Venice (AP) – The bookstore "Acqua Alta" in Venice these days not only has a symbolic name, but has also been through a lot beforehand. Because floods penetrate here regularly, innumerable books lie in bathtubs or in a gondola for protection.
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But the employees have never experienced anything like in the past few days. The tide sloshed into tubs and ships, and books sailed away in the water. "We have to throw away hundreds"said employee Chiara on the phone. Helpers tried to save what can be saved. "It’s hard days, but we keep going."
It’s not just books that have found their end in the mixture of sea, rain and dirty water. There are instruments, valuable writings, mosaic stones, carnival masks, paintings, gondolas, historical furniture and wooden floors, marble floors and walls. The loss cannot be linked to individual cultural assets. It is not the individual museums, galleries, palaces, churches and craft shops that make up this city. Venice is a total work of art, a Unesco protected human heritage. Every house in the historic center is a work of art.
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Of course, the politicians are now symbolically using St. Mark’s Square with St. Mark’s Basilica for their visits in rubber boots. They make serious mines, post pictures of themselves in dark green waterspouts, and vow to do everything for the protection of themselves "most beautiful city in the world" to do. Even players from the Italian national soccer team stopped by at St. Mark’s Basilica at the weekend. The crypt was completely flooded. The whole cathedral suffered damage, but none "irreparable"as Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini explained.
But lesser-known churches were also affected. "At least 60 to 70 of a total of 120 were under water"said the city’s monument protection officer, Emanuela Carpani. Every second church is damaged.
In the Basilica dei Santi Maria e Donato on the island of Murano, volunteers cleaned the Byzantine mosaic from the 12th century. Because the poison is the sea water. If the water withdraws, the salt remains and slowly eats away at marble and mosaics. "The risk of decomposition is great"said Carpani.community service hours essay examples In addition, there are poisonous dirt particles in the water that come from cruise ships.
"When you see how streets are turned into raging rivers and mosaics are under water, then you realize that this is a much bigger catastrophe than the television pictures show"said Minister of Culture Franceschini. It is now a "much broader, cultural approach" necessary. What he meant by that remained unclear.
But you can guess it. Venice needs an all-encompassing solution on how to deal with the consequences of climate change and rising sea levels. Although flood protection has been disputed for decades, it still does not exist. In 2021 it should really be ready for the system to be named "Cunt" goes into operation. Retractable barriers are supposed to protect the city at three entrances to the lagoon.
Many are skeptical. "It’s not about this flood. It’s not just about St. Mark’s Basilica"said the Italian art historian Salvatore Settis, who wrote the book "When Venice dies" wrote to the German Press Agency. "All of Venice sags. It is a tragic, dramatic situation. Neither the government in Rome, nor the local government, nor the municipality is doing anything about it."
Venice must also find a solution to mass tourism, to which the city is like a drug. For settis there are only radical measures. First, all large cruise ships should be banned from the lagoon immediately. "But for the mayor, the solution is to dig another canal for the big ships"he criticized. But history has shown what such an intervention in the ecosystem means: in 1966, the worst flood to date flooded Venice. Shortly before that, the "Canale Pretrolio" excavated so that the tankers can drive to the industrial port of Marghera.
Second, clarity must finally be made as to whether the flood protection project "Cunt" According to Settis, it is still up-to-date and can be completed – after all the scandals of recent years. But: "If the Berlin breakdown airport is delayed ten years, Berlin will not go under. If "Cunt" Delayed ten years, Venice goes under."
Koblenz (dpa) – The boss of the House of Hohenzollern is demanding back the former family property of Rheinfels Castle. But the Koblenz district court put a damper on Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia.
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His complaint relates to the huge walls high above St. Goar in the heart of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage. The great-great-grandson of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II was not present at the hour-long oral hearing. The Chamber plans to announce its decision on June 25th. The presiding judge Christian Stumm suspects this could also employ one or two other instances.
The Prince of Prussia, who lives in Potsdam, has sued the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the city of St. Goar and the castle hotel adjacent to the ruins. According to the mayor of St. Goar Horst Vogt (CDU), a loss of the castle would be dramatic: the city, the countryside and the hotel would have invested millions here. "Rheinfels Castle is the heart of St. Goar", emphasizes Vogt before the negotiation. "To me, it looks like a small foray by the Hohenzollern people who want to reap what they haven’t sown." The prince’s lawyer, Eckart Putzier, rejects such allegations during the trial.
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Judge Stumm emphasizes that it will be after the fall of the Empire "bound state assets" of the Prussian king went to the former crown estate administration. When Rheinfels Castle was transferred to the city of St. Goar, the company had the right to withdraw in the event of violations of monument protection or a sale, in order to preserve the walls as a cultural monument. This meant that the castle could not have fallen into the hands of the Hohenzollern family, but rather into the property of the Prussian state. Its legal successor in this case is the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.
The country’s lawyer, Bodwin Blank, accuses the Hohenzollern boss of having watched the renovation of the castle and the millions invested by the hotelier in his four-star-plus hotel and of wanting to collect the lease. According to the hotel operator Gerd Ripp, this amounts to 71,000 euros per year.
The prince’s lawyer, Putzier, rejects this. His client did not know anything about his claim to possession of Rheinfels Castle until a notary wrote to him in 2015. The Prince of Prussia is not aiming for the hotel – an agreement with Ripp is probably possible. The lawyer for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Blank, holds against it: The Hohenzollern family always knew about the entry in the land register of Rheinfels Castle – but did not take care of it for 95 years.
After the trial in a small, fully occupied courtroom, Blank and Ripp are in unison "cautiously optimistic". The Prince’s personal advisor, Daniel Hug, says on the other hand: "We do not want to comment on the ongoing proceedings."
Rheinfels is one of the largest castle ruins on the Upper Middle Rhine and is to become a central gem at the Federal Horticultural Show planned there in 2029. The complex with a tangle of tunnels is still a rehabilitation case. According to Mayor Vogt, around 15 million euros would be necessary for this. The state of Rhineland-Palatinate has pledged five million euros of this. Now the renovation is stalling because of the legal dispute: "That throws us back." For security reasons, parts of the castle are already closed to visitors without a guide. The walls were built in the 13th century and blown up by French revolutionary troops at the end of the 18th century.
Schwangau (dpa) – Neuschwanstein Castle shines in a new light – but not like in Disneyland: 47 LED spotlights were put into regular operation for the first time on Wednesday evening, according to the municipality of Schwangau.
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During the retrofitting, which cost 300,000 euros, they deliberately avoided spectacular color changes. "I looked at the replica at Disneyland Orlando, it won’t work that way." It’s about one "discreetly elegant lighting with a light theatricality"that is appropriate to the structure. Above all, the LED spotlights should save electricity and be insect-friendly.
There are two new features: The spotlights have been set so that they highlight individual elements of the structure. Every day from 10:47 p.m. to 11 p.m., the lighting is gradually switched off so that the lock slowly disappears into the darkness. "It goes to sleep"said Rinke.
The city had published a video in which scandal rapper Farid Bang admonished young people to adhere to the corona rules. There was criticism. Now the video has been removed.
After a storm of protest, Düsseldorf’s Lord Mayor Thomas Geisel (SPD) had a video with the scandal rapper Farid Bang deleted from the city’s social media channels. He was following the will of the council groups, Geisel announced on Facebook on Tuesday. "Despite all – justified – criticism of Farid Bang as a person, I see no cause for an apology"stressed the mayor, who wants to defend his office in the local elections in September.
Geisel had a video clip published by the city last Wednesday in which the Düsseldorf rapper urged young people celebrating in the old town to respect the corona rules. Farid Bang is criticized for misogynist, violence-glorifying and anti-Semitic texts. The clip, with which Geisel primarily wanted to address young men with a migration background, was criticized across the political parties and also by the Jewish community.
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Sources used: dpa news agencyOne of the best-known sections of the river in Germany is to be preserved and further developed at the same time: Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse have updated the guidelines for the Upper Middle Rhine Valley World Heritage. According to the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior, a contract to finance the update of the management plan for the castle-lined river valley was signed in Mainz on Tuesday.