Freiburg Through Tours

Hello everyone! Just a quick photo dump before I’m off to München for the weekend and I go off the radar for a bit until after my birthday on Monday! Yesterday I went with a group to the Augustinermuseum, which had a special exhibit on National Socialism in Freiburg, and then the Archeological museum. Today we had a tour at Badischen Winzerkeller, Germany’s largest wine bottling facility, and I was over the moon. So, without further ado, the pictures of said tours!

DSCN1279 — The Augustinermuseum houses many of the original sandstone statues from the Freiburger Münster that have been removed and replaced by copies due to weather damage

DSCN1319 — The gargoyles, as you can see, are extremely disturbing, and they were meant to be. They are supposed to represent the seven deadly sins

DSCN1320 — I frankly think they look hilarious but I’m not a peasant from the Middle Ages so what do I know

According to the tour, when the museum wanted to celebrate the dedication of this new organ (1935) in the historic facade, the Nazi Party intervened and the ceremony was completely under the influence of the swastika

It is really hard to imagine that something so vivid is hundreds of years old

It is not as hard to believe that mothers have been giving their kids this exact look for hundreds of years

Ok, so here come the pictures of the National Socialist exhibit. I didn’t take many, but I did take a few of things that really made the reality of the matter clearer to me.

National Socialist propaganda from Freiburg

A sign announcing a speech to be made by Hilter in Freiburg on July 29, 1932

A lot of Freiburg was damaged during the war, the Münster is the only building that survived intact

It’s one thing to read about atrocities, or to see them acted out on-screen. It is something completely different to see something like this in person

I have to say, Freiburg makes no attempt to smooth over their rough history during WWII. To have a complete exhibit dedicated to showing exactly what happened and what led up to the war is something from which I believe every country could learn. I am very interested in seeing through my travels how other German cities handle their history.

So, the archeological museum!