Transcript What makes - Germany – unique?

What makes
- GERMANY unique?
Famous Buildings
Brandenburg Gate
• a former city gate
• one of the main symbols
Germany
• located west of the city center in Berlin
• was commissioned by King Frederick William II
of Prussia as a sign of peace
• built by Carl Gotthard Langhans from 1788 to 1791
• today one of Europe's most famous landmarks
Neuschwanstein Castle
• a 19th-century Bavarian palace
on a rugged hill near Hohenschwangau and Füssen in southwest
Bavaria, Germany
• was commissioned by Ludwig II
of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner,
the King's inspiring muse.
Semper Oper
• the opera house of the Saxon State Opera Dresden
and the concert hall of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
in Dresden, Germany.
• was first built in 1841, by architect Gottfried Semper
Kölner Dom
• the Roman Catholic cathedral, in Cologne
• has a height of 157, 25 meters
• the second-highest in Germany and the third-highest in the
world
Reichstag
• the building was designed as a home to the parliament of the
German Empire
• was opened in 1894
Cultural Events
Loveparade
• the biggest techno and dance festival in the world
• every year it takes place in another country in west germany
• many people all over the world, mainly from Germany and
Poland travel to the unique dance event
• the average of visitors of the Loveparade is about 1,5 billion
people per year
Oktoberfest
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world's largest folk festival
is mainly held in September
continues since 1811
a fifteen-day festival held each year in Munich
the world's largest fair
are supplied by 6 breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten,
Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and HackerPschorr
• the original "Oktoberfest" occurred in Munich, on October
18, 1810: For the commemoration of their marriage, Crown
Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I) and Princess.
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Rock am Ring
• a music festival which first took place in 1985,
where U2, Chris de burgh, Joe Cocker,
Gianna Naninni, Rick Springfield, Foreigner, Saga,
Westerhagen and many more took part
• since then it became the most famous Festival in Germany.
• one important aspect is the camping around the Festival
area
Nürnberger Christkindlesmarkt
• every year Germany's most famous Christmas
Market opens its stalls for visitors from all over the world
• starts at 5.30 p.m. on the Friday before the first Advent
Sunday, the Christmas Angel opens her market
• more than two million visitors from all over the world will
have sampled the delights of the Christmas Market
• Nuremberg Christmas Market with its traditional image has
also been a model for other Christmas Markets
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Food & Drinks
Beer
• the
world's
oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the
third most popular drink overall after water and tea
• produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches,
mainly derived from cereal grains
• the most common of which is malted barley, although wheat,
maize (corn), and rice are widely used
Bratwurst
• a sausage composed of pork,
beef or veal
 the word “brat” describes the way
how the sausages are made
 Bratwurst are usually grilled
and sometimes cooked in broth or beer
 often eaten with hot German mustard in a bread roll
Döner
• Turkish dish made of lamb meat cooked
on a vertical split and sliced off to order
• is now widely available across Europe
and Canada, in these countries, mostly
in the variant developed in Germany
• the meat may be lamb, mutton, beef, goat or chicken
Riesling (wine)
• a white grape variety which originates
in the Rhine region of Germany
• 2004, Riesling was estimated to be
the world's 20th most grown variety
• included in the "top three" white wine varieties
Sauerkraut
• the word comes directly from
the German language, which literally translates to sour
cabbage.
• It’s a traditional German food
• a common and traditional ingredient in German cuisine.
• Sauerkraut may be eaten raw and unadorned
• a popular German dish combines warmed sauerkraut with
Schupfnudeln (potato noodles, the German equivalent of
gnocchi)
Pretzel
• the most popular pastry in Southern Germany
• a legend says that the pretzel was made by a German baker
in Bad Urach
• has the shape of a three looped knot or twisted braid
• are common in southern Germany where they are often
sliced horizontally, buttered and sold as Butterbrezel
• in Bavaria they eat pretzels for breakfast with Weisswurst
sausage, which is also unique for Germany
Black Forest Gateau
• a southern German dessert
• Black Forest cake consists of:
layers of chocolate cake with
whipped cream and cherries between
• in some European traditions sour cherries are used
both between the layers and for decorating the top
• combining cherries, biscuit and cream probably
originated in Germany
• the confectioner Josef Keller claims to have invented
black forest gateau in 1915 in the then prominent
Café Agner in Bad Godesberg
Landscapes
Bodensee
• a lake on the Rhine between Germany, Switzerland and
Austria
• the level of the lake is at 395 m above sea level.
• the greatest depth is 252 m in the middle of the eastern part
(Obersee)
• tts volume is approx. 55 billion m³
• the lake has four parts: Obersee, Überlinger See, Zeller See
and Untersee
• formed by the Rhine Glacier during the ice ages
• the Rhine, the Bregenzer Ache and the Dornbirner Ache
transport a lot of sediments from the Alps to the Lake, thus
minimizing the size of the lake from the southeast
Bayerischer Wald
• a low mountain range in Bavaria, Germany
• it extends along the Czech border and is
continued on the Czech side by the Bohemian Forest
• the highest mountain is the Großer Arber (1456 m)
• the main river is the Regen, which is formed by the
conjunction of White Regen and Black Regen and leaves the
mountains towards the city of Regensburg
• a portion of the Bavarian Forest is occupied by the Bavarian
Forest National Park (240 km²).
• founded in 1970, it was the first national park of Germany
Zugspitze
• the highest mountain of Germany
• located close to the Austrian border in the
district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria
• there is a cog railway leading from the tourist resort of
Garmisch-Partenkirchen to the peak
• the peak is regularly crowded with tourists
Eifel
• a hilly region in Germany, occupies parts of southwestern
North Rhine-Westphalia and northwestern RhinelandPalatinate
• the Eifel is bordered by the Moselle river in the south and the
Rhine in the east, continued by the hills of the High Venn in
the west by the Ardennes
• since 2004 about 110 km² of the Eifel are protected as the
Eifel National Park
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Schwarzwald
• known for three distinctive features: its highlands, scenery
and woods, the typical Black Forest
Gateau whose success is based on tasty cherry schnapps and
the traditional cuckoo-clock
• the name black forest was quite accurate in earlier times,
when the forest was impenetrable though profitable - wood,
silver and ore were the foundations of the Black Forest's
inhabitants comparable wealth
• the Black Forest region is blessed with a particularly rich
mythological landscape
Religion
The Pope
• Pope Benedict XVI, the head of the Roman Catholic Church
and of the Vatican City State, was born as Joseph Alois
Ratzinger on 16 April 1927
• he is the 265th and reigning Pope. He was elected on 19
April 2005 in a papal conclave. He succeeded Pope John
Paul II.
• Pope Benedict XVI has
the German
and the Vatican citizenship.
Martin Luther
• was born in 1483 on 10 November
• was a German monk, theologian, university
professor, priest, father of Protestantism and church reformer
Martin Luthers CV:
• 1505 Monk in Erfurt
• 1512 Doctor of Theology in Wittenberg
• 1517 Nailed the 95 Theses to the door of
the Castle Church
• 1521 Outlawed and exiled to the Wartburg
• 1522 Return to Wittenberg
• 1525 Married Katharina von Bora
• 1534 Published the complete Bible in German
• 1546 (February 18) Died in Eisleben
Science &
Industry
German Car Industry
• Germany is the world leader
in production of high-quality cars
• Safety and low consumption
is the first priority for the German car industry
• VW, Audi, Mercedes Benz are well known brands
over the world
• the most popular German car is still the „trabby”
Engineering
• well educated employees with highest technical
standard and a huge capital
• more than 140,000 engineers and computer specialists are
working in Germany and is therefore one of the main
employer of engineers
• 74% of the rollover of machines comes from foreign
countries
• with 19% on the world market Germany is one leading
supplier for machines, further more in 21 of 31 subbranches
Germany is also the leading supplier worldwide
Sports in Germany
Football
• Football is the most popular discipline in Germany
• the German national team is the world champion of 1954,
1974 and 1990 and the European champion of 1972, 1980,
1996
• Germany has many well known football clubs which play in
the highest European football league in Europe like Bayern
München, Werder Bremen.
• Football became more popular for the women in Germany
since the last few years
• Germany has also well-known German clubs who play in the
highest European football leagues like 1. FFC Frankfurt and
1. FFC Turbine Potsdam
Handball
• the second popular discipline in Germany
• the German handball League is the strongest league of the
world
• the German national team is the world champion of 1978
and 2007 and the European champion of 2004 and 2006
• Germany has well-known handball clubs which play in the
highest European handball league like VFL Gummersbach,
THW Kiel and SC Magdeburg
• women Handball in Germany is
also very popular.
Basketball
• Basketball in Germany won many fans in the last years
• the basketball national team just won the European
championship in 1993
• Germany has got well-known German clubs which play in the
highest European basketball league like ALBA Berlin and TSV
Bayer Leverkusen
Literature
Ludwig van Beethoven
• was born in Bonn/Germany
• German composer, the predominant
musical figure in the transitional period
between the Classical
and Romantic eras
• Beethoven dominates a period of
musical history as no one else
before or since
• died on the 26 March 1827 in Vienna
• a genius regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived
The Dual Traineeship
• the short form of the dual traineeship system
• normally you have to go one or two times a week to school
and three or four times to the company where you do your
traineeship or you have block-released school
• there are many different kinds of traineeships e. g. in the car
industry as technician for car mechantronics, in shops as sales
assistant or as industrial clerk in an office
• during the traineeship you have to pass two main exams, the
intermediate examination (40 %) and the final examination
(60 %) of the chamber of commerce and industry
• if you fail the examination you can ask for a repetition at the
next appointment for the examination (max. one year
afterwards)
Public Transport
Our german public transport system
• the smallest village
is connected to the public
transport system, at least by
bus or regional train
• the longest trip by bus to catch the next express train at the
nearest railway station usually takes not more than 45
minutes
• our express train the ICE Inter City Express
• one of the fastest trains worldwide
• the ICE is speeding through Germany up
to ca. 300 km/h
• every larger City has a suburban train or a subway
• the high ticket prices are also unique ;-)
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our presentation :-)