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Anger Square, Erfurt, Germany

Welcome to my video of the Anger, the central square of the town of Erfurt, in the Free State of Thuringia, one of the federal states of Germany. Erfurt is the state capital and largest city in Thuringia. It’s in the wide valley of the Gera River, an area known for huge forests and high mountain peaks. This was an important region in medieval times, and the city has a wealth of architecture from the Middle Ages and later, yet it is not a very well-known tourist destination outside Germany. This is a pity because Erfurt is a beautifully clean and tidy city, with good a mix of historic and modern buildings, and there is plenty of countryside around to enjoy and explore on outdoor activities. (Look out for McDonalds housed in an historic building, to see how Erfurt delicately mixes the old and the contemporary!) This film takes a good look at the fascinating buildings in Anger, from the square itself along the street of Anger to Angerbrunnen. The Anger, which meant ‘village green’ in German and is where the film starts, is more of a rectangle than a square, being 500 metres in length and about 20,000 square metres in total. In the background is the Merchants’ Church, with a statue of Martin Luther in front; on the right you see the Anger1 department store, in a building dating from 1908. Anger 1 is open 10am to 8pm (closed Sundays). It contains a whole range of shops, cafés and restaurants, and you can buy anything from fashion garments, jewellery, cosmetics and toys, to technological items and mobile phones. In the next shot, the camera looks down the street to, in the background, the modern Angereck building of steel, glass and brick, which is a shopping mall. (You’ll see it a bit closer-up in a minute.) On the right nearer the camera is the majestic Main Post Office, with its impressive clock tower. Then, after the fountain (of which there are many in this city), on the west side of the square in the sunshine you will see some of the historic, large and prosperous looking business houses dating from the late 19th century, all in neo-gothic style. When you see the tram coming towards you up the street, you may recognise behind, at the far end, the store called Anger1, that we saw a few moments earlier, only in this shot you can see just how huge the building is. Seeing the Post Office from the other side reveals the scale of that building to be enormous as well. The modern white square tower behind is the Radisson Blue Hotel, to the left of the now familiar Anger1. After a closer shot of the modern Angereck building, we see the yellow, elaborately gothic Kunstmuseum of modern art; housed in the same building (the Baroque Packhof) is the Angermuseum, which covers the rest of art history for the city. The museum is followed by a view to the south west along the street part of Anger, as opposed to the square. One or two small trees try to introduce a little nature to the built environment. (Again, notice how discreet the modern shop names are, on the fine stone buildings.) When we reach Angerbrunnen, we see the Angerbrunnen Fountain, dating from 1890. As the film shows, most of the Anger is pedestrians only, apart from trams and bikes. Trams can be caught at the bus station in the forecourt of the Hauptbahnhof (main railway station). Tickets for single journeys or a day pass can be bought from machines which take cash or cards at tram stops or on the tram. Trams number 1 or 6 will take you out of the city to the Thuringian countryside. A good alternative transport is the bicycle, and you will see plenty of people using them in the Anger. Towards the end of the movie, don’t miss the boy on a unicycle going fast down the street away from the camera, as if riding it were the easiest thing in the world. (He didn’t know he starred in my film!)