COMENIUS PROJECTGERMANY-VIERSEN

ARRIVAL AT DUSSELDORF AIRPORT

FIRST DAY AT ERASMUS VON ROTTERDAM

Headmaster welcoming the guests

ALL-PURPOSE CONFERENCE HALL

OUR COMENIUS PARTNERS

KRICKENBECKER SEENNATURAL RESERVE

INFO CENTER

The KrickenbeckerSeen, peat extraction of low marshes resulting lakes in Nettetal on the left Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia. The present form received in the period from 16th until 19th Century by peat cutting on a large scale and through the inlet river Nette.

FOUR LAKESThe lakes "HinsbeckerBruch" (water area: 37.5 hectares), "Glabbacher Bruch" (36.0 ha) "Poelvenn" (24.5 hectares) and "Schrolik" (15.5 ha) are part of the Nette. The names "Bruch" and "Venn" refer to the earlier expression of Peat Land as a swamp.

BATS

OWL is a symbol of Viersen

TYPES OF BIRDS IN KRICKEN BECKER

The lakes providehome for ducks, heron, grebes, rails,pipe singers and manyother kinds of birds.

Fish such as carp, pike and various types of white fish are numerous.

FLORA

BORSCHEMICH VILLAGE(Ghost Town)It will be excavated in the near future.Most of the inhabitants have already

moved away

MACHINES ARE AT WORK. DEMOLITION GOING ON.

CASTLE PAFFENDORFInside the castle is a museum where we

can see an exhibition presenting thehistory the soft coal and electricity

generation industry.

GIANT MACHINES: COAL EXCAVATORS

At the observationpoint we watched themining field,the rotaryexcavators: i.e giantmachines at work. They dig throughwhole villages andlandscapes to reachthe soft coalunderneath the soil. Via conveyor belts, thecoal is transportedfo power stations forprocessing..

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Every year theRhineland soft coalfield yields 100 million tonnes of coal. It is the largestAnd the mostproductive coal fieldin Europe

COAL EXCAVATORS

These giantmachines are 96 meters high and240 meters long, they weigh 13,500 tonnes.

POWER PLANTS: NEURATH AND FRIMMERSDORF

RWE- the mostimportantelectricity providerin Germanymanages themining andprocessing of thecoal, which is converted intoelectrical energy orfossil fuels.

ALTOGETHER AT THE OBSERVATION POINT

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL (DOM)

INFOHeight: 157 m

Construction started: 1248

Completed: 1880

Architectural Desing: Gothic Buried : Marie de' Medici, Ernest of Bavaria

The place in which the cathedral is situated today has been since late roman times the place where the first Christiansassembled in Cologne.

The cathedral was not only the official church of the Cologne archbishop, but also became one of the most important pilgrimage churches throughout Europe

The main scene shows the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, whose corpse rests on His mother’s knees. Above this is a depiction of the Christ’s Last Supper with His disciples

The four evangelists—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—are depicted in the lower part of the window

THE SHRINE OF THE MAGIThe Shrine of the Magi is the largest, most artistically significant, and most ambitious reliquary of the Middle Ages. The relics were brought to Cologne from Milan in 1164.The Three Magi (the three wise men or the three Holy Kings) areCaspar, Melchior, and Balthasar

COLOGNE, NORTH RHINE WESTPHALIA

COLOGNE IS THE 4TH BIGGEST CITY OF GERMANY WITH A POPULATION OF 1

MILLION PEOPLE

CHURCH IN VIERSEN

PROTESTANT CHURCH

THE PRIEST GAVE US INFORMATION ABOUT A PROTESTANT CHURCH AND ITS DIFFERENCE FROM A CATHOLIC ONE. NOTICE THAT THERE ARE NO PICTURES OR STATUES.

THE WHOLE PROJECT TEAM IN FRONT OF THE CHURCH

VIERSEN GETTING READY FOR THE EVENING

WE VISITED THE MUNICIPALITY AND HEARD THE TOWN MAYOR ABOUT

VIERSEN

NATIONAL BANK THE BULL AND THE BEAR

GOOD BYE PARTY AT SCHOOL BUILDING. EVERYBODY FELT SAD AND

HAPPY AT THE SAME TIME.

GREAT BARBECUE IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL

AND IT WAS TIME TO SAY GOOD BYEWE REALLY ENJOYED YOUR COMPANY

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING