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March 8th, 2008 - Columbus, OH: Blizzard dumps 20.4 inches of snow on German Village.
View the flash tours below. Click and drag on the photos to scroll around. Shift and Control keys zoom in / out.
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Beck St. and Mohawk St.
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North German Village, near Berger Alley
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Near Third St. and Sycamore
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4th and Jackson
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Welcome to the GermanVillage.info website. We have a lot going on finally and are seeking out support from members of the community who would like to support the initiative of this website by contributing articles about the Village, or content for the site such as local restaurant reviews. If you'd like to talk to us directly, you can either call us at 614.846.7315 and leave a message (we'll try to return all calls within 24 hours whenever possible) or you can register on the site to view our e-mail contacts for submission requests. Thanks for stopping by! |
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German Village Virtual Tours Coming Soon! |
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GermanVillage.info will be launching 360 degree Virtual Tours of German Village, OH.
Please enjoy our sample tour below which will open in a new window:
You will need to have Flash installed on your computer to view the tour.
Alternately, you can click on the map above to take a look at a 3x3 grid including: Mohawk Street, Fieser Street, Macon Alley, East Blenkner, Jackson Street, and Berger Alley. You'll start on Mohawk and Jackson and be able to jump through a few streets by clicking on the street names that appear near the roads.
Please enjoy these samples while we work on producing the rest of the set.
If you have any questions, please call: 614.846.7315 to leave a message and someone will return your call as soon as possible.
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Welcome to GermanVillage.info This is a new website geared towards residents and businesses of German Village in Columbus, Ohio.
The website is for news, events, and information about German Village. If you would like to contribute to this website, with news, events, links, or profiles about local businesses or individuals, please register and contact the site administrator. |
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German Village is a historic neighborhood just south of downtown Columbus, Ohio. It was settled by a large number of German immigrants in the mid 1800s, who at one time comprised as much as a third of the population of the entire city.
The area was in serious decline throughout most of the 20th century, due first to anti-German sentiment during World War I, and later to the closing of the local breweries during Prohibition. Concerned citizens managed to save its historic architecture from demolition in the 1960s, by successfully lobbying for a local commission to have power over external changes made to buildings, and by getting the area listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The German Village Society presently has over 1,000 preservationists dedicated to maintaining the historic quality of the buildings and neighborhood, and German Village is currently considered one of the most desirable areas to live in the city.
German Village has a commercial strip mainly centered along Third Street, with mostly locally owned restaurants -- such as Katzinger's Delicatessen -- and the 32-room Book Loft bookstore, as well as the tall-steepled St. Mary Catholic Church, constructed in 1868. However, German Village is mostly a residential neighborhood of sturdy, red-brick, working-class cottages with wrought iron fences, along tree-lined, brick-paved streets.
At the southern end of German Village is Schiller Park, named after Friedrich Schiller, which was once a community meeting ground for the German settlement. It is now the site of recreational facilities, gardens and an amphitheater, which hosts free live performances of Shakespearean plays during the summer months courtesy of The Actor's Theatre.
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