Well, there was certainly a lot of unique builds I saw today, starting with a very large church with a really interesting door. But I didn’t go inside as there was currently a “Gottesdienst” (church service) going on. So next I went to the grand (Evangelical) Magdeburg Cathedral, officially the “Dom zu Magdeburg St. Mauritius und Katharina“. The oldest cathedral in Germany, built on top of an old church, but the one standing there today was built over “300 years starting from 1209, and the completion of the steeples took place only in 1520.” There was a small charge to take photos inside, and it really was… fairly bland compared to some of the other cathedrals, there wasn’t much ‘Wow! Look at that!’ You can probably google image the interior if you like. Hilariously, in the gift shop, they sell chunks of original stone from the cathedral. Blocky, chunky light weight and white pieces of old church stone, from the 14/15 hundreds it said. My guess is rubble from WW2, and like every other large city, Magdeburg was bombed to ruins during the war. After that I went to the very strange, whacky, weird and color mini mall called the Hundertwasser’s Grüne Zitadelle Magdeburg. An Austrian/New Zealand architect named Friedrich Stowasser, with the last name/nickname of Hundertwasser. It’s a bright pink, round, and, well, there’s a lot of ways to describe it, so just check out the pictures! It’s quite unique, though he’s designed other crazy buildings, and has one in Vienna. Back near the Dom (Cathedral) is a big section in the ground with remaining structures and roads from the old city of Magdeburg. It’s a bit tough to describe, but I got some pictures.

Then I went to the nearby Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen. I’m not exactly sure what it is, it’s some kinda of old monastery, “Monastery of Our Lady” Though it now serves as an art museum, and performance center. I didn’t really feel like going into this one. After that I took a tram across the Elbe River to the Elbauer Park, with another one of those cool rope climbing parks, though this has something else. The “Jahrtausendturm” (Millennium Tower) A very large conical structure at 200 feet tall, built in 1999 for a biennial garden show. I had no idea what was inside, but when I got there I was completely blown away by how awesome it all turned out to be. There is a small fee to get into the park, but the tower is free, and you can start on the ground floor, or walk a long a ramp that travels up along the outside. I started with the ramp, to the second floor, and when I got inside, I realized it’s basically all a giant science discovery and learning facility. It’s basically a 9-10 floor science fair. Each floor has a slightly different focus, and almost all of them have all kinds of neat hands on experiments and physics demonstrations. Along with lots of old science relics, and tons and tons of historical signs of many, many famous scientists throughout history, however everything was in German, with no English text. I kept going up, exiting and walking along the ramp along the outside looking out over city, going up one floor at a time, where at the top is a long zip line cable to a park a ways away. Then I just took the internal stairs down to the bottom. The whole structure is made of giant wood beams, with some metall support beams, and the the outside is a very heavy rubber canvas like material. The bottom floor was obviously the biggest, and had some really incredible exhibitions. It had a recreation of a Roman Villa, with other Roman sciency things around it, then a large Greek style temple, with Greek sciency stuff, like a model of the Pythagorean Theorem. And finally there was an big Egyptian section with a screen of pyramids, and model of an ancient Egyptian boat. Though inside the large Egyptian structure was a dark hallway leading to and from a Tomb Room. I spent much, much longer here than I originally thought I would. I was kinda sorta thinking of going to another attraction Magdeburg has, and that is a another feature of architecture and engineering wonder. It’s a huge man-made canal of water used four tourism and shipping, that flows over a bridge over the Elbe River. It’s quite incredible to look at, and takes a moment to see what you’re looking at. Unfortunately though I had mostly decided against going, as even if I wanted to, it’s a ways out of the city, and very difficult to get to without a personal car. There closes is a tram ride that leaves you with a several mile walk one way to get to it. And without any ferry or ride tickets, or any aerial way

I’ll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. But the subtitles under the pictures will really do that rest.