Thursday, October 3, 2019

Erfurt
























In the Middle Ages, the city of Erfurt had about 580 beer breweries. Beer was a basic food, and everybody drank it, including the children. Walking through today's Erfurt you can still see the beer holes above the entrances of former breweries. They had a signal function. An empty hole meant: brewing cycle not yet completed. A straw bush in the hole: come in and enjoy a freshly brewed beer.


This is Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread), a German children’s TV character.


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