Reflejos del Mundo 1st 100 years Helgoland 02. Eurotunnel 03. DDR telephone Vida deportiva 04 S. S. Maciel at FC Homburg
Reflejos del Mundo 1st 100 years Helgoland 02. Eurotunnel 03. DDR telephone Vida deportiva 04 S. S. Maciel at FC Homburg
Reflections of the world I. Helgoland 100 years later 50 kllometros on the German coast of the North Sea Island of Helgoland, popular tourist and spa paradise lies. This year, visitors also celebrate the centenary of the belonging of Heligoland to Germany.
The Red Rock anchored at sea is now a piece of unspoiled nature. -Its inhabitants lived on fishing and boating. During the Napoleonic blockade of continental obtained huge profits smuggling, which is eventually going to become British colony in 1814, tourism became then a new source of income.
In 1828 he opened in Heligoland Dune, attached to the island until the beginning of the 18th century, the first season of the Spa island.
Embarkation and disembarkation services remain a privilege of island fishermen.
13,000 annual fixed visitors counted is already 100 years ago, when Germany changed its African colony of Zanzibar for Heligoland. Today come 500,000 tourists annually to the island. Free customs purchases are the main attraction for people who come only for a day.
Visitors to season conform to a tourism promotion advert published 150 years ago: "the excellent water of sea surrounding the island and its healthy sea air, whose curative virtues we have multiple accounts, we guarantee, with the help of our very efficient doctors, the desired success".
II. the channel tunnel, another island in the North Sea, the Kingdom of Great Britain, will be joined by via signature with the European continent. France is at the other end of the channel tunnel of 50 kilometers. With him will become reality in mid-1993 the old Napoleonic dream, that could also serve other subsequent politicians to win votes.
While Napoleon dreamed of even a smart tunnel ilumindao by torches, others proposed a bridge over the busy English channel. Since then they have conceived and rejected projects and more projects.
In the meantime, the dreamers have given as technicians. The channel tunnel, with two tunnels for traffic and one of services, is product of the largest operation of private financing of the 20th century, which is being slow and complicated than the same works. At the end of this year, the first tunnel, the tunnel services, join French and English below the bottom of the sea.
III. new network Telefónica for the GDR communication remains a problem in the GDR even after the opening of the borders: the scarce phone lines are always busy, phone is a matter of luck.
Obsolete techniques, pioneers of the telephone era, as the selectors two-way mechanical, prevail even in plants of the GDR.
Charming telephone operators will soon be just a nostalgic memory. Telecom today requires speed.
Inciuso in the old town hall of Berlin, telephoning abroad by slow fixed lines. Who, as entrepreneurs and journalists, must call unimpeded has obliged to use an expensive radio. But a new telephone network is not mounted from the evening to the morning. Occidentaies companies are installing first modern digital stations in the East of Germany, these allow completely automatic connections - fast and secure - and decongest the current network.
After 40 years of planned economy, only 16% of households in the GDR have phone. In Western Europe, nearly all have it.
This year, post will install 100,000 new lines. And this is only the beginning. According to experts, in a few years will work here the most modern telephone network in the world.
IV. MACIEL. LOCOMOTIVE of the FC HOMBURG Homburg - idyllic little village in the South-West of Germany with 40,000 inhabitants. One of them lived here for only a year and already is as popular as the monuments of Homburg in the postcards. Sergio Maciel, Argentine footballer, plays at FC Homburg.
"To me it represents to play in Germany something very important because I think that it is now one of the most good futbols in the world." Homburg has placed high hopes in Maciel. A player of the country of the magicians of the ball attracts, clear is, autograph hunters - but where stands out is on the front of its second-division team.
In a night match against the Brunswick note number 9 on the lawn. Not difficult thing since you Argentine protrudes from the outset by its active play.
Although Sergio Silvano Maciel leadeth not today no goal, the fans of the Homburg, club of old tradition, warmed environment so that its eleven keep on head and soon becomes perhaps the first German division.
Good omen for the thriving team: Argentine striker is now brought his family to live in Germany.
