30th Anniversary of Twinning

On 12th of August 1987 the twinning-contract between Bad Oldesloe and Be'er Ya'acov was signed in Bad Oldesloe.
30 years later on 7th of October there was a celebration in the Town Hall of Bad Oldesloe, to remember this event.

Bad Oldesloe Mayor Jörg Lembke (Translator to Hebrew: Ayala Nagel)

Ilse Siebel (Friendship-Association Bad Oldesleo-Be'er Ya'acov) reminds the 30 years of partnership
(Ayala translates)

Uri Shimoni (Be'er Ya'acov) during his hebrew speech (Ayala translates)

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Dr. Katharina Schlüter (Sparkassenstiftung) explains 
the exhibition of Ilan Wolff-pictures (again Ayala translates)

Exchange of presents

Jubiläumsfeier und Vernissage 7.10.2017

Einladung zur Jubiläumsfeier 30 Jahre Städtepartnerschaft Beer Yaacov – Bad Oldesloe inclusive zur Vernissage „Visueller Brückenschlag Bad Oldesloe-Beer Yaacov“ des Künstlers Ilan Chaim Wolff Historisches Rathaus, Eingang Beer Yaacov Weg Samstag, 7. Oktober 2017 um 11 Uhr

Liebe Oldesloerinnen und Oldesloer, liebe israelischen Gäste, hiermit lade ich Sie herzlich zur Jubiläumsfeier unserer 30-jährigen Partnerschaft mit Beer Yaacov ein. Nach der Feier eröffnen wir im gleichen Raum die Ausstellung von Fotografien, die der israelische Künstler Ilan Wolff mit der ‚Camera obscura‘ in Bad Oldesloe und Beer Yaacov aufgenommen hat. Anschließend begeben wir uns zu Fuß (15 Minuten) zum Platz der Städtepartnerschaften vor dem WAS-Gebäude (Bahnhofsvorplatz) und pflanzen mit den israelischen Gästen einen Freundschaftsbaum. Mit herzlichen Grüßen Jörg Lembke (Bürgermeister)

Programm 

∞ Musik ∞ 

Begrüßung durch Jörg Lembke (Bad Oldesloe) 

Grußworte von Uri Schimoni (Beer Yaacov) 

∞ Musik ∞ 

30 Jahre Städtepartnerschaft Überblick durch Ilse Siebel (Freundeskreis Beer Yaacov) 

∞ Musik ∞ 

Grußwort von Dr. Katharina Schlüter (Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Stormarn) 

Erläuterung zur Ausstellung von Thomas Schröder-Berkenthien 

∞ Spaziergang ∞ 

Baumpflanzung am Platz der Städtepartnerschaften 

∞ Ende gegen 13 Uhr ∞

Juden in Bad Oldesloe

Ein Buch über die Geschichte der Juden in Bad Oldesloe ist erschienen.

Green, green brass of home .... (Stormarn Magic on the market place of Bad Oldesloe on 27th of May 2012)

Abraham's ring

This metal-ring symbolizes the three abrahamic religions. It was embedded in the ground at an open market place here in Bad Oldesloe called 'Hude' (September 2011).

It should remind us, to live in peace together and tolerate each other, whatever we believe.

The blue part inside the ring is looking like an angel, therefore it is called angel of cultures.

The ring was 'planted' at several places in Germany and in eastern europe cities up to Istanbul.

The metal pieces in the shape of the Angel of Culture  remains when you produce the ring out of a steel plate by help of a cutting torch. The artists want to pile up all these metal angels to a continuously growing pillar, the so called  Abraham’s Pillar, which they intend to erect at Jerusalem one day.

More about the project you can read here in a brochure.

What happens in Oldesloe?

Denomination of the Derech Beer Yaacov

Change of the date:
On 18th of October 2009, there will be a ceremony at 11 o'clock for the denomination of the street "Weg zum Bürgerpark" into דרך באר יעקב

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Bad Oldesloe calls a street "Beer Yaacov Weg"

The "Hauptausschuss" of the city-parliament decided on Monday, 18th of May 2009, that the Street "Weg zum Bürgerpark" will be renamed to "Beer Yaacov Weg דרך באר יעקב".
This street is situated in the very center of the city - the historic town-hall, the largest savings-bank, a café and the new arising cultural-center of Bad Oldesloe are adjacent to this street.
See the map.

Picture to the right: The historic town-hall in the new named "Beer Yaacov Weg דרך באר יעקב".

Newspaper-Report

Pop-Music

A young pop-music scene has been established in Bad Oldesloe.
They present themselves on the "KlangStadt" (SoundCity)-Festival.
Taste their music.

The young people like to meet and listen to music at the Ini-House

A special group: Puppies on Acid,
Puppies on Acid videos

Metropolitan region

Bad Oldesloe is the capital of the Stormarn district, one of 14 in the metropolitan region of Hamburg, Germany

Brenner Moor

aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklopädie

Das Brenner Moor ist das größte binnenländische Salzmoor in Schleswig-Holstein. Es liegt auf dem Gebiet der Stadt Bad Oldesloe. Die Fläche des im Jahre 1978 ausgewiesenen Naturschutzgebietes beträgt 0,24 km².

Die salzige Umgebung zieht Pflanzen an, die sonst nur in Küstennähe zu finden sind, z. B. Bottenbinse (Juncus gerardii) und Strand-Dreizack (Triglochin maritima). In weniger salzhaltigen Teilen wachsen unter anderem Schilfröhrichte.

Seite „Brenner Moor“. In: Wikipedia, Die freie Enzyklopädie. Bearbeitungsstand: 20. Januar 2009, 15:26 UTC. URL: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brenner_Moor&oldid=55575300 (Abgerufen: 9. März 2009, 14:56 UTC)

Pictures of Bad Oldesloe

The Mekka of Mennonites

What Mekka means for Muslims,
what Jerusalem for Jews ...
that means Bad Oldesloe for Mennonites!
Why?
Here the Reformer Menno Simons lived and preached, the founder of the free church of Mennonites.
You can still visit his house, the Mennokate

Old history of Oldesloe

The first settlements in this area have their origin 15 000 years ago (The picture shows excavations near the town).

The first written document mentioning the town ("Odeslo") is dated from 1151







1371 the town got the privilege as a marketplace.
At that time Oldesloe was a very important town and had 1500 inhabitants (for comparison: the largest Hanseatic-City Lübeck had 9000 and nearby Hamburg 5000 citizens). 60% of the east-west-trade of those days of the Hanseatic League had to pass Oldesloe (a harbour on the Trave-river provided the possibility of shipping the goods to the Hanseatic-Metropole Lübeck)

More informatio (in German) you can get from this site or you visit the Bad Oldesloe museum here

Homepage

Internet-presentation of the sistercities of Bad Oldesloe

Waterwheel

Old Oldesloe

Old photographs from Oldesloe you can find here