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Museum Für Kommunikation Frankfurt
The Museum für Kommunikation (MfK) is a museum of the history of communication in Frankfurt, Germany. It opened on 31 January 1958 under the name ''Bundespostmuseum'' (National Postal Museum) and is on Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank). The museum was owned by Deutsche Bundespost until 1994. The present building, a modern and transparent glass structure, opened in 1990 and was designed by architect Günter Behnisch. Following the opening of the new building, the museum acquired its present name, and it is now managed by the Museum Trust for Post and Telecommunications, which was established in 1995 during the federal postal reforms that followed re-unification. The museum has two sister institutions: the Museum of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany, and the . Exhibition The main exhibition of the museum is located on the underground level. It features a comprehensive history of the development and spread of various methods of communication throughout human history, incl ...
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Schaumainkai
Schaumainkai is a street in central Frankfurt, Germany, running along the south side of the river Main. It includes a number of museums including the Städel. Because of the large concentration of museums on the riverside, the area is called Museumsufer ("Museum Embankment"). The street is sometimes partially closed to traffic and used for Frankfurt's largest flea market. Image:Mdw-haupthaus29-ffm001.jpg, Museum der Weltkulturen, Haupthaus Schaumainkai 29 Image:Schaumainkai, Frankfurt.jpg, Bank of the river Main at Sachsenhausen-Nord Image:Museumsuferfest 2005 - Schaumainkai Tiefufer.jpg, Museumsuferfest 2005 - Schaumainkai Tiefufer See also * Museumsufer * Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main) Sachsenhausen-Nord and Sachsenhausen-Süd are two quarters of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The division into a northern and a southern part is mostly for administrative purposes as Sachsenhausen is generally considered a single entity. Both city ... External links Panoramic view ...
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Museumsufer
Museumsufer (Museum Embankment) is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly by transforming historic villas, partly by building new museums, in the 1980s by cultural politician Hilmar Hoffmann. The exhibition hall Portikus was opened on an island at the Alte Brücke in 2006. , 39 museums belong to the Museumsufer. History The idea for a group of different museums in Frankfurt was proposed in 1977 by Hilmar Hoffmann, who was then as ''Kulturdezernent'' responsible for culture in the city.''Frankfurter Wochenschau'' of 1 February 1977 Before, architect had proposed a concept to the forum for development (''Frankfurter Forum für Stadtentwicklung''). Between 1980 and 1990, existing museums were expanded and many new ones built, often including historic villas. Architects included internationally known Richard Meier ...
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Günter Behnisch
Günter Behnisch (12 June 1922 – 12 July 2010) was a German architect, born in Lockwitz, near Dresden. During the Second World War he became one of Germany's youngest submarine commanders. Subsequently, Behnisch became one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism. His prominent projects included the Olympic Stadium (Munich), Olympic Park in Munich and the new West Germany, West German Bundeshaus (Bonn), parliament in Bonn. Early life Behnisch was born the second of three children, in Lockwitz near Dresden.David Childs''Günter Behnisch: The architect behind Munich's groundbreaking Olympic Stadium'' in The Independent, The Independent (London), 7 August 2010, retrieved 1 March 2012 He attended a number of schools, due to the fact his Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrat father was arrested, sacked and redeployed to Chemnitz by the new Nazi Party, Nazi government. In 1939, Behnisch volunteered to join the navy (''Kriegsmarine''), aged 17, whic ...
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List Of Frankfurt U-Bahn Stations
The following list is of all 86 stations on the Frankfurt U-Bahn. The Frankfurt U-Bahn network consists of nine lines operating on of route. __TOC__ Legend *Boldface: Terminus station List References External links * {{Official website, https://www.vgf-ffm.de/en/home/, Official website of vgF Frankfurt Frankfurt U-Bahn The Frankfurt U-Bahn is a Stadtbahn ( premetro) system serving Frankfurt, Germany. Together with the Rhine-Main S-Bahn and the tram network, it forms the backbone of the public transport system in Frankfurt. Its name derives from the German te ... Transport in Frankfurt * Rail ...
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Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the foreland of the Taunus on its namesake Main (river), Main, it forms a continuous conurbation with Offenbach am Main; Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Authority, its urban area has a population of over 2.7 million. The city is the heart of the larger Rhine-Main metropolitan region, which has a population of more than 5.8 million and is Germany's Metropolitan regions in Germany, second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region, Rhine-Ruhr region and the List of EU metropolitan regions by GDP#2021 ranking of top four German metropolitan regions, fourth largest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union (EU). Frankfurt is one of the ''de facto'' four main capitals of the European Union (alongside Brussels, Luxembourg Cit ...
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Deutsche Bundespost
The (, ) was a German state-run postal service and telecommunications business founded in 1947. It was initially the second largest federal employer during its time. After staff reductions in the 1980s, the staff was reduced to roughly 543,200 employees in 1985. The corporation was dissolved in 1995 under two rounds of postal reforms that took place in the German Post Office in 1989 and 1995, respectively. Following the reforms, the former was broken into three publicly traded corporations: Deutsche Post AG (postal services), Deutsche Telekom (telecommunications), and Deutsche Postbank AG (banking). History Created in 1947 in the Trizone as a successor to the '' Deutsche Reichspost'' (German Imperial Post), until 1950 the enterprise was called ''Deutsche Post'' (German Post). Until 1989, the ''Deutsche Bundespost'' was a state-owned operation. Organization The ''Bundespost'' was developed according to a three-tier principle common in public administration in the Fed ...
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Museum Of Communication, Nuremberg, Germany
The Museum of Communication is co-located with the Nuremberg Transport Museum in Nuremberg, Germany. It shows various ways in which people communicate with each other. Exhibition The exhibition's four rooms address the subject of communication – sounds, images, texts, or internet. Exhibition, Exhibits include the first German telephone, postal delivery vehicles and various communication equipment. The collection includes over 400 objects. Interactive stations invite visitors to become a part of the exhibition. Participants can attend a writing workshop, send a message via the pneumatic post, or play the role of television presenter. One of the exhibition's key design elements is matching the architecture to the themes covered in the respective room. References External links Official Website of the Museum
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Telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not. Ancient signalling systems, although sometimes quite extensive and sophisticated as in China, were generally not capable of transmitting arbitrary text messages. Possible messages were fixed and predetermined, so such systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe in the late 18th century. The system was used extensively in France, and European nations occupied by France, during the Napoleonic era. The electric telegraph started to replace the optical telegraph in the mid-19th century. It was first taken up in Britain in the form of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, initially used mostly as an aid ...
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Heinrich Von Stephan
Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Stephan (born Heinrich Stephan, January 7, 1831 – April 8, 1897) was a general post director for the German Empire who reorganized the German postal service. He was integral in the founding of the Universal Postal Union in 1874, and in 1877 introduced the telephone to Germany. Biography Stephan was born in Stolp (Słupsk), Pomerania, in the Kingdom of Prussia. He began his career as a local postal clerk in the service of the Prussian post in 1849. In 1866 he was put in charge by the Prussian government of federalizing the postal service that had long been privately run by the noble Thurn und Taxis family. In 1870 he was named director of postal services for the North German Confederation. Stephan's career then moved quickly up the ranks, as he was named Postmaster General of the German Empire in 1876, the Undersecretary of State in charge of the post office in 1880, and the Minister of Postal Services for Germany in 1895. When Stephan began hi ...
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Cuneiform
Cuneiform is a Logogram, logo-Syllabary, syllabic writing system that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. Cuneiform scripts are marked by and named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions (Latin: ) which form their Grapheme, signs. Cuneiform is the History of writing#Inventions of writing, earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq). Over the course of its history, cuneiform was adapted to write a number of languages in addition to Sumerian. Akkadian language, Akkadian texts are attested from the 24th century BC onward and make up the bulk of the cuneiform record. Akkadian cuneiform was itself adapted to write the Hittite language in the early second millennium BC. The other languages with significant cuneiform Text corpus, corpora are Eblaite language, Eblaite, Elamit ...
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Heusenstamm
Heusenstamm () is a town of over 19,000 people in the Offenbach district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Heusenstamm is one of 13 towns and communities in the Offenbach district. The town lies in the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region south of Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach am Main at an average elevation of 121 m above sea level. The town lies on the river Bieber. The lowest natural point is the Bieber's riverbed, and the highest is the ''Hoher Berg'' ("High Mountain"). Darmstadt, the seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'', is located to the southwest. Heusenstamm lies in the southern part of Hesse, not far from the ''Mittelgebirge'' of the Odenwald and Spessart. Neighbouring communities Heusenstamm borders in the north on the district-free city of Offenbach am Main, in the northeast on the town of Obertshausen, in the southeast on the town of Rodgau, in the south on the town of Dietzenbach, and in the west on the town of Dr ...
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