Obendr
Marktpl. 2
64283 Darmstadt, Germany
This restaurant locates at the top floor of Henschel with indoor and outdoor seatings. The view is great: looking out to the Ernst-Ludwigs-Platz and the Marktplz / Market Place.
Ernst-Ludwigs-Platz
Statue of Ludwig/Louis IV (1837-92).
The plaza is a few step east from the Luisenplatz, named after Landgrave Ernst Ludwig (1667-1739) since 1860. The major buildings are the White Tower and the facade of the Residenzschloss / Stadtschloss, which is the former seat of the landgraves and from 1806 to 1919 of the Grand Dukes of Hesse-Darmstadt. Now, the
Luisenplatz
Luise Square is the city center with shops, trams and buses. It was named after Grand Duchess Luise Henriette Caroline (1761-1829), wife of Ludwig I of Hesse-Darmstadt, in 1820. A few step east is the Ernst-Ludwigs-Platz.
Poke Bowl; Central Station
Hessisches Landesmuseum
Friedenspl. 1
64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Hessian State Museum is next to the Der Herrngarten and at one the end of Ernst-Ludwigs-Platz. A comic strip “American Heiner” (25.03-19.06.2022) is on display
The Darmstadt Mastodon is an American and a sensation in the history of paleontology. In 1801 it was the first mounted skeleton in North America and it was so important that president Thomas Jefferson regarded its excavation as a national matter and even Alexander von Humboldt visited it at the end of his American Journey in 1804.
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Frankfurt 2022
The hair on these two mini statues always remind me of Kim Jong-un. His latest antic is to expand his nuclear arsenal. NYT North Korea Holds Military Parade With Nuclear Threat.
Obviously, he’s showing off his newest intercontinental ballistic missile.
Really?
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