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...Passion. Volkswagen's massive contribution to the postwar economic recovery that West Germans refer to as the Wirtschaftswunder was almost exclusively the work of Heinz Nordhoff, a courtly engineer whose only passion, he once said, was "to build cars, sell cars and build cars." The son of a Hildesheim banker, Nordhoff served long enough in World War I to be shot in both knees. In 1925, he took an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Academy in Berlin and began his career by designing aircraft engines in Munich. Joining Opel, General Motors' subsidiary, in 1929, Nordhoff worked...
Germany had reaped the whirlwind: Cologne Cathedral, nicked and shaken, stood like a mother without children, in the dead city. Dresden's baroque beauty lay shattered from an aerial bombardment in the last weeks of the war. It was as though such medieval beauties as Darmstadt, Niirnberg and Hildesheim, with its steep-gabled Butchers' Guildhouse, had never been...
...miracle play is a custom which the Dramatic Club has carried on from year to year, one which affords students an opportunity to see a form of drama rarely produced nowadays. The cathedral background of the Germanic Museum, with its reproduction of the great arch of the cathedral of Hildesheim in Germany, forms an ideal setting for the performance...
...speak in the history of art. I think we have succeeded in this. Nowhere else but in our Museum, not even in Germany, is there to be found such an impressive representation of early German architectural sculpture. Romanesque sculpture and architecture are fully brought to view by the Hildesheim monuments, the Augsburg bronze gates, the Braunsehweig Lion, the Wechselburg pulpit and Crucifixion groups, the Strassburg Death of Mary, the sculptures from Bamberg cathedral, and the wonderful Golden Gate of Freiberg. Of the height of mediaeval sculpture represented in our museum it may suffice to single out the colossal Rood-screen...
...this hall, alcoves are formed on both of its sides, increasing its wall space and giving ample opportunity for placing properly the many specimens of early mediaeval art in our possession. This hall will contain, among other notable works, the colossal Bernward Column and the bronze gates of Hildesheim Cathedral, the bronze gates of Augsburg Cathedral, the pulpit and the Crucifixion group of Wechselburg, the choir screen of St. Michael's at Hildesheim, the Bamberg sculptures, the smaller portal of the Church of Our Lady at Treves. At its further end, raised a few steps above the floor level, there...