Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kamenz - Kamjenc, Germany

A hydraulic ram pump, ram pump, or hydram is a cyclic water pump powered by hydropower. It takes in water at one "hydraulic head" (pressure) and flow rate, and outputs water at a higher hydraulic head and lower flow rate. The device uses the water hammer effect to develop pressure that allows a portion of the input water that powers the pump to be lifted to a point higher than where the water originally started. The hydraulic ram is sometimes used in remote areas, where there is both a source of low-head hydropower and a need for pumping water to a destination higher in elevation than the source. In this situation, the ram is often useful, since it requires no outside source of power other than the kinetic energy of flowing water.

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The Protestant main church of St. Marien in Kamenz in the district of Bautzen in Saxony is a late Gothic hall church. It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Kamenz in the regional church of Saxony and shapes the townscape of Kamenz. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was baptized here in 1729 by his father, Pastor Johann Gottfried Lessing.

Wikipedia: St. Marien (Kamenz) (DE), Website

The Catechism Church is one of the four Protestant churches in Kamenz. Among other things, it was used for Sorbian-language worship and catechism exams. Its defiant exterior gives the impression of a fortified church.

Wikipedia: Katechismuskirche (Kamenz) (DE), Website

The town hall is a monument at the Kamenz market square in Saxony.

Wikipedia: Rathaus Kamenz (DE)

The monastery church of St. Annes was the church of the Franciscan convent in Kamenz. After the dissolution of the monastery, it was used for the Protestant worship of the Sorbian inhabitants. Since August 2011, the space has been used for church purposes, concerts and events as well as for the presentation of sacred works of art from the churches of Kamenz under the name of the Monastery Church and Sacred Museum of St. Anne. A restrained, new extension is used by the tourist information. In 2014, the "exemplary cooperation between the parish and the municipality", the "striking combination of old and new architectural language" as well as the "rich, at the same time nobly restrained presentation of several winged altars and precious furnishings" were honoured with the 1st prize of the Foundation for the Preservation of Ecclesiastical Monuments in Germany.

Wikipedia: Klosterkirche St. Annen (Kamenz) (DE)

The Owl Rock is one of several geological outcrops in the city area and on the outskirts of Kamenz, which are formed by greywackes of the Kamenz series and have been placed under protection as geological natural monuments. Further outcrops can be found on the Teufelsberg, the Gickelsberg and the Kuckucksburg. In the slope outcrop on the Eulenfelsen, the alternation between granular greywackes and dense, schist varieties is particularly striking. With the ordinance of the Bautzen district office on the determination of the area natural monument "Eulenfelsen" of 1 December 2011, the rocks have been under protection as an area natural monument since 15 February 2012.

Wikipedia: Eulenfelsen (DE)