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Helga Paris was born in Gollnow (Pommern) in 1938, a photographer who became known for her everyday and socially critical photographs in East Germany. The following photographs are just a few that reminded me so much my background growing up in Germany of the 70s and 80s, the melancholic mood that was so omnipresent in (more)
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This is the last of my routes in and in the area of my old hometown Mönchengladbach. It leads into the same direction as the previous Niederkrüchten route, but follows different paths leading to Waldniel. Waldniel is one of several districts in the municipality of Schwalmtal/Viersen.
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The following is another of my favorite routes. It starts at the Volkgarten park and Niers river again, leads east straight through Korschenbroich, passes Kleinenbroich and Büttgen, the A57 Autobahn and continues to the Rhine river at Rheinuferstrasse. This viewpoint is 735 kilometers from the Rhine river’s origin. The (more)
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The last route went east to Mönchengladbach’s neighbor Korschenbroich — the following route will lead through the western neighbor Niederkrüchten, a municipality in the district of Viersen. Living in Baltimore nowadays I haven’t ridden any of these routes for quite a long time, but my memories of the Niederkrüchten (more)
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The following is a compact little route around my old “neighborhood” – well, sort of. My old home is close to the Volksgarten park and Schloss Rheydt, the old manor-house that already appeared in many of the previous routes. Korschenbroich is the next neighbor town east of Mönchengladbach, situated (more)
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In my last blog entry I wrote about the first cycling route along the Niers river from its origin near Erkelenz to the Volksgarten park near the manor-house Schloss Rheydt. The following second route continues from there along the Niers north toward the airport of Mönchengladbach. It follows Grenzweg (more)
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The Niers is a 117.7 kilometer long river that originates near Erkelenz, south of Mönchengladbach. It flows through Mönchengladbach, Viersen, Wachtendonk, Geldern and Goch before flowing into the Meuse in Gennep, just across the border with the Netherlands. The following two bicycle routes don’t follow the entire length of (more)
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This approximately 50 kilometer long route has always been one of my favorites. It just felt right from the beginning to the end. It offers a bit of everything. Some areas are challenging, others relaxing, beautiful, fun, thoughtful, historical, sad, interesting or impressive. Some segments are perfect for (more)
