This evening we drove over to Wiesbaden to visit my cousin, Elly Laemmlen. We’d planned to have her show us around town a bit, then she had a restaurant in mind for dinner.
We walked around the beautiful city boulevard to the Theater and the Casino Kurhaus, that was a huge beautiful spa/casino built in the late 1800s. This was a spa town then where the Kaisers came. Wiesbaden dates back to Roman times. This grand Kurhaus is now an event center with concert halls. In one hall there was an orchestra and choir practicing the Messiah. Wonderschön! On the other side of the lobby was the cassino. Elly said that’s where Dostoevsky gambled away all of his money, then after that in 4 weeks he wrote the book, “The Gambler,” to earn the money back.
In the plaza/park by the Kurhaus was a large ice skating rink set up for CMS time, with curling lanes on one end. Lots of people were renting skates and enjoying that with music and a water fountain in the center of the rink.
We circled around by the big cathedral/church. The CMS markets were around it, but we didn’t go in. Elly took us by a literary club building that was closed and a new museum of abstract art. We visited while we walked and enjoyed that very much.
Along the way, we spotted this Stolperstein for Joseph Mayer b. 1870. He fled to his death in 1940.
Here is another for Leo Lazarus Rubinstein, b. 1904. He was deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He was freed and he survived!
Here is Elly in her apartment. This piece of furniture belonged to her Grandmother, Sophie, who married my Grandpa Rudolf’s brother, Heinrich.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 