Wuerzburg Sightseeing

Last Wednesday me and my friend made a trip to Germany's University City, Wuerzburg. I just find this city very interesting. As we go around walking, we saw a lot of historical buildings which I also want to share with you. Below are some information of this ancient seat of powerful princebishop's city.

Würzburg (Wuerzburg in English spelling) is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken. The regional dialect is Franconian.

Würzburg is approximately 80 minutes train journey from Frankfurt, and almost an hour from Nuremberg. Distances to the nearest cities by motorway: Frankfurt 115 km, Nuremberg 115 km, Stuttgart 150 km, Kassel 215 km.

The city of Würzburg is not included in district of Würzburg, but is its administrative seat.

Fountain In Wuerzburg

view to the Castle of Wuerzburg

The Market Square with the Chapel of Our Lady

inside the Cathedral

entrance of the Cathedral

By 1000 BC a Celtic fortification stood the site of the Fortress Marienberg. It was Christianized in 686 by the Irish missionaries Kilian, Colman and Totnan. The city is first mentioned as Vurteburch in 704. The first diocese was founded by St. Bonifatius in 742. He appointed the first bishop of Würzburg, St. Burkhard. The bishops eventually created a duchy with its center in the city, which extended in the 12th century to Eastern Franconia. The city was the seat of several Imperial diets, including the one of 1180, in which Henry the Lion was banned from the Empire and his duchy was handed over to Otto of Wittelsbach.

Bible Readings

Meditation: The Bread of Life

"I Am The Bread of Life"

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.

But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.

For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

John 6:35-40 NIV

Bible Verses

He gives us a new heart!

For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Ezekiel 36:24-27 KJV

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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

2 Corinthians 5:17,18 NIV

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Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:12-14 NASB

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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.

Trip to Trier, Germany

As we visited last time our friend in Ramstein, we happened to have a trip in Trier, Germany. I wanted to share with you a short history of Germany's oldest city. That was really a great trip. I also attached here some photos for you to enjoy viewing.

Steipe, Trier

Fachwerkhaueser, Trier

Madonna Altar in Trier's cathedral

Trier Cathedral

Market Square, Trier

variety of sausages in a Meat store in Trier

historical Porta Nigra

the big foot near Porta Nigra..another foot is found near the Bahnhof (train station)

"Trier stood one thousand and three hundred years before Rome." An inscription on the "Red House" on the main market makes this claim. Naturally it is a Medieval invention, but the statement has a historical background. Indeed, there were settlements in the Trier valley as early as the third century B.C. and Trier was the first city north of the Alps which rightly bore the designation city.

Augusta Treverorum, later Trier, was founded around 16 B.C. by the Romans under Emperor Augustus near a tribal sanctuary of the Celtic Treveri. Towards the end of the third century A.D., Emperor Diocleatian made Trier now called Treviri, a Roman imperial residence and capital of the West Roman Empire. At about the same time, Trier developed into a centre of early Christianity. Conquered in the 5th Century by the Franks, Trier was seeded to the East Frankish/German Empire when the Carolingian Empire was divided in 870. In 958, the Market Cross was erected, making the present day Main Market the centre of the Medieval City.

In the 14th Century are Archbishops became Electoral Princes of the Holy Roman Empire. They made Trier the capital of their Electoral State, a city which experienced great flowering and profound decline up to the dissolution of the Empire at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century. Trier was briefly annexed to France and became a part of Prussia in 1815. After 1945 it became a part of the state of Rhineland/Palatinate in the Federal Republic of Germany.

TRIER TODAY

Trier is a Bishop's seat, a cultural, traffic and economic hub of the state; it is a University City with a harbor on the Mosele water way, site of well-known industrial companies, a wine cultivation and wine trading centre, a shopping, tourist and conference city. Trier has around 100,000 inhabitants.

Bible Verses

If God is for us, who shall stand against us?

Whoever listens to me will live in safety
and be at ease, without fear of harm.

Proverbs 1:33 NIV

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They will no longer be a prey to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will live securely, and no one will make them afraid.

I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

Then they will know that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people, declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 34:28-30 NASB

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The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?

The LORD is the strength of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes,
came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Though an host should encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear:
though war should rise against me,
in this will I be confident.

Psalm 27:1-3 KJV

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Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift:
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God
is the object of our faith; the only faith
that saves is faith in Him.

Many Wives

Just happened to read this in my email tonight and wanted to share it with you. 
Hope you enjoy reading it!!! Have fun!!!!

Many Wives
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A little boy was attending his first wedding.

After the service, his cousin asked him,
"How many women can a man marry?"

"Sixteen," the boy responded.

His cousin was amazed that he had an answer so quickly.
"How do you know that?"

"Easy," the little boy said.

"All you have to do is add it up, like the pastor said,

4 better, 4 worse, 4 richer, 4 poorer."

New Year in Ramstein

during our afternoon walking at Ramstein

I wrote in my blog before that I spent New Year with friends in Ktown. I also mentioned that it was the first time I spent it without my husband. During our stay there, we went to some places like Trier, the oldest city in Germany. That was really very nice. Now I'm back home but still a bit busy. So just trying to update my blog here for all of you dear readers.

Here are some pictures taken during the New Year which I want to share with you. Wish everyone a very nice and relax evening! Also sending my best regards to all my friends online.

Red wine toast during New year (sorry wrong cam date)

fireworks at New Year in Ramstein

New year fireworks

Finally, I would like to extend my special thanks to our Host in Ramstein for the excellent accommodation. Thank you very much!!!