Top middle was this quirky place in the mall that was like an ice cream store, but for liquor and absinthe. Never seen anything like that in America. Lastly, bottom middle is a mannequin, but the face was a convex (or concave depending on your perspective) mirror. This made it so your face was on the mannequin. Kind of a cool idea, I dug it.
Saarbrucken was also the place where I had my first German beer. So that's cool.