Chinese Buffet – All You Can Eat – on Rügen?

July 5, 2012 By Leave a Comment

China Garten Restaurant in Bergen auf RügenAfter my first visit to the island of Rügen last year I received a question asking if there was a Chinese restaurant on the island offering a buffet, known also as “all you can eat”.

Admittedly I had not eaten at a Chinese restaurant while I had been there, and considering the fresh fish available in many places I did wonder why you would want to.  Of course, I myself went to a restaurant called Riff in Ralswiek, but when I returned to the island this summer I decided to answer the question and find out firstly how many Chinese restaurants I could find and then if any of them offered a buffet service.

In the end I found [Read more…]

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A new website for Oberursel

July 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Oberursel Altstadt seen from the BleicheSince the Hessentag last year in Oberursel, the number of items relating to the town have increased dramatically on this site.

At the same time a number of sub-sites for local events and a ticker have been started, meaning that the information about the town has been spread out, whilst the blog has been a mixture of Oberursel and non-Oberursel topics.

To reflect the importance of Oberursel to the AllThingsGerman.net site we have decided to bring all of the topics connected with the town together, and to give the blog back to its original purpose: information about the culture, politics and places to visit in all of Germany.

If Oberursel does not interest you, then stay here on the blog as you have done until now.  Otherwise, please visit www.allthingsgerman.net/oberursel and see the new site for yourself.  Don’t forget to sign up for the new e-mail newsletter as well!

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Störtebeker Festspiele 2012 – Off with his head!

June 27, 2012 By 4 Comments

Last year I visited the Störtebeker Festspiele – the open-air theatre in Ralswiek on the island of Rügen – for the first time, encountering the end of a three-part story.

Since then it has been an open secret among Störtebeker fans that this year the play will complete a “cycle” of stories and see the main figure beheaded for pirate activities, although anyone not in on the “secret” may have guessed given that the title of the play this year is “Störtebekers Tod” (Störtebeker’s Death).

The stage at sunset

The stage in Ralswiek at sunset

In fact, it is his death in Hamburg that the real Klaus Störtebeker is probably most well-known for.  It is said that he asked for the lives of his men to be spared.  The Mayor of Hamburg promised him not to execute the men who he was able to walk past after his beheading, and according to legend he made it past either 7 or 11 of them.

Klaus Störtebeker (Sascha Gluth)

Klaus Störtebeker (Sascha Gluth)

But before the Festspiele get to that part of the story, they start off just after the end of the last story where Störtebeker had discovered the gold of the Knights Templar.  The gold has now been hidden and in part used to buy land.  The land is known as “Freies Friesland” (Free Frisia).  But the freedom does not last long [Read more…]

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