Slide lectures by Andreas Giersberg (1933–1985)
In three slide lectures, the Friesdorf local historian Andreas Giersberg shows how his home village in the south of Bonn has changed — with old maps and picture postcards, with farms, crafts and clubs, and with a walk through the Friesdorf of 1985. His pictures and his voice have been preserved unchanged. Friesdorf-Verlag restored the lectures in 2026; they can be watched in full length on YouTube. The films are in German, with German and English subtitles.
Old maps, engravings, paintings and picture postcards: from the seal of the Dottendorf court district (Dingstuhl) and the first cadastral map of 1811, through Friesdorf in Rhine Romanticism and the old story of the Hochkreuz (High Cross), to the parish church of St. Servatius, the Paula-Maria-Stift and the Friesdorf school.
Full film: 53 minutes · Trailer: 35 seconds
The Klufterhof and Hochkreuzhof farms, smithies and wheelwrights, Friesdorf's many clubs, Schloss Annaberg, the incorporation into Godesberg on 1 July 1904, the aerial mine of 1943 in Klufterstraße and the great flood of 2 July 1961.
Full film: 50 minutes · Trailer: 41 seconds
Street by street from the Annaberg estate to the old city boundary with Bonn: the tower house and parish church, Klufterplatz, the Villa Simons with its magnolia in bloom — many shots set beside old photographs of the same spot. To finish, the International Fire Brigade Festival of 1961 in Bad Godesberg.
Full film: 45 minutes · Trailer: 46 seconds
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Slide lectures by Andreas Giersberg (1933–1985), remastered in 2021 by Andreas Heinrich Giersberg, new version 2026 by Friesdorf-Verlag. The lectures are preserved unchanged and in full length; the opening and closing titles are new. The opening and closing titles and the trailers were created with AI assistance and editorially reviewed by Friesdorf-Verlag (EU AI Act, Art. 50); the lecture itself has not been edited with AI. Music of the trailers: Erik Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1, and Robert Schumann, Träumerei (public-domain recordings, Musopen).
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