Fallschirmjäger in Russia - Page 4

AntEater · 07-23-07, 12:21 PM

Ok, I suppose the castle density in the southern half of Germany is higher than anywhere else in the world, except maybe Scotland. Look up www.burgtour.de for a very incomplete and regionally biased list of castles, ruins and remains.
For my first years, I spent every vacation with my grandparents climbing up and down Windeck Castle in Weinheim/Bergstrasse.
Today, I know Windeck is nothing special at all, but in my youth this ruin was every story of Knights and heroism and so. I suppose today's parents would get hysterical when their children would climb the same walls and go down the same dungeons I did, even though it was only around 1985.

But the drei Gleichen is simply a magnificent sight, even from the Autobahn.
First time I saw them it was enroute to Berlin, on a sunny January morning with snow.

Smaragdadler · 07-23-07, 01:45 PM

As 'Miss Thuringia Castle' i would vote for the Leuchtenburg at Kahla.

But that with the Auobahn (A4) and the Drei Gleichen is right. It's really a fantastic sight. Even at night because the castles are lightet with floodlights. Even better is to drive the A71 between Suhl and Arnstadt through the Turingian Forest. (Thüringer Waldautobahn) There are 5 or 6 Tunnels, one the 'Rennsteigtunnel' is the longest in Germany. And between the tunnels are huge bridges over whole valleys - would be something for games like 'Need of Speed'.

--> http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/tour_germany/thuringia.htm

geetrue · 07-23-07, 02:12 PM

That would make a nice greeting card Smaragdadler, thanks.

Smaragdadler · 07-23-07, 03:05 PM

Big online-archiv of castle fotos (not just Thuringia):
http://www.digitalstock.de/kategorie...id=&abilder=32

mbthegreat · 07-23-07, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

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Originally Posted by Skybird

"Click top right on - what...!?"

I have not looked it up. But with my Zonen-School-Russian i would say it means the english "Slideshow" (Bilderfolge [weiter]) in russian (the word more or less in cyrillic letters). I mean really 'slideshow' but in 'russian'.
If you take the cyrillic letters: "s l e d u jou schtsch a ja"

I'm really shure, but I could be also wrong, of course.

It means "next", just so you know like. sledooshtaya would proabably be a better phonetic spelling.

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 06:20 AM

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Originally Posted by mbthegreat

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Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

If you take the cyrillic letters: "s l e d u jou schtsch a ja"
I'm really shure, but I could be also wrong, of course.

It means "next", just so you know like. sledooshtaya would proabably be a better phonetic spelling.

You are right, of course. I just 'spelled' the letters it in German...
But means it really 'next' in russian? I still think it comes from English 'slideshow'...

PS: google says:
следующая to English -> "next"
but also
'Slideshow' to Russian -> Слайдшоу
nächste to English -> next
nächste to Russian -> следующий

It really has nothing to do in no way with 'slideshow'? :hmm:
So I have translated it 'right' - but was only 'a blind Курица, who had found a corn...'?

mbthegreat · 07-26-07, 10:11 AM

I can very much asure you that it means next, in fact your German to Russian shows that as well. Cледующий is just the masculine of следующая.

AntEater · 07-26-07, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

Big online-archiv of castle fotos (not just Thuringia):
http://www.digitalstock.de/kategorie...id=&abilder=32

That's one of my favorites, castle Eltz.
Never destroyed, never even surrendered, still in possesion of the very family that build it. A so called "Ganerbenburg", which means that it is serveral castles in one, with all branches of the family living in the same castle.
Eltz is in Rheinland-Pfalz near the Mosel river, upriver from Koblenz, I think. Has been a while since I was there.
There's the ruins of a smaller fortress on the other side of the valley called "trutz dem Eltz" which was build when the castle was besieged in the middle ages..

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by mbthegreat

I can very much asure you that it means next, in fact your German to Russian shows that as well. Cледующий is just the masculine of следующая.

So 'it' really has NOTHING to do with the english WORD 'slideshow'?
'следующая' was the russian word for 'next' since - ... ?

(Nothing wrong with that for me - i had russian in school, long ago, - but that was it...

ja lljubljou
tei ljoublisch
on (ona, ono) ljoublit

meij ljoublim
tei ljoublischet (?)
oni ljoubljat...

(that's all, what is left of my по-немецки -schkola-russian...)

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by AntEater

That's one of my favorites, castle Eltz.
...

Yes. I like it too. (just the look of it - was never there...)

mbthegreat · 07-26-07, 11:22 AM

I have an A-Level in russian, you are just going to have to trust me on this one, and my russian dictionary agrees:

Cледующий: following, next.

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 11:37 AM

'dostrobrimilschtschatischtschjinost' means "Sehenswürdigkeiten' - (famous) sights in a town... [I'm really proud to "know" this one] and 'pamnjatnik' means monument. That's all (more ore less), what's left...
So, I believe you.

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 12:24 PM

@ "AntEater":
I have posted some of my castle-fotos in this subsim-thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=Thuringia
(Wachsenburg - one of the three Gleichen - the only not in ruins...)

mbthegreat · 07-26-07, 12:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smaragdadler

'dostrobrimilschtschatischtschjinost' means "Sehenswürdigkeiten' - (famous) sights in a town... [I'm really proud to "know" this one] and 'pamnjatnik' means monument. That's all (more ore less), what's left...
So, I believe you.

lol, that is about the first word we learn in Russian at my school, it is just so hilariously long, especailly compared to the English

Smaragdadler · 07-26-07, 12:50 PM

Some more castle (ruins) pics taken by myself:
It shows the ruins of Castle Hohnstein on the southern Harz:

07-23-07, 12:21 PM	#46
AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ok, I suppose the castle density in the southern half of Germany is higher than anywhere else in the world, except maybe Scotland. Look up www.burgtour.de for a very incomplete and regionally biased list of castles, ruins and remains. For my first years, I spent every vacation with my grandparents climbing up and down Windeck Castle in Weinheim/Bergstrasse. Today, I know Windeck is nothing special at all, but in my youth this ruin was every story of Knights and heroism and so. I suppose today's parents would get hysterical when their children would climb the same walls and go down the same dungeons I did, even though it was only around 1985. But the drei Gleichen is simply a magnificent sight, even from the Autobahn. First time I saw them it was enroute to Berlin, on a sunny January morning with snow. __________________

07-23-07, 02:12 PM	#48
geetrue Cold War Boomer Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Walla Walla Posts: 2,837 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	That would make a nice greeting card Smaragdadler, thanks. __________________

07-23-07, 01:45 PM	#47
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	As 'Miss Thuringia Castle' i would vote for the Leuchtenburg at Kahla. But that with the Auobahn (A4) and the Drei Gleichen is right. It's really a fantastic sight. Even at night because the castles are lightet with floodlights. Even better is to drive the A71 between Suhl and Arnstadt through the Turingian Forest. (Thüringer Waldautobahn) There are 5 or 6 Tunnels, one the 'Rennsteigtunnel' is the longest in Germany. And between the tunnels are huge bridges over whole valleys - would be something for games like 'Need of Speed'. --> http://www.itcwebdesigns.com/tour_germany/thuringia.htm

07-23-07, 03:05 PM	#49
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Big online-archiv of castle fotos (not just Thuringia): http://www.digitalstock.de/kategorie...id=&abilder=32

07-26-07, 10:11 AM	#52
mbthegreat Bosun Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 900 yards off your port side Posts: 61 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I can very much asure you that it means next, in fact your German to Russian shows that as well. Cледующий is just the masculine of следующая.

07-26-07, 11:22 AM	#56
mbthegreat Bosun Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: 900 yards off your port side Posts: 61 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I have an A-Level in russian, you are just going to have to trust me on this one, and my russian dictionary agrees: Cледующий: following, next.

07-26-07, 11:37 AM	#57
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	'dostrobrimilschtschatischtschjinost' means "Sehenswürdigkeiten' - (famous) sights in a town... [I'm really proud to "know" this one] and 'pamnjatnik' means monument. That's all (more ore less), what's left... So, I believe you.

07-26-07, 12:24 PM	#58
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	@ "AntEater": I have posted some of my castle-fotos in this subsim-thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=Thuringia (Wachsenburg - one of the three Gleichen - the only not in ruins...)

07-26-07, 12:50 PM	#60
Smaragdadler XO Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Thuringia Posts: 429 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 0	Some more castle (ruins) pics taken by myself: It shows the ruins of Castle Hohnstein on the southern Harz: