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Wuppertal, a mixture of outgoing metropolis and cosy village richly adorned with stucco facades and handsome half- timbered houses, offers interesting surprises: a total of 8,723
It has a population of 360,000. The birthplace of Friedrich Engels a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital after Marx's death. The home of Bayer chemicals ( Aspirin), the first concentration camp was built here.

Manay Tess,

share naman plz ug mga pictures diha sa Wuppertal beh?  Thanks!

Day Grazie,
I´m banging my head, I can´t follow the guidelines of Inday Hazel, bolok gajud kining akong utok brain. Please google the Schwebebahn.
 I will try to post more about Wuppertal which is very rich in history and culture.
One that is worth mentioning is the Barmer Erklaerung ( Barmen Communique) that expresses the separation of the church and the state, and that during NS (National Socialism with Adolf HItler as the godfather) regime, the Protestant religion abhors the politics of the this era 1934.
Manay Tess

Thanks, Manay Tess, imo man diay gi email pod.  Anyway, mag praktis ra unya ta aning pag download nimo ug pictures sa photobucket.  If you have ym, lemme know plz.  Later na lang of the week kay naa pa koy lakaw taud2x dili maayo maputol atong tutorial.   :)

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The Schwebebahn ( Picture comes later),

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is a suspension railway in Wuppertal, Germany. Its full name is the “Eugen Langen Monorail Suspension Railway” (Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen). Designed by Eugen Langen, who originally planned to build it in Berlin, it was built in 1900, opened in 1901 and is still in use today as a local transport system in the city. It is the oldest monorail system in the world.

The suspension railway travels along a route 13.3 kilometres long, about 12 metres above the surface of the river Wupper between Oberbarmen and Sonnborner Straße[1] (10 km[2]) and approximately 8 m above the city streets, between Sonnborner Straße and Vohwinkel[1] (3.3 km).[2] At one point the railway crosses the A46 motorway. The entire trip takes about 30 minutes.[2]

75,000 commuters uses this means of transportations during working days.

Thanks Inday Grace for being merciful to an old Bol-anon like me, I think I need time to concentrate and start from the very beginning as what inday Hazel instructed me, God Bless!

Manay Tess
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Pina Bausch of Wuppertal .., this eccentric artist heightens tension in her theater pieces because she contradicts the use of beautiful faces and figures. The characters are uneven, some are stout, some are short, a man keeps slapping a woman and demands her to do the same. I always get a headache watching her programme.  This is avant garde for some, and she is well-known and highly decorated. ( Picture comes later)

Schwebebahn along the Wupper river, behind the Bayer Chemicals

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Philippine "Pina" Bausch dance Theater foundress from Wuppertal, whose eccentric theater pieces are well known for its unusual figures.

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More Schwebebahn Photos
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Along Alter Markt

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Along the river Wupper

How does Bayer Chemicals´advertisement look like before?

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The Bayer chemicals was one of the factories who helped  the famous gas chambers

Manay Tess, the photos you posted were unavailable. Did you removed it from flickr?

you are not that old. age is only a number.

Inday Gingah,

I deleted some pics from my Flickr photostream, mao nga nangawagtang pod sila dinhi sa Forum, anyway nakit-an naman ninyo, magbutang na sabko ug lain aron malingaw mo.

Manay tess

Kemna the first concentration camp in Germany!

The Concentration camp of Kemna was located at Wuppertal between Beyenburg and Oberbarmen in Germany.

History
The camp functioned  at the end of June 1933 and on January 19th, 1934. It was placed under the responsibility of the group of SA of Duesseldorf and of the police force of Wuppertal with the southern of the District of Duesseldorf. To 1.100 prisoners were locked up there under miserable conditions . The torture and arbitrary violence were the order of the day to the detriment of the prisoners.
They were mostly political oppositionists,  members of the Communist party of Germany and social democrat Party Germany which also includes the areas of  Duisburg, Duesseldorf, Krefeld and Essen.
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SA,( Sturmabteilung ), this is the paramilitary unit which guards the prisoners

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The old picture was the original concentration camp in Kemna

Kemna at present;
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The present landmark of the old concentration camp!
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A closer view of the Wuppertal Schwebebahn

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This means of transportation travels 13.3 km. and is used daily for about 75,000 commuters Monday-Friday,  on 5 minute takt.

foto from Gabriele Zeidler

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Autumn scenery, Wupper river between Solingen, Remscheid and Wuppertal ( these are the 3 towns composing the Bergischen land).

Son of Wuppertal, Friedrich Engels

Born: 28 November 1820
Birthplace: Barmen,Wuppertal  Germany
Died: 5 August 1895 (cancer)
Best Known As: Karl Marx's collaborator and editor
Friedrich Engels moved from Germany to England in 1842, where he worked as a manager in a factory. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, which suggested that the poor working class would only benefit if they fought for socialism. Engels had met Karl Marx in 1844 and together they wrote the Communist Manifesto, predicting ultimate victory for the proletariat. After 1848 Engels returned to England and financially supported Marx, whose works he also edited and translated.
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Military History Companion: Friedrich Engels
Engels, Friedrich (1820-95), political economist, military writer, and theorist; friend, colleague, and adviser of Karl Marx; and founder of communism. Born at Wuppertal on 28 November 1820, he began writing political tracts in 1839. In November 1842 he visited Manchester in Britain and became a member of the Chartist movement, and first met Marx in Paris in 1844. His experiences led to writing The Situation of the Working Class in Britain (1844-5) and, in turn, The Communist Manifesto (1848). Further experience of the 1848-50 revolutions in Europe and particularly in Germany led to the writing of Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany (1851-2). In 1850 he returned to Manchester where he worked in a commercial firm, partly to subsidize Marx.

In 1870 Marx and Engels attended the Congress of the First International in London. In 1871 Engels welcomed the Paris Commune, fitting it into his view of progress through capitalism towards a dictatorship of the proletariat. After Marx's death in 1883, Engels completed and published the unfinished second and third volumes of Das Kapital.

Engels was an expert analyst of military affairs and, in particular, of the mid-19th-century revolution in military affairs and the role of industry and arms manufacture. Marx considered that he had ‘made the study of military questions his speciality’. Many of the articles attributed to Marx owe much to Engels. Their division of interest was fairly clear cut, Marx studying the political essence of wars and their character, Engels, the material basis of military affairs and the nature and origin of wars and armies.

Engels's detailed study of military affairs was fired by the Crimean and American civil wars, although much of his military analysis dates from later life. He realized that future wars between major powers would be total war, and would depend to an unprecedented degree on technology which, in turn, depended on a nation's industrial base. In 1892 he wrote ‘from the moment warfare became a branch of the grande industries (ironclad ships, rifled artillery, quickfiring and repeating cannon, repeating rifles, steel covered bullets, smokeless powder, etc.) la grande industrie, without which all these things cannot be made, became a political necessity’. In a letter of 1888 he prophesied the nature of war accurately enough. ‘No war is any longer possible for Prussia-Germany except a world war, and a war of an extension and violence hitherto undreamt of.’ The study of war could not be extracted from its political economic and diplomatic context—as he wrote, ‘diplomacy is higher than strategy’.

Engels's views on the military revolution taking place at the time were sound enough, but hardly unique, and he would probably not have gone down in history as a great military thinker and analyst were it not for his friend Marx. It is questionable whether either of them would be remembered today had their work not been taken up by Lenin. But for the study of the 19th-century revolution in warfare his work is important.

— Christopher Bellamy

Welcome to the University of Wuppertal
Founded in 1972, the University of Wuppertal (UW) is still young. Its twin goals are academic excellence in its individual disciplines and the consistent development of the interface between these disciplines and the world of practical experience – in a word, the transfer of knowledge and technological know-how.

With a combination of disciplines that is somewhat unconventional for a German university, UW offers interesting possibilities – for example in subject combinations for teaching degrees, in interdisciplinary cooperations between the Faculties of Engineering and Economics, or in the field of Safety Engineering, where UW's degree program is unique in Germany.

The university's reputation as a force in business and industry goes beyond its role in regional economics. Its business startup and marketing program provides young entrepreneurs with a first class springboard that once again in 2007 – as in 2005 – won Wuppertal number one position in the German university rankings. ( mao kini ang iningles sa German)
statistics:
total number of students 14,134
employess  1224 278 Professors)
Research assistants  683
Student fee per semester 500 Euro
Website www.uni-wuppertal.de

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This is how a classroom looks like, comparable to Audio-Visual room
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Historical Stadthalle Wuppertal

A star attraction overlooking the town The Historische Stadthalle Wuppertal, one of the most remarkable concert
halls and conference centres in Europe and a member of the Historic Con-
ference Centres of Europe (HCCE), looks down over the town from a green
hillside. There is nowhere else quite like it in Germany.

It was built in 1900 in the magnificent, opulent style characteristic
of the period of Emperor William II and reopened in 1995 after masterly
renovation, with the result that its original splendour and unique acoustics
are now combined with state-of-the-art technical equipment.

Take a look at the sheer beauty and numerous possibilities offered
by this marvellous building. Welcome.
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The Müngsten Bridge is the highest steel railroad bridge in Germany. The bridge is 107 metres (350 ft) high and spans the valley of the river Wupper, connecting the cities of Remscheid and Solingen. This stretch is part of railroad route nr. 458 between Wuppertal and Solingen, used exclusive by line RB 47, aka "the Muengstener". Originally the building was named Kaiser-Wilhelm-Brücke (Emperor Wilhelm Bridge) to honour Emperor Wilhelm I. After the end of the monarchy the bridge was named after the close settlement Müngsten, which is close to the city limits of Solingen, Remscheid and Wuppertal. Today, the settlement no longer exists, so Müngsten is simply a landmark.

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Manay ka interesting!

i like Germany jud oi!

I will feature next Solingen, the home of best cutlery, nail cutters, knives and scissors ug lain pang mga mahait nga pulong! ;D

ps

Belle/and friends  try to come on 2014 to Aachen because of the Heiligtum European Pilgrimage Site

This urban development had been augmented not only by the abundant water resources of the Aachen Basin, commerce in textiles and the working of brass and copper, but above all by the European pilgrimages to Aachen’s renowned sacred relics: the robe of Mary, the swaddling clothes and loincloth of Jesus, and the decapitation cloth of John the Baptist. This display of sacred objects from Charlemagne’s treasury of relics made Aachen a cynosure for pilgrims: they came primarily from the Balkans - Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia - but also from Poland and Bohemia, as well as the North Sea and Baltic regions. Aachen developed into the most important pilgrims’ shrine north of the Alps, and was frequently also used as a collecting-point or stopping-place en route to Santiago di Compostela. From the time of the great mid-fourteenth century plague, the solemn exhibition of the costly relics was carried out in prescribed sequence and repeated every seven years (cf the ‘Aachen Sabbath Year’). In the interim, the objects of veneration were kept in the Shrine of Our Lady, a masterpiece crafted in 1238 by Aachen’s goldsmiths.

I was able to see this last year. This event is every 7 years. You could see the materials morag katsa, you could reflect their humble apparel, and our present ways.


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left-right; swaddling clothes of baby Jesus, robe of  the Blessed Virgin Mary, decapitation cloth of St John the Baptist and the loincloth of dead Jesus.

Manay akong amo was born in Aachen the birthplace of Charlemagne...

bad daw na si charlemagne, Manay.

yeah mo anha man jud ko pohon...

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Universities in Germany are using E-chalks, 
 The electronic chalkboard combines all the advantages of a traditional chalkboard with the functionality of a modern distance education tool. The lecturer writes on the electronic board, seamlessly integrating pictures and interactive programs from the web. Both can be loaded directly from the harddisk or the Internet. E-Chalk also includes algebraic formula manipulation, together with function plotting via handwriting recognition. The lecture can be followed at the lecture room or remotely through the web. Only a browser is needed to receive the audio, video, and the board image. All lectures are stored on a server for viewing on demand. E-Chalk also generates a printable version of the board (PDF) so that students do not have to copy the board content any more.
 Advantages of the system

The chalkboard has proven to be a superior teaching tool over the years. Its contrast is good, even in large lecture rooms. The lecturer has to think aloud while writing on the board. So the students have enough time to understand an idea or formula, ask questions and reflect on the contents of the lecture. Using slides, the lecturer tends to proceed too fast and overwhelms the students. E-chalk is therefore just a chalkboard, but a state of the art one, that combines the traditional advantages of chalk with the interactivity of distance eduation software.

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Kanang Wuppertal, naa diha ang dig site & museum sa Neanderthals.

Kini rabang Neanderthals daghan kaayong theories nga scientific ug religious. Sa scientists view, sila mga different species sa tao kay na una sila ug gawas sa modern man. Pero based pod sa scientific findings, daghan kaayong facts nga mi tugma sa nakasulat sa Bible. Like super strength, longetivity and ang ilang mga grave murag gi agian ug flood ug ang uban na tabonan ug landslide.

interesado ko ana Macky...

kay i really dont believe in creation...

i wish i could live longer enough to answer my own questions...

Para nako letteral ra kaayo ang mga creationist sa pag interpret nila sa Bible. Ang power sa Ginoo dili nimo masukod sa human logic. It takes millions of years to develop a single cell. Kitang mga tao, ubos kaayo atong concept sa matter, time & space. So ang tanan nga matter sa universe is a mystery kanatong mga tao.

Infinite ang possibilities sa universe ug kon unsa kanang naa sa imong imagination karon, it actually exist in real time inside the universe.

So, kung mo ingon ang mga creationist nga sakto sila ug sayop ang science, at the end sayop gihapon sila kay kung imong limitahan ang possibility sa science, mura lang pod ug imong gi limitahan ang power sa Ginoo.

So ako mismo wala ka sabot ug nag libog sa akong nag toyok toyok nga explanation. Hehehe.

Toyok jud pero masabtan kaajo bisan kadtong maglisud ug sabot, kay ugbok kaajo ang point sa imong buot ipasabut...

Vintage tram and vintage costumes

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..with a modern commuter train passing by. If you look sharp you see that there are neither tracks nor catenary wire for this tramway. This is because the last tramway line in Wuppertal has been abandoned some twenty years ago. On behalf of the annual state festival of Northrhine Westphalia this historic streetcar has been set up under the Sonnborn viaduct. The idea was to replicate a historic scene which is documented on picture postcards from the early 20th century which show four different means of transportation in one image: A car of Wuppertal's unique suspension monorail, a tramway car, a steam powered train and an airship. In the morning of the first festival day police cars spoiled the scene but gave an interesting contrast to the old streetcar which is preserved in a traction museum nearby.

Oi Si Bayat naa ing ana nga attire!!!

Bayaaat!

Nice and butifull Germany.
I will share to you a tropical dusk in tagaytay to enjoy nature buty in the other part of the world:

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Mas beauty yan Wad kasi sariling atin...

Mis Dabz, hwag mag i lab my own ha. Tayong lahat ay butipol.

kanindot bitaw sa lasang oi! lasang jud na sha Wad?

yup its a virgin forest conserved by the gov of tagaytay city (ma hilig sila mo tagay labinas tatay -tagaytay)

Wuppertal belongs to Bergland area as its main town. Solingen which is a neighboring town is rich in local culture like the Castle Brug;
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Tuetonic Knights
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Hall for Knights (Ritter Saal)

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Facade of the Cutlery Museum Solingen

Sorts of shapes/frames knife manufactured in Solingen;
Drop point shape
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Clip-Point shape
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Bowieknife
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skinner shape
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dolch knife
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utility knife
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tanto knife
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sheep´s foot shape
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sorry for the double postings

Laurel and Hardy Museum in Solingen

Vera und Wolfgang Günther
Only after their wedding in the year 1970 Vera Schuitemaker, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Wolfgang Guenther, born in Solingen, Germany discovered their mutual love for the cinema, particularly to the American Slapstick silent movie in general and their special love for Stan & Ollie.

With heart and soul the two collected the exhibits in the whole world, and not only Vera greats the visitors when they come in, she is also responsible for the arrangement, the decoration and the cosy atmosphere.
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One day without laughter is a lost day!

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on top of the eifel tower, panoramic view of paris

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schöbrunn palace, vienna austria

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UNESCO Heritage site, Maulbronn Kloster, Maulbronn Germany

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Stockholm, Sweden  ( My second home)

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Inday Pinangga maayo kay naka-abot ka sa Maulbronn!

Founded in 1838, it emerged from a settlement, built about a monastery, which belonged to the Neckar Community in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1886, Maulbronn officially became a city and was an administrative center until 1938. The return of many displaced persons following the Second World War significantly raised the city's population.

Of particular note is the city's monastery, Maulbronn Abbey, which features prominently in Hermann Hesse's novel, Beneath the Wheel. The formerly Cistercian monastery has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.

Legend has it that the city was founded by monks who followed a mule to valley with a source of clean water. The valley was also blessed with large deposits of soft sandstone for building. The monks built the original abbey and erected a fountain to honor the mule. The cities name means mule fountain.

Just few kilometers away from my boyfriends place manay.  Naa pay daghan, wala ko nagpapic nga duol ra sa Neulingen.

Karlsruhe Schloss, Heidelberg Schloss, Bruchsal Schloss.  etc.

Duol ra kaayo ang Wuppertal sa Dortmund Manay, pero wala gyud ko kaadto.

Nice pictures, Ayessa. Thanks!

Oh, I also like your wedge! Angayan kaayo ka.

Pirmi mag mini si Ayessa, dili raba manapo, klaro ang tanga!
She got lovely long legs, compare to mine borakon jamo.

ps
I know you always love to stay where your love one is, Jens spoils you.

take care Indayon.

salamat manay.  nangumusta si ate ellen.

This afternoon, we have had a Filipino Catholic mass in Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Elberfeld. Our regular priest Fr Jun de Ocampo SVD was not able to come due to teeth extractions and we had Fr Eufemio Sombrio SVD, a Bol-anon from Loon.  We were happy to have him as our mass celebrant and he has a strong rapport to us, how we wished he will served the Filipino community in North Rhine-westfalia!

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Hofelina, Fr Mio and Melvin Gonzales
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Si Fr Mio gi-kopotan sa mga  Pinay mga bisaya
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Fr Mio´s homily was on loving one another.

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Die Schwebebahn

The suspension railway is a monorail suspended from a steel supporting frame with a rail built underneath it. It hangs on wheels which are driven by electric motor operating at 600 volts DC.

The supporting frame and tracks are made out of 486 pillars and bridgework sections. The terminuses at each end of the line also serve as train depots and reversers.

The current fleet consists of twenty-seven[5] two-car trains[1] built in the 1970s. The cars are 24 metres long and have 4 doors. One carriage can seat 48 and stand approximately 130 passengers The top speed is 60 km/h and the average speed is 27 km/h.

The Kaiserwagen, the original train used by Emperor Wilhelm II during a test ride on 24 October 1900, is still operated on special occasions and for charter events. Wikipedia

Beautiful pictures..I used to have a fraulein friend from my previous job before..Her place is named St.Pauli or something like that, invited me for Octoberfest.. :-X

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A mass was said today in St Anthony Church which was dedicated to the town people who perished (6,000) last world War II, it was a solemn moment to remind everyone that war is not a solution and no war should  happen again in a German soil. Nationalism and a form of totalitarian regime like that of Hitler should never be forgotten.

Fronleichnam in Wuppertal.
Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) is a Western Catholic feast. It is also celebrated in some Anglican  and Lutheran churches. It honors the Eucharist, which believers hold to be the actual body and blood of Christ, and as such it does not commemorate a particular event in Jesus' life. It is held on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, in some places, on the following Sunday. Its celebration on a Thursday is meant to associate it with institution by Jesus of the Eucharist during the Last Supper, commemorated on Maundy Thursday, and this is the first free Thursday after Paschaltide.  In the Ordinary form[clarification needed] of the Roman rite of the Catholic Church, the feast is officially known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

In many English-speaking countries, Corpus Christi is transferred to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday by both Catholics and Anglicans. At the end of the Mass, it is customary to have a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament (often outdoors), followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Wikipedia

God blessed us with a warm sunny day, here are some pictures I took today;

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Children who made their first communion are also present.

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The Blessed Body and Blood of our Lord, Corpus Christi!

The Wupper river;

Wuppertal (German pronunciation: [ˈvʊpɐtaːl]) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Wupper river south of the Ruhr area. Population 361,333 (2005).

Two thirds of the total municipal area is green belt: woods, meadows, gardens and fields. From any part of the city it is only a ten-minute walk to one of the public parks or shady woodland path. At the same time it is a major industrial centre including such industries as: textiles, metallurgy, chemicals, medicine (Bayer), electric, rubber, vehicles and printing equipment. One of the most famous pain-killers, Aspirin, was invented in Wuppertal by Bayer.

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy is located in this city.

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