Post by benziger on Dec 28, 2020 20:12:04 GMT
I didn't even think about it: on 23 December, one of my books was in the Advent calendar!
If you want to look forward and exist in the present, you need a good footing and deep roots. That is why it is good to know the past. There is no local history society in our village. When I was a child, the dentist published a page in the local newspaper from time to time; in recent years I have compiled some findings.
This book (in German: Fabriken, ein leeres Schulhaus und andere Notlösungen : 150 Jahre katholische Kirche im Bezirk Meilen) is about the immigration, integration and assimilation of Catholics in an arch-reformed area. The fears of the locals were at least as great as they are today about the Muslims.... The book itself grew out of a guided tour. At important historical places, I showed a picture of how it used to look there and told some facts and anecdotes to go with it. When the shopping centre was still a textile factory and an empty schoolhouse with a pigsty served as a church in place of the railway embankment. The cover picture did not receive much approval here. I recommend the book for its content!
If you want to look forward and exist in the present, you need a good footing and deep roots. That is why it is good to know the past. There is no local history society in our village. When I was a child, the dentist published a page in the local newspaper from time to time; in recent years I have compiled some findings.
This book (in German: Fabriken, ein leeres Schulhaus und andere Notlösungen : 150 Jahre katholische Kirche im Bezirk Meilen) is about the immigration, integration and assimilation of Catholics in an arch-reformed area. The fears of the locals were at least as great as they are today about the Muslims.... The book itself grew out of a guided tour. At important historical places, I showed a picture of how it used to look there and told some facts and anecdotes to go with it. When the shopping centre was still a textile factory and an empty schoolhouse with a pigsty served as a church in place of the railway embankment. The cover picture did not receive much approval here. I recommend the book for its content!
Also exciting was the 200-year history of the nursing home, which was originally also a soup kitchen, a poorhouse (with a detention cell), a hospital, an orphanage (with children's work), a forestry operation, a communal breeding bull farm and an estate farm, and very recently: a quarantine station. (in German: 200 Jahre Allmendhof: vom Armenhaus 1819 zum Alters und Pflegeheim 2019 [at Epubli] [at Amazon]) - if you live in Switzerland, you get a booklet "Blatte - miis Quartier" for free, if you command this book at me directly - I still have a box of printed copies from the 200th anniversary.
