Martin M. Miles' photos with the keyword: Flemish

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. Built of boulders, the church dates from the early 13th century. A first documented mention dates from the year 1355. After the Reformation, the church was not used at first and fell into disrepair. In 1691 it was used as a church by Huguenots who immigrated from France and the Palatinate.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The building was erected in 1890. The relief shows a hunt and a brewing scene and is "subtitled" with the sentence „Die Legende vom Bierbrauen“ (The legend of beer brewing). So maybe Gambrinus is to see on the right.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. An art nouveau/Jugendstil facade from MCMVIII (=1908).

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. Dr. Gustav Krojanker was the technical director of the shoe factory Conrad Tack & Cie (prev. upload). His house, designed by the Berlin architectural office of Arthur Korn and Siegfried Weitzmann, was built in 1925 and 1926. The house is an elongated cubic structure with two floors and a flat roof.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The founding of the mechanical shoe factory "Conrad Tack" took place in 1883. From 1888 the company operated as a general partnership under the name "Conrad Tack & Cie". 1905 the factory with 1050 employees produced around 4000 pairs of shoes a day. Until 1938, the shoe factory was one of the largest European companies in the industry. In 1946 the shoe factory became nationally owned under socialist conditions and known under the name "Roter Stern" ("Red Star"). The shoe factory was closed in 1992. After extensive renovation of the building complex, the vocational school of the district is now located here.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The Unterkirche St. Nicolai was first mentioned as a parish church in the new (low) town in 1186 as a branch church of the Oberkirche Unser Lieben Frauen.. It was built in the late 12th century as a Romanesque basilica. It has essentially remained unchanged. The church has a wide transept with two semi-circular side apses, to which the main choir, which is square in plan, also has a semi-circular apse. The building is almost free of structuring and decorative elements and therefore presents itself as a monumental example of a late Romanesque town church. Unfortunately, the church was under conservation work in 2022.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The Unterkirche St. Nicolai was first mentioned as a parish church in the new (low) town in 1186 as a branch church of the Oberkirche Unser Lieben Frauen.. It was built in the late 12th century as a Romanesque basilica. It has essentially remained unchanged. The church has a wide transept with two semi-circular side apses, to which the main choir, which is square in plan, also has a semi-circular apse. The building is almost free of structuring and decorative elements and therefore presents itself as a monumental example of a late Romanesque town church. Unfortunately, the church was under conservation work in 2021.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The fortified watchtower is a relic of the city´s first 11th-century fortification. Originally angular it was rounded to better withstand cannonballs. The tower with its six meter deep dungeon was used as a women´s prison during the witchcraft trials. Until 1846 it was used as a prison for "wayward women".

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. Rathaus Drogerie

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The church "Unser Lieben Frauen" was the church of the upper town, which is why it is often called "Oberkirche". It was first mentioned in 1186. From the late Romanesque original building still remains the west building with two towers in the upper part, which was built of fieldstone ashlars around the middle of the 13th century. After the town fire in the 12th century, which left only the western work largely intact, reconstruction began. This finally ended in 1455 with the completion of the rib vault. The altar is a work from 1607 by Michael Spieß from Magdeburg. The "Last Supper" carved from alabaster is the altar´s centerpiece.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The church "Unser Lieben Frauen" was the church of the upper town, which is why it is often called "Oberkirche". It was first mentioned in 1186. From the late Romanesque original building still remains the west building with two towers in the upper part, which was built of fieldstone ashlars around the middle of the 13th century. After the town fire in the 12th century, which left only the western work largely intact, reconstruction began. This finally ended in 1455 with the completion of the rib vault. The altar is a work from 1607 by Michael Spieß from Magdeburg.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The church "Unser Lieben Frauen" was the church of the upper town, which is why it is often called "Oberkirche". It was first mentioned in 1186. From the late Romanesque original building still remains the west building with two towers in the upper part, which was built of fieldstone ashlars around the middle of the 13th century. After the town fire in the 12th century, which left only the western work largely intact, reconstruction began. This finally ended in 1455 with the completion of the rib vault. A detail of the pulpit, made in 1608 and attributed to Michael Spieß or his workshop. This alabaster relief shows the "Creation on Eve".

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The church "Unser Lieben Frauen" was the church of the upper town, which is why it is often called "Oberkirche". It was first mentioned in 1186. From the late Romanesque original building still remains the west building with two towers in the upper part, which was built of fieldstone ashlars around the middle of the 13th century. After the town fire in the 12th century, which left only the western work largely intact, reconstruction began. This finally ended in 1455 with the completion of the rib vault.

The Ottonian kings began conquering the Slavic region in the 10th century. In 928, Henry I conquered Brandenburg. His son Otto founded the diocese of Brandenburg in 948. The city of Burg is mentioned for the first time in the founding charter. To secure their influence, especially Albrecht the Bear attracted Flemish settlers to the land of Burg. They founded the lower town of Burg and introduced cloth making. The Flemish immigrants brought with them important trade connections from their homeland. Their cattle breeding, beer brewing and the production of woolen cloth became a basis for the flourishing development of the town of Burg. At that time, Burg consisted of two largely independent settlements, the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The church "Unser Lieben Frauen" was the church of the upper town, which is why it is often called "Oberkirche". It was first mentioned in 1186. From the late Romanesque original building still remains the west building with two towers in the upper part, which was built of fieldstone ashlars around the middle of the 13th century. The upper parts of the double towers show three-part cloverleaf arched sound openings in pointed arched aperture. The slender pointed helmet of the south tower was erected in 1585, the north tower was raised in 1586 for a turret apartment and finished with a curved dome with lantern.

Local tradition knows that Dortmund was founded by Charlemagne in the course of the Saxon Wars. The first written mention of "Throtmanni" dates back to 882. In 1152, a court day was held in Dortmund under King Frederick Barbarossa. Craftsmen and merchants settled and so Dortmund developed into a city. A fire in 1232 almost completely destroyed the town. The fire also caused the loss of the town's archives and with them all documents from the time before the fire. Dortmund's privileges, which had been lost in the fire, were renewed by Frederick II in 1236. In 1293 the city was granted the brewing right and unprecedented development of the beer industry within the city began. In 1389, Dortmund survived the "Great Dortmund Feud" against the Count of the Mark and the Archbishop of Cologne. However, an economic decline was initiated. This process was continued and intensified by the Thirty Years' War and led to the city's decline, with the population falling to 4500 by 1793. Dortmund became an exclave of the Principality of Orange-Nassau. In 1808 Dortmund became part of the Napoleonic Grand Duchy of Berg. After the Prussian victory over Napoleon, Dortmund fell to the Prussian province of Westphalia in 1815. From the mid of 19th century, Dortmund's renewed rise and transformation into an industrial city began due to coal mining and steel processing. Since the opening of the railroad in 1847, Dortmund became a transportation hub in the Ruhr region. Another contribution to development came in 1899 with the opening of the Dortmund-Ems Canal. This infrastructure paved Dortmund's way to becoming a major city. The city grew beyond the narrow confines of the medieval ramparts. By the outbreak of WWII, the townscape had changed from a farming town to a metropolitan appearance. During WWII, more than 100 air raids destroyed more than 90 percent of the city, including its historic churches. Reconstruction proceeded quickly, and by 1950 the city had 500,000 inhabitants. Today, with about 590,000 inhabitants, Dortmund is part of the "Ruhr district", a polycentric urban area. With a population of over 5 million, it is the largest urban area in Germany. - There is evidence of a palatine church from the Ottonian period, which was destroyed during war unrest around 1060 and then rebuilt with a new outer crypt to house the St. Reinoldus relics, which may have been brought to Dortmund in 1065. St. Reinholdus (aka "Renaud de Montauban") is since Dortmund´s patron saint This church was probably destroyed again during fighting between 1113 and 1115 and then rebuilt. The fire of 1232 destroyed the church a third time. It was built from 1250 to 1270 and is located at the crossing of the Hellweg (a historic trade route) and the historic road from Cologne to Bremen. From 1421 to 1450, the large council chancel was built. After its completion of the tower in 1454, it was 112 m tall and was referred to as the "Miracle of Westphalia". The furnishings of St. Reinoldi make it clear that an essential function of the building was the representation of Dortmund's imperial freedom. In 1562 the congregations of Dortmund confirmed their adoption of Lutheranism in St. Reinold's Church. In 1661, the tower collapsed after being damaged during an earthquake. The foundation for the new tower was laid in 1662, and the building was completed in 1701, with a baroque ornament on the top. The church was heavily damaged in WW II. The reconstruction, partly financed by donations, began in 1950 and lasted six years. In June 1956, consecration was celebrated in the rebuilt church. The large altarpiece was acquired around 1410/20 by Dortmund Hanseatic merchants for the high altar of St. Reinoldi. In the centrally elevated shrine is a carved Calvary surrounded by the twelve apostles. The wing interiors are painted with scenes from the life of Mary, the Passion of Christ, and Saints Catherine and Barbara.The retable, about whose production and acquisition there is no written evidence, belongs to the most valuable specimens of formerly extensive export production of Flemish and Brabant sculpture workshops from the first half of the 15th century. Since most of the retables were lost during the iconoclasms, only a few monuments from this early production phase exist.