Tübingen: Another GIP
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selenakBecause I spent the most recent days there, and while it wasn't fore leisure, it's a ridiculously pretty (university) town, so of course I took pictures.
Tübingen is located in the federal state of Würtemberg, which means, cliché wise, money making and money saving Swabians (always), some tyrannical dukes, some world class poetry, roughly in the same 18th century era, and both rebellious and in the 20th century inquistorial theologians destined for international fame. It's located on the Neckar, which means it has a riverfront which looks like this:
The three standout buildngs are the castle, the city hall and the St. George Cathedral, mostly referred to as Evangelische Stiftskirche, what with a few Lutheran centuries on its back. The last one also has a climbable tower providing yours truly with a spectacular viewpoint over the city, which is where all the panoramic views are from. Like this loook, where you can make out the castle and the city hall very well.
This is the city hall. (Very pretty and old outside, very modern inside - the timber structure is maintained, but the rooms are all modern.)
It's located on the market square. The actual market takes place on Friday morning, see here:
But the rest of the week, square and city hall look like this:
Then there's the above mentoned cathedral/Lutheran Stiftskirche:
From the inside:
Some Würtemberg dukes. (The most infamous one, Carl Eugen, isn't there - he's notorious among other things for clashing with a young Friedrich Schiller, being dumped by his first wife, the niece of Frederick the Great, who after a few years of stormy marriage returned to her parents in Bayreuth, locking up his mother and building a lot.)
I just have a soft spot for tombs that include dogs:
Wandering thorugh Tübingen means going through alleys which look thusly:
Several poets either studied or lived in Tübingen, but the hands down most famous one is Friedrich Hölderlin, who after a mental breakdown spent the later half of his life first in the clinic and then in the building today named "Hölderlin Tower" where he was cared for by a book-loving carpenter and his family. It's all very tragic and you can read about it in the wiki entry I linked. The Hölderlinturm is this one:
Today, university buildings or buildings repurposed for the university are all over town, but the original auditorium maximum was the one called Old Aula today, this building:
Two of Tübingen's most famous professors of theology whom you may imagine lecturing there were Hans Küng (think liberation theology) and Joseph Ratzinger (think Pope). It's one of history's irony's that Küng - who ended up officially silenced by Ratzinger when the later was heading the modern day Inquisition under John Paul II - was actually the one most lobbying for Ratzinger to get called to Tübingen university in the first place. Supposedly future Pope Benedict arrived a moderate but was so shocked and alienated by the later 1960s student revolution he witnessed in Tübingen that he turned hardcore conservative in response.
On to the former castle, which is among the buildings repurposed for the Tübingen university today:
Let's go into the courtyard:
And the backside:
Have a few more overviews in all direction from the cathedral tower:
And one more look at the riverfront:
Tübingen is located in the federal state of Würtemberg, which means, cliché wise, money making and money saving Swabians (always), some tyrannical dukes, some world class poetry, roughly in the same 18th century era, and both rebellious and in the 20th century inquistorial theologians destined for international fame. It's located on the Neckar, which means it has a riverfront which looks like this:
The three standout buildngs are the castle, the city hall and the St. George Cathedral, mostly referred to as Evangelische Stiftskirche, what with a few Lutheran centuries on its back. The last one also has a climbable tower providing yours truly with a spectacular viewpoint over the city, which is where all the panoramic views are from. Like this loook, where you can make out the castle and the city hall very well.
This is the city hall. (Very pretty and old outside, very modern inside - the timber structure is maintained, but the rooms are all modern.)
It's located on the market square. The actual market takes place on Friday morning, see here:
But the rest of the week, square and city hall look like this:
Then there's the above mentoned cathedral/Lutheran Stiftskirche:
From the inside:
Some Würtemberg dukes. (The most infamous one, Carl Eugen, isn't there - he's notorious among other things for clashing with a young Friedrich Schiller, being dumped by his first wife, the niece of Frederick the Great, who after a few years of stormy marriage returned to her parents in Bayreuth, locking up his mother and building a lot.)
I just have a soft spot for tombs that include dogs:
Wandering thorugh Tübingen means going through alleys which look thusly:
Several poets either studied or lived in Tübingen, but the hands down most famous one is Friedrich Hölderlin, who after a mental breakdown spent the later half of his life first in the clinic and then in the building today named "Hölderlin Tower" where he was cared for by a book-loving carpenter and his family. It's all very tragic and you can read about it in the wiki entry I linked. The Hölderlinturm is this one:
Today, university buildings or buildings repurposed for the university are all over town, but the original auditorium maximum was the one called Old Aula today, this building:
Two of Tübingen's most famous professors of theology whom you may imagine lecturing there were Hans Küng (think liberation theology) and Joseph Ratzinger (think Pope). It's one of history's irony's that Küng - who ended up officially silenced by Ratzinger when the later was heading the modern day Inquisition under John Paul II - was actually the one most lobbying for Ratzinger to get called to Tübingen university in the first place. Supposedly future Pope Benedict arrived a moderate but was so shocked and alienated by the later 1960s student revolution he witnessed in Tübingen that he turned hardcore conservative in response.
On to the former castle, which is among the buildings repurposed for the Tübingen university today:
Let's go into the courtyard:
And the backside:
Have a few more overviews in all direction from the cathedral tower:
And one more look at the riverfront:
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Date: 2023-05-22 04:39 pm (UTC)(If you can't live in or visit Germany, befriend Selena!)
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Date: 2023-05-23 12:49 am (UTC)My first thought with the dukes was not quite sleepover but close: dormitory, haha.
Schizophrenia is always so tragic, especially in the days before they had any kind of effective treatment. One of the early Antarctic explorers (with Mawson's expedition) had schizophrenia, and he had a psychotic break when overwintering in Antarctica. He was the only one of the group who knew how to use the wireless radio, so they were all isolated from the outside world when they really hadn't expected to be. It was just terrible all around. I'm glad this poet had a carpenter to care for him (and am mildly amused that the carpenter's name is Zimmer: you know intellectually that many surnames are trade names in origin, but you don't often see it in action like this).
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Date: 2023-05-23 05:39 am (UTC)"Dormitory of Dukes" has a nice alliterative ring to it. Let's see - "Cabal of Counts" - "Bunch of Barons" - "Embarrasment of Emperors" - but what of Kings? The English language doesn't have many words starting with K, and "Kindred of Kings" just sounds boring.
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Date: 2023-05-23 05:51 am (UTC)And thank you for the orientation re: Friederike and Carl Eugen, whom I wouldn't have recognized without your reminder :) -- I didn't know he clashed with Schiller too! What's the story behind that?
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Date: 2023-05-23 06:06 am (UTC)CE: Young Friedrich, I hear you are a gifted teen. Join my military academy already!
FS, teen rebel: DNW, DNW, DNW!!!! (He refused three times before being made to join and promptly hated the military cadet life just as much as he expected to.l)
FS: I'm into literature and philosophy, so that's what I want to study.
CE: You'll become an army doctor like your Dad, so you'll study medicine, dammit.
FS: *studies medicine, secretly reads a lot, writes doctoral thesis about "The Philosophy of Physiology"*
CE: What kind of subject for medical thesis is that? Study another year, write a new one!
FS: *writes secretly first rebellious drama, "The Robbers", while studying another medical year with clenched teeth before leaving to practice as a doctor (nominally) and trying all to get his play staged (actually)*
FS: *publishes the play even before staging anonymously*
CE: Such a play will not be staged in my territory!
The Robbers: *get staged in Mannheim and become an overnight sensation all German states talk about*
CE: Did you travel to Mannheim without permission? 14 days arrest for you, and I forbid you to publish again!
FS: *after 14 days of arrest, flees Würtemberg for good*
FS: Also, in my next but one play Kabale und Liebe where Lady Milford hears about how her lover the Duke whom she wants to dump anyway sold entire regiments to America to finance his partyboy life? The scene Selena translated for
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Date: 2023-05-25 06:00 am (UTC)FS: Also, in my next but one play Kabale und Liebe where Lady Milford hears about how her lover the Duke whom she wants to dump anyway sold entire regiments to America to finance his partyboy life? The scene Selena translated for [personal profile] cahn? Let's just say I had a really good inspiration for the never appearing on stage Duke!
lolololol!