Strasbourg

lives but also changed their outlook on how different cultures live. A bunch of us decided that it would be a lot more fun if we went as a group as we would not only have more fun, but also come closer together as a team. We decided on the 3-week Strasbourg/Paris trip and the rest was history. In this paper I will highlight some of my most memorable experiences, as well as how the trip changed my views on European culture and how…

The Nazis established a concentration camp near the town of Natzweiler, 31 miles south of Strasbourg, on a hill in the Vosges Mountains. Natzweiler-Struthof was one of the smallest concentration camps. It was apparently established after Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, who had been on an inspection tour of recently occupied France and had noticed that there was granite deposits in the Natzweiler area. The Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke GmbH AKA “The German Earth and Stone-Works Ltd”,reacted to…

Theologians John Calvin (1509-1564) John Calvin was born July 10, 1509, at Noyon, France, an ancient cathedral city about seventy miles Northeast of Paris. Calvin was a wanted man so with his brother and sister and two friends, ran off of Strasbourg. After he converted to the ‘’evangelical’’ faith during the time of his published education of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, he also was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation. As a student he studied the liberal…

The Bubonic Plague, which occurred in the 14th century, terrorized Europe and destroyed everything and everyone that it came in contact with. While some people reacted by trying everything they could assure themselves that the plague wasn’t as certain of a death as it seemed to be (Doc #3, 4, 6, 9), others fled from their town and family for protection against the plague. Within this as well, people who were trying to provide themselves with protection, also tried to provide others with…

During the Plague, most of Europe was Christian, so Jews were looked at with high levels of suspicion and were the easiest scapegoats for the Plague, being religious outcasts. There was a strong belief among the elites in the European society that the Jews wanted to destroy Christendom. Many Christians viewed the Jews as the Antichrist and irresponsible priests spread rumors that the Jews kidnapped and tortured Christian children. The Jews were also represented as the demon’s attendant on Satan…

St. Albert the Great, who was also known as Albert of Cologne,was a great thinker of his time. He was a great natural scientists, physicist, theologian, mathematician, chemist, geographer, and astronomer. St. Albert also was a teacher of St.Thomas Aquinas. St. Albert was born around 1200 AD. There is not much known about his childhood and birth, and many sources disagree on his early life. Research suggests he was sent to Padua University, while he was there he was taught in the writing of…

In 1763, a large statue of king Louis XV was erected at this site to celebrate the recovery of the king after a serious illness. The square surrounding the statue was created later, in 1772, by the architect Jacques-Ange Gabriel. It was known as the place Louis XV. In 1792, during the French revolution, the statue was replaced by a another, large statue, called 'Liberté' (freedom) and the square was called Place de la Révolution. A guillotine was installed at the center of the square and in…

Lisle, “La Marseillaise” has helped to increase nationalism in France from the day it was written to present times. The original title was “Chant de guerre de l'armée du Rhin,” which translates to “War Song of the Army of the Rhine.” The mayor of Strasbourg, where Rouget de Lisle was stationed, wanted a marching song for the French army, because France had declared war on Austria. Four days after declaring war, on April 24, 1792, Rouget de Lisle wrote the song.1 When the song was played at a…

Duval hills It was the 1800s and a beast was roaming close to the village of Duval. The beast was walking around. He was not causing trouble. Duval had a king named Joe. He knew what the beast could do. The beast could make big mountains and hills with his hands. The beast named was Billy. Billy could make mountains as he did when he saw flat ground he would place some hill and mountains .the king planed an attack on the beast because he put hills beside there village so they could not see…

a merchant family in Mainz, Germany. While living in Germany, he was trained by his family to be a goldsmith and a blacksmith. Experimenting with printing began in 1428 when a craftsmen revolt erupted causing his family to vacate and settling in Strasbourg, France. He later then manufactured metal blocks that provided discrete letters, which made production easier than using wooden blocks used in China for hundreds of years in the past in around 1440. Using his invention, he was able to print a…