Some Memories of Germany, Wiesbaden, Part 5

I first published this in late 2014; updated slightly 8/27/16

About 20 miles from Frankfurt is the beautiful city of Wiesbaden, a sort of health resort city, with natural hot water springs for bathing as a therapeutic treatment, or "cure" (German: "Kur," cure/Kur are derived from Latin). The city is also known for casinos and it is the capital of the state of Hessen. The first time I went there, in the mid 1980s, I stayed at the Hotel Klemm, a nice place in a very peaceful location and with a great breakfast (Frühstück). I returned there on later visits. The hotel is still there, but with different owners. I had no relatives in Wiesbaden until about 1993.

I did a previous article about Wiesbaden in 2010, where I mentioned the "Sir Winston Churchill Restaurant." I'm including the link to that article here, but I have since found out that the restaurant is no longer in business. That's a real shame, as it was a great place. This is the link: http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2010/02/wiesbaden-germany.html

 This is the "Kurhaus" ("Cure House"), where you can go to bathe in the natural hot water spring. This picture is from from a postcard I bought there, rather than try to get such a great picture myself.

 This is the city hall of Wiesbaden. (Postcard picture)

 This is the main train station (Hauptbahnhof) in Wiesbaden. (Postcard picture)

 This is the old city hall. (Postcard picture)

 This is the Marktplatz (Market Plaza), known in modern times as "Schloßplatz" (Palace Square), with city hall and the Marktkirche (Market Church), a Protestant Church. (Postcard picture)

 This is the pedestrian zone (Fußgängerzone, ß=double 's') My own picture.

 This is the casino (Spielbank) and it is my own picture.

 Yes, that's a Burger King, and they sold beer and wine, pretty much a requirement in Germany. My own picture.

Germans love to sit outside in good weather to eat, to drink a beer or to sip a cup of coffee. My own picture, and I don't recall the name of the place. All of the pictures were from the mid and late 1980s.

 Hotel Klemm brochure, part 1 (from the 1980s)

 Hotel Klemm brochure, part 2 (from the 1980s)

A small matchbox from the restaurant, which was located at Taunusstraße 23 in Wiesbaden. (1980s)

WORD HISTORY:
Gore (2)-This is both a noun and a verb, with different, although related, meanings, and both have the same origin.^ The noun meaning, "a triangular or pointed piece of cloth or land," goes back to Indo European "ghaizo," which meant, "spear, staff." This gave Old Germanic "gaizo," meaning "pointed, triangular in shape." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "gar," which meant "spear." Just a note, it is "possible" that the word "German" came from the Germanic word for spear, which may well have been their main weapon; thus they would have been "spear men." The pointed spear tip gave rise to the use of "gar" for other pointed objects and led to its use, first as "gara," then later in the altered spelling as "gore," with the "pointed piece of land" (the point formed by waterways or roads), and "triangular piece of cloth" meanings. The same word led to the verb form "gore" in the 1400s, meaning "to stab with a sharp point," often applied when the action was carried out by an animal with horns. Forms of the noun were once common in the other Germanic languages, but most have now died out, except that German has "Ger," meaning "spear used by the Germanic tribes."

^ For the other noun "gore," meaning "drying, thickened blood," see the "Word History" at this link: http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2014/12/some-memories-of-germany-part-4.html