Crisp white wines from vines in the heart of Franconian wine country.
Southeast of Frankfurt, the Main River flows the particularly verdant Franconian wine country. And one of the best places to experience the bounty of the vines is in the medieval village of Iphofen with its baroque town hall, turreted walls, gabled houses and surrounding vineyards.
Iphofen has approximately 716 acres under cultivation for wine production. The ancestral tradition of wine making and production has turned the town into a premier destination for wine tourism.
The two leading grape varietals are riesling and silvaner, and the majority of the wines come in distinctly shaped, rounded bottles, known as Franken “Bocksbeutel” bottles. This style of bottle dates back to the 16th century and may only be used for winemaking in this region.
The name of this family from Lennep and Elberfeld derives from Frowin, an Old High German first name.
Wappen Frowein: On Silver, a beamed red Grape branch with three Leaves up and three Grapes down. On the Helmet with red and silver Blankets an open silver Flight.
The oldest known ancestor is Hermann Frowin, 1470-1540 at Lennep, (Ratsverwandter und Hospitalmeister). During the Middle Ages, hospitals offered hospitality for travellers: pilgrims, strangers or foreigners. The foundation of the prosperity of Lennep was an influx of Cologne Weavers during the 14th century. Lennep was one of the four capitals of the County of Berg and the residence of the counts from 1226 to 1300.
A junior line of the dynasty of the Ezzonen, a dynasty of Lotharingian stock dating back as far as the ninth century, emerged in 1101 as the Counts of Berg. In 1160, the territory split into two portions, one of them later becoming the County of the Mark, which returned to the possession of the family line in the 16th century
Jaspar (Kaspar) Frowein (1575-1631) moved in 1600 to Elberfeld, where he became Kirchmeister, Ratsverwandter and Bürgermeister.
The County of Jülich united with the County of Berg in 1348 and in 1380 the Emperor Wenceslaus elevated the counts of Berg to the rank of dukes, thus originating the Duchy of Jülich-Berg. In 1509, John III, Duke of Cleves, made a strategic marriage to Maria von Geldern, daughter of William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg, who became heiress to her father’s estates: Jülich, Berg and the County of Ravensberg. With the death of her father in 1521 his estates came under the rule of John III, Duke of Cleves — along with his personal territories, the County of the Mark and the Duchy of Cleves (Kleve) in a personal union.
The United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg was a combination of states of the Holy Roman Empire. The duchies of Jülich and Berg united in 1423.
John represented a compensatory attitude, which strove for a via media, a middle way, between the two confessions during the Reformation. The real influence at the court of Cleves was Erasmus. Many of his men were friends and followers of this well-educated Dutch scholar and theologian. When Duke John decided to write up a list of church regulations, Erasmus was the first person the Duke went to personally for consultation and approval. The court of John of Cleves was fundamentally liberal, but serious-minded, theologically inclined, and profoundly Erasmian.
While the Religious Peace of Augsburg in 1555 reserved the right of the ruler to determine the confession of his subjects, the Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg/Count of Mark-Ravensberg did not use that option; in his territories Catholicism and Lutheran Protestantism coexisted (Berg remained predominantly Catholic).
When Pfalz-Neuburg and Brandenburg succeeded in 1609, they declared they did not to want to interfere with the faith of its citizens. The Pfalz-Neuburgers reneged on their original proclamation and in 1627 forbade the eucharist being distributed in any non-Catholic manner.
Kaspar Frowein (1640-1679) married Anna Margareta von Carnap (1650-1667) and Abraham Frowein (1734-1813) married Anna Christine von Carnap (1748-1799).
Abraham Frowein (29.1.1766-16.3.1829) and his wife Charlotta Luisa Weber (30.9.1770-27.12.1833), daughter of Daniel Adolf Weber, Bürgermeister von Elberfeld 1788.
August Frowein (10.10.1805-25.3.1850)
August Frowein / von Frowein (19.5.1839-10.10.1912), Associate of the City of Elberfeld, was elevated to the Peerage (Potsdam 17.6.1910).
Wappen von Frowein: On the occasion of this Elevation, the red Lion with the Grape in its right paw was added to the helmet..
Julius August von Frowein (14.7.1869-18.10.1931) married Elisabeth Furmans (16.8.1877-24.4.1967), daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm Furmans (26.3.1835-12.4.1893) and Maria Luise Pferdmenges (5.10.1840-4.4.1907).
In Silver on green Ground a red tin Tower with Gate opening and three (1:2) Window Openings. On the red-silver, a natural Owl sitting between a right silver and a left red Ostrich Feather with red and silver Blankets. The Family could be identical to Fuhrmann of Hermannsmühle near Lennep, of which an equally Seal print is described, but Buffalo Horns are interpreted instead of the Feathers.
These Wappen in Glasfenstern are located in Katharinenkirche (St. Catherine’s church) in Oppenheim, which is regarded as an important Gothic church building on the Rhine, along with the cathedrals of Cologne and Strasbourg. Construction began probably in 1225, when Oppenheim was granted Town privileges. Since the merger of the Lutheran and Reformed congregation in 1822, it is a United Protestant church and its congregation forms part of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau.
Engraving by Simon de Bellomonte (1526-1615) of city scene before the siege of 1579. Farmers in the foreground and female figure in the clouds between emblems of the Prince-Bishop of Liège and the Duke of Brabant.
Maastricht was a condominium for five centuries until 1794. It was shared between the Prince-Bishopric of Liège and the Duchy of Brabant, the latter replaced by the Dutch Republic in 1632.
Forming Letters Is Key to Learning, Memory, Ideas.
“It seems there is something really important about manually manipulating and drawing out two-dimensional things we see all the time,” says Karin Harman James, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Indiana University.
Researchers are finding that writing by hand is more than just a way to communicate. The practice helps with learning letters and shapes, can improve idea composition and expression, and may aid fine motor-skill development. It’s not just children who benefit. Adults studying new symbols, such as Chinese characters, might enhance recognition by writing the characters by hand, researchers say. Some physicians say handwriting could be a good cognitive exercise for baby boomers working to keep their minds sharp as they age. Studies suggest there’s real value in learning and maintaining this ancient skill, even as we increasingly communicate electronically via keyboards big and small. Indeed, technology often gets blamed for handwriting’s demise. But in an interesting twist, new software for touch-screen devices, such as the iPad, is starting to reinvigorate the practice.
Other research highlights the hand’s unique relationship with the brain when it comes to composing thoughts and ideas. Virginia Berninger, a professor at the University of Washington, reported her study of children in grades two, four and six that revealed they wrote more words, faster, and expressed more ideas when writing essays by hand versus with a keyboard. [1]
There is a whole field of research known as “haptics,” which includes the interactions of touch, hand movements, and brain function.[2] Cursive writing helps train the brain to integrate visual, and tactile information, and fine motor dexterity. School systems, driven by ill-informed ideologues and federal mandate, are becoming obsessed with testing knowledge at the expense of training kids to develop better capacity for acquiring knowledge.
The benefits to brain development are similar to what you get with learning to play a musical instrument. Not everybody can afford music lessons, but everybody has access to pencil and paper.
[1] Berninger, V. “Evidence-Based, Developmentally Appropriate Writing Skills K–5: Teaching the Orthographic Loop of Working Memory to Write Letters So Developing Writers Can Spell Words and Express Ideas.” Presented at Handwriting in the 21st Century?: An Educational Summit, Washington, D.C., January 23, 2012.
“The origin of creative art is longing. Nature has given us all the incentive to mould, form, or create in one way or another. A child at play is employing the creative urge it feels within itself.” John Wolfgang Elischer November 1937
Handled press moulded bowls with dimpled base incised “Elischer” to base . Harlequin glaze to interior with clear gloss glaze to entire body. Hollowed press moulded handle to top of bowl.
Elischer Pottery was started in Sandringham in 1947 by sculptor John (Johann Wolfgang) Elischer, who was born on 1st September 1891 in Vienna. He trained at the Academy of Vienna from 1908 to 1911, including under Rodin in Paris around 1910-11, and was an Associate of the Royal Academy Vienna.
He practiced as a sculptor in Vienna and won an international competition in 1926 to design a memorial in Pretoria, South Africa for General Botha. An excellent example of his early smaller work, the sculpture, ‘Foundryman’ is held in the Eckhart G. Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This piece captures the intense concentration and skill involved in pouring metal.
John migrated to Australia in mid November 1936 with his sister Edith aboard the “Orama”. Elischer received commissions for sculptures including the King George V Memorial in Bendigo (1938) unveiled in September 1939 by the then Premier of Victoria, Mr Dunstan.
After seven years in Australia, John applied to become a naturalized Australian in 1943.
While living in Douglas Street Toorak in 1951, John won the 200 guinea prize for the medal given to the school children of Australia in 1951 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Federation of Australia.
Depiction of a man hand sowing wheat. The wheat represents the seven States of Australia on the other side of the medal, at left 1901, at right 1951 in tiny letters near ground right, J.W.E.
“We’re showing people can harness design and breakthrough technology that is already being used on houses around the world,” Mr Condon said.
Mr Condon is director of three sustainability companies including gardening outfit Biofilta, and part of an award-winning deep-green development The Cape at Cape Patterson in South Gippsland.Passive solar design – using the sun to heat and cool homes – meant power bills would be massively reduced.
“Cities have huge opportunities to combine rainwater or rooftop rainwater runoff, waste stream organics like composted food waste and surplus city spaces with clever urban farming systems to grow huge amounts of fresh produce.”
Biofilta recently partnered with a local coffee company to set up pop-up farms in two car spaces in Rocklea Drive, Port Melbourne.
The aim is to grow over 300 kilograms of fresh food in over a year using used coffee grounds and chaff. They have already produced 180 kilograms of food in four months.
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show March 27-31 at the Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens will feature a range of sustainable builders’ ideas and products linked to the house and garden of the future.
Hunter Johnson founded the Man Cave, a preventative mental health and emotional intelligence programme for boys and young men.
The journey of a Man Cave workshop is in three parts.
The first part is all around getting the young men to feel safe and to feel respected. Often that will begin with a few ice-breakers, a few high-energy games, let the boys kind of show that more boisterous side. And then we slow it down a little bit and just talk to them. We get their voice in the room as quickly as possible, ask them why would a programme like The Man Cave exists. What often comes out of it is that very few of them have had a safe space to talk about some of the challenges that they experience as young men.
From there we see a lot of boys start opening up, realising they’re not the only ones going through these challenges. That leads us into the second session which is all about exploring the masks that they wear each day – this is where the young men show real courage in sharing who they really are and deep empathy for others’ experiences.
The third and final session is all about creating a vision for the man they want to become. We also get them to acknowledge each of the other boys who’ve shown courage or bravery or some unique gift or talent that they’ve demonstrated. And then there’s a big conversation about the kind of culture they want to create.
From there it’s a conversation around support structures. Who’s in your network that you can continue this relationship with? Whether it’s the teachers, or the guys in the room, parents, or mental health resources.
The Queen’s Young Leader Award recognises and celebrates exceptional people aged 18-29 from across the Commonwealth, who are taking the lead in their communities and using their skills to transform lives
Queen Elizabeth II made her first visit to London Fashion Week to present an award recognizing British excellence.
The recipient of the Inaugural Queen Elizabeth II Award for British Design was Richard Quinn, who graduated from the Central Saint Martins M.A. program in 2016. This marks the second collection for the young designer, who started his own label in 2016 and has quickly earned recognition as part of the next wave of talented young British designers. His awe-inspiring floral designs made for a particularly dazzling display on the runway.
“As a tribute to the industry, and as my legacy to all those who have contributed to British fashion, I would like to present this award for new, young talent”
Her Majesty thanked the British Fashion Council for nominating Quinn and paid tribute to Britain’s fashion history.
“From the tweed of the Hebrides to Nottingham lace, and of course Carnaby Street, our fashion industry has been renowned for outstanding craftsmanship for many years, and continues to produce world-class textiles and cutting-edge fashion designs.”
The prize is the first of its kind in the U.K. and is due to be awarded annually.
The British Fashion Council’s Caroline Rush noted in her speech, Quinn’s contribution to fashion goes beyond clothes. He’s invited students and his fellow designers to share the resources in his print studio in Peckham, and that sense of community is more vitally important than ever.
Prince Harry has opened the Invictus Games in Sydney, where more than 500 competitors will be taking part in 13 sports.
During the ceremony, the prince said:
“Our Invictus family has turned these Games into a symbol of strength, honour and optimism for a new generation.”
“Invictus has become about the example of service and dedication our competitors have provided to the world.”
It is the fourth Invictus Games to be held, following similar events in London, Orlando and Toronto, for injured servicemen and women
Named after Invictus, Latin for “unconquered”, the Games are being held in the southern hemisphere for the first time.
The Invictus Games use the power of sport to inspire recovery, support rehabilitation and generate a wider understanding and respect for wounded, injured and sick Servicemen and women.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex meet children during a visit to Albert Park Primary School in Melbourne on 18 October 2018.
Finn, the school’s waste warrior, gave a pep talk about mulching before they were shown the school’s pet snail.
Two schoolgirls, Chloe and Daisy, were excited to show the Duke and Duchess of Sussex their new find and wanted to know if they would name their snail. The prince didn’t think twice and said, “I think Speedy,” and charmed the girls instantly.
Noah, a 12-year-old, was struck by Harry and Meghan’s calm demeanor and said that they were “so nice,” while Milo (15) said, “I think I’ll definitely be telling my grandkids about this.”
“They were really calm, they weren’t rushed at all … they really listened to us.”
Albert Park Primary School in an environmentally aware school with various projects pertaining to eco-sustainability. The school won the 2018 Sustainable School Award, as well as the 2018 Biodiversity School of the Year Award.
“At Albert Park Primary we aim to develop an understanding of the natural world around us, act in an environmentally aware and sustainable manner in all things we do, and lead in the school and broader community.”
