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This pic shows us, dear visitor, the Bodensee (bodensea) consist of flowers!
Pls look :You also can see the cities around the Bodensee. Example city Konstanz (germany) and Stein am Rhein (Switzerland) Smile-good idea right dear visitor?
Visit of the isle of Mainau (Blumeninsel= isle of flowers) Bodensea germany 30.04.2006 in the time of tulip blooming.
The beautiful blooming and their perishable reminds me on:
"As for a man , his days are as a flower on the field, so he flourisheth.For the wind passeth over it , and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more , B U T (good this word BUT) the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that honor HIM."Psalm 103,15-17 Smile we are more then perishable flowers we have an everlasting call on our life s IF we will it! Smile
History of the isle Mainau:
-first rute of settlement: youngstonetime 3000 before Christ
-15 before Christ: the roman impire beat the Celts there
They build a castel and a dockyard on the isle, and a navalbase for their navy on Bodensea.
-9-13 centenary -it was count to abbey Reichenau
-then it come to the Deutschordensritter(=germanordenknight)
-1806 deconsecration by Napoleon
-1853 the grand duke Friedrich I from Baden earned the isle for a summer residence.
-1928 the isle come by heritage to the swedish crown
-today it is a donation (1% to the Gräfin countess Bettina Bernadotte)
Facts are taken from Wikipedia Encyklopedia Mainau
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Jul 31 2008 19:10 GMT Minz PRO
Soooo lovely !