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July 20, 2019
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Discovering Wrocław

The city of Wrocław is the historical capital town of Silesia. A prosperous land in the center of Europe close to Bohemia. The town changed its affiliation several times. Founded by a Czech duke in the 10th century, it became part of the first Polish state and a political center of the Kingdom. In April 1241, during the First Mongol invasion of Poland, the city was abandoned by the inhabitants and burned down for strategic reasons. Later, it was repopulated by German settlers and became part of the German region of Silesia. After the 2nd World War and the westward border shift, Wrocław became Polish again. The city always was open to different ethnicities and languages, though. It is one of the most visited places in Poland and welcoming to tourists worldwide.

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July 13, 2019
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The Church of Peace

The evangelical Church of Świdnica in southern Poland is truly something extraordinary. It was built after the Peace of Westfalen (hence called Church of Peace), which followed a long battle between Catholics and Evangelicals in the German-speaking countries. The Catholic emperor Ferdinand II. won, but he had to make some concessions to the evangelical communities. Some reformed communities were allowed to build their own churches, but only outside the city walls, and they had to be constructed almost entirely of wood within one year. Three communities rose to the occasion, and two churches from the early 18th century still exist, the one in Świdnica being the largest and most opulent. Since 2001, the sacral building has been a UNESCO World Heritage sight.

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Posted
July 6, 2019
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The Centennial Hall

The Centennial Hall (pl. Hala Stulecia, dt. Jahrhunderthalle) is one of three UNESCO sights in Silesia, Poland. It was built in the early 20th century by the renowned German architect Max Berg in Wroclaw / Breslau. The monument is accompanied by the Iglica, a needle-like monument built in 1948, a beautiful pergola, and a large fountain.

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February 4, 2018
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Kracow 2017 AD

Usually, I don’t use as much processing, but looking at my pictures from Cracow last year, I felt inspired to work on them a bit. Especially interesting for me were the red colors of the city’s historic buildings, and I searched for a way to bring them more to the front while giving the pictures a more classic black-and-white look at the same time. Three of them (pictures 1, 3, 4) show the Wawel, the former castle hill of the Polish kings, and an important national monument of the country.

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