Though the following has questionable genealogical significance, it is
about Czernowitz, and who knows what could happen in three years?
[the assistant moderator]
FREISTADT CZERNOWITZ by Hardy Breier.
It is now the 10 year jubilee of the founding of the Free City of
Czernowitz.
During this period the city changed it's face completely.
The Old Town was declared a World Heritage Site and was completely
rebuilt to the 1938 state.
The Old Town was also declared a pedestrian zone and only Fiakers are
permitted- as tourist attractions.
The newly opened underground crosses the City in 2 main lines:
Residenz and Prut having stations at the Ringplatz where a new
underground shopping center was built.
The Euro is the official currency (since the City joined the EC in
2010).
The official languages are: German, Ukrainian, Romanian and Yiddish.
All Austrian street names have been reinstated.
The old Jewish Temple was rebuilt to its past glory.
20 new hotels of world fame were built and 500 Zimmers are at the
disposal of the multitude of tourists who storm the city endlessly.
All border controls are abolished .
New four lane highways join the City with its neighbors.
The newly built Paul Celan International airport can hardly handle the
incoming traffic - most of it charters. From there the tourists are
shuttled to their hotels on the six-lane Eliezer Steinbarg Expressway
the new circular road where most new hotels are located.
All street bazaars have been closed.
The old Cheremosh Hotel was rebuilt into an ultra modern duty-free
department store.
It all started in 2006 when Hardy Breier, a born Czernowitzer came back
from an old-timer reunion,held in the city, and during a sleepless night
came up with an idea….
In 2009 he the Free City Council declared him Ruler and Monarch for life
and granted him the title:
HARDY THE FIRST OF CZERNOWITZ AND SADAGORA.
Hardy took his sceptre and orb, put on his velvet robe - had another
critical look at the pigeons sitting on his statue in the middle of the
Ringplatz and assumed his throne in the newly built palace, on the
bombed out north side of the square….
Then it was morning and he woke up.
Received on 2006-12-06 23:29:07
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