New season
Hello friends. First day of rain in months here, it seems that autumn is finally here to stay. So a rainy Sunday in October seems appropriate to start sharing some of the images and stories accumulated over a year. Some are new and others we have already shared, but I think that we will enjoy more images of German soldiers photographed with advertisements and advertising posters....
Let´s go, mates
I want to start with a beer that was brewed in a small town in Thuringia....
Apologies, apologies. It's not this, it's not this...
Sorry. It's not this Barbarossa, it's this other Barbarossa....
Frederick Barbarossa (1122–1190), also known as Frederick I (Friedrich), was the Holy Roman Emperor from 1155 until his death 35 years later.
He was elected King of Germany in Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March 1152. He was crowned King of Italy on 24 April 1155 in Pavia and emperor by Pope Adrian IV on 18 June 1155 in Rome.
He was named Barbarossa by the northern Italian cities which he attempted to rule: Barbarossa means "red beard" in Italian; in German, he was known as Kaiser Rotbart, which in English means "Emperor Redbeard."
Frederick joined the Third Crusade and opted to travel overland to the Holy Land. In 1190, Frederick drowned attempting to cross the Saleph river, leading to most of his army abandoning the Crusade before reaching Acre.
He combined qualities that made him appear almost superhuman to his contemporaries: his longevity, his ambition, his extraordinary skills at organization, his battlefield acumen and his political perspicacity
Due to his popularity and notoriety, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, he was used as a political symbol by many movements and regimes as the Wilhelmine government in Germany, especially under Emperor Wilhelm I and the Nazism, resulting in both golden and dark legends.
Bronze equestrian statue of Emperor Barbarossa, Nuremberg
Actually I want to talk about a brand of beer whose image is that of a statue of Emperor Barbarossa that is sculpted in this monument to Kaiser Wilhelm I.
The Kyffhäuser Monument (Kyffhäuserdenkmal), also known as Barbarossa Monument, is an Emperor Willhelm I monument in the Kyffhäuser mountain range in the German state of Thuringia. It was erected from 1890 to 1896 atop the ruins of the medieval Kyffhauser Castle near Bad Frankenhausen....
Sculpture of Barbarossa at the Kyffhäuser monument in Thuringia
As we already said, this beer was made in Artern, a town in the Kyffhäuserkreis district, Thuringia, Germany. Is situated at the confluence of the rivers Unstrut and Helme, on a bend of the Unstrut, which flows through the town from the southeast to the northwest.
It is located in the north east of Thuringia, close to the border with Saxony Anhalt, and 12 km south of Sangerhausen.
The first known documented mention of Artern was as Aratora in the early 9th Century, in a register of estates at Hersfeld Abbey.
On 12 April 1945 Artern was occupied by the US Army, and in July of the same year by the Red Army. With this it became part of the Soviet occupation zone and later East Germany.
Obviously Operation Barbarossa... was something else.
See you soon.
In addition to beer, tobacco is another thing that makes the life of a soldier tolerable.....
Photo of a German soldier in the town of Gol, Norway. It seems that the wooden house at the back could be a tobacco shop or a general store where tobacco was also sold.
Tiedemanns
Petteroe
Langaard
I found these images of the German occupation of the place...
In the lower left corner of this photo, we see a poster for one of the tobacco brands we are talking about: Langaard
A beer brand that we already know...
And some resting soldiers in Cologne who drink it on a terrace and then take pictures in front of the Hohenzollern Brücke...
Access road on the left bank of the Rhine towards the Hohenzollern Bridge, March 1945
Another soldiers in March 1945....
Today it is once again a great place to share a few beers with friends
Gambrinus is a legendary European culture hero celebrated as an icon of beer, brewing, joviality, and joie de vivre.
Typical representations in the visual arts depict him as a rotund, bearded duke or king, holding a tankard or mug, and sometimes with a keg nearby.
Although legend attributes to him no special powers to bless brews or to make crops grow, tellers of old tall tales are happy to adapt them to fit Gambrinus. Gambrinus stories use folklore motifs common to European folktales, such as the trial by ordeal. Some imagine Gambrinus as a man who has an enormous capacity for drinking beer.
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