Northrhine-Westphalia

Constant rain instead of "quietly falling snow", floods instead of a white Christmas - the capricious climate in Germany does not stop at religious festivals.

"No exhaust emissions - simply electric" was the slogan of the first all-electric VW Golf in 1976 with an output of 15 kW and a range of 59 km.

The super moon as "Blue moon" appeared over Röttgen and Lichtenberg, districts of Hennef (Sieg) in North Rhine-Westphalia, only in a few cloud-free moments.

One night before the expected "blue moon" on August 31, 2023, the moon appears already close to its perigee and thus in enormous size.

The Herrenhaus Oppenheim am Fühlinger See is an interesting Lost Place in the district of Cologne. It was built in the late 19th century next to a racecourse and is the source of all sorts of ghost stories.

First you hear trumpet-like calls and then you see them, the small black dots in the sky above the Hanfbachtal in Hennef, which together form a large flock of cranes.

Holography Museum Lauk in Pulheim - photos of the exhibited holograms from 1982

It was not the WM11 that lost, but we as a society failed to support the team appropriately.

Insiders call it the "Magic Mountain", the Heinrich-Hildebrand-Hill in Duisburg's Angerpark, on which the artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth have erected a huge construction reminiscent of a roller coaster and called Tiger and Turtle.