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Skybird · 10-02-09, 04:58 PM

Either some place in Bavaria, in the green, a small farm or blockhouse with nearby forests and meadows and mountains and as few people around as possible, or, more likely nowadays, a "Ganghaus" in my beloved Lübeck - no way to live "gemütlicher" than there.

http://www.deutschland-panorama.de/s...s/1_182_03.php

(panorama pic, click and hold to move perspective)

The tourism bureau advertises with the fact that in Lübeck there is more historic buildings and historic architecture from the 13th-15th century than in all other old cities in Northern Germany alltogether. That's for me, since modern city design and modern architecture is not my thing. The so-called Gänge (corridors) are very typical for Lübeck. These corridors are tight and narrow and branch off from the main streets, where they break through the house fronts in often extremely small, tight, low gates. The Ganghäuser ("Corridor houses") houses are very small, often consist of only one room per floor, meaning they are essentially two or three rooms put one over the other. By description this may sound terrible, but if you have seen these places from inside and lived there (I have spend christmas holidays in several different ones), you know how gemütlich they are. Plus the charming old town of Lübeck, finding a perfect balance between old houses and modern city life in the centre of the old town, plenty of harbour pubs and bistros, the old town is an island, adding to the somewhat isolationist, protected character of the place. That's what i call living quality.

There are also bigger houses, of course, and villas in more modern parts of the city around the oldtown, in very idyllic places at the two rivers embracing the old town. When I was a small boy, we lived there for several years.

Christmas night in the oldtown is something you would not forget, in a very narrow place there are five churches with seven towers, all of them equippped with extremely well-sounding bells, let the air vibrate in all the oldtown, when you walk at night while the bells are ringing, you feel the sound giving a gentle massage to all your body, filling your inside with a sound as if made of accustic gold. I still spend christmas with my parents there, occasionally.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,818 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Either some place in Bavaria, in the green, a small farm or blockhouse with nearby forests and meadows and mountains and as few people around as possible, or, more likely nowadays, a "Ganghaus" in my beloved Lübeck - no way to live "gemütlicher" than there. http://www.deutschland-panorama.de/s...s/1_182_03.php (panorama pic, click and hold to move perspective) The tourism bureau advertises with the fact that in Lübeck there is more historic buildings and historic architecture from the 13th-15th century than in all other old cities in Northern Germany alltogether. That's for me, since modern city design and modern architecture is not my thing. The so-called Gänge (corridors) are very typical for Lübeck. These corridors are tight and narrow and branch off from the main streets, where they break through the house fronts in often extremely small, tight, low gates. The Ganghäuser ("Corridor houses") houses are very small, often consist of only one room per floor, meaning they are essentially two or three rooms put one over the other. By description this may sound terrible, but if you have seen these places from inside and lived there (I have spend christmas holidays in several different ones), you know how gemütlich they are. Plus the charming old town of Lübeck, finding a perfect balance between old houses and modern city life in the centre of the old town, plenty of harbour pubs and bistros, the old town is an island, adding to the somewhat isolationist, protected character of the place. That's what i call living quality. There are also bigger houses, of course, and villas in more modern parts of the city around the oldtown, in very idyllic places at the two rivers embracing the old town. When I was a small boy, we lived there for several years. Christmas night in the oldtown is something you would not forget, in a very narrow place there are five churches with seven towers, all of them equippped with extremely well-sounding bells, let the air vibrate in all the oldtown, when you walk at night while the bells are ringing, you feel the sound giving a gentle massage to all your body, filling your inside with a sound as if made of accustic gold. I still spend christmas with my parents there, occasionally. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.