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Benno Bleiberg, vice chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin, visited the grave stone of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn at the historic Jewish cemetery in the Mitte district of Berlin on Wednesday, Sept. 24. The place was opened after two years of renovation. Constructed in 1672, it's Berlin's first Jewish cemetery. The cemetery was destroyed by the Nazis in 1943. German company Zeiss presents its new products in a giant Zeiss Lens-shaped booth during a press preview tour of the 'Photokina - World of Imaging' fair in Cologne, Germany, on Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. A total of 1.579 exhibitors from 46 countries will present their latest products and developments from Sept. 23 to 28, 2008. A titmouse enjoys a meal of sunflower seeds on Monday, Sept. 22, in a field near Haltingen in southern Germany. On the official first day of fall, temperatures reached highs in the mid-60s (under 20 degrees Celsius) throughout the country. Visitors jam the lanes between the beer tents at the Oktoberfest beer and amusement festival at dusk in Munich, southern Germany, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. The festival was opened yesterday and will go on till Oct. 5, 2008.The weird and wonderful world of modern cycling takes over the Cologne Trade Fair complex this week. This roadster was just one of the many custom bikes on show on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the IFMA 2008 Bike Fair in the city. No longer, it seems, is the humble bicycle just merely a mode of self-propelled transport but a fashion statement...and in some cases, a product of science.Four restored pieces of the Berlin Wall, pictured here, go up for auction on Friday, Sept. 19. One of the cement chunks contains a door that could only be opened from the former East German side of the Wall. In 1990, shortly after the fall of the Wall, 900 pieces like these were bought up by an agricultural collective to be used to build silos. These pieces, however, were rejected because they'd been too badly damaged by so-called Bavarians said This six-wall, 3D projection of the Collegiate Church in Stuttgart was created by photographer Gottfried Stoppel from Waiblingen, Germany. His photo won the online readership award in Focus magazine's scientific photography contest that was to be presented in Munich on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2008. Visitors to the zoo in the eastern German city of Leipzig were treated to a special show of elephants having a bath in an indoor pool on Tuesday, Sept. 16. The mammals, which weigh thousands of kilograms, are among the zoo's largest attractions.The roughly 10,000 parts necessary to make a Volkswagen Tiguan were put on display Monday, Sept. 15, at the Automechanika in Frankfurt. The five-day trade show opens on Wednesday.The Mercedes-Benz Championship is taking place at the Gut Lärchenhof Golf Club in Cologne from Sept. 11 - 14, 2008. Seventy-five players from the European Tour and the top 75 of the Official World Rankings are participating in the event. The Mercedes-Benz Championship has a hugely impressive roll of honor including seven major champions, who between them have won 17 major championships. They are: Sandy Lyle (1987), Jose Maria Olazabal (1988), Bernhard Langer (1989, 1991, 1997 and 2001), Seve Ballasteros (1994), Michael Campbell (2000), Padraig Harrington (2004) and Retief Goosen (2005). Participants in the Drachenboot Festival 2008 -- one of the biggest dragon boat races in Germany -- are seen paddling their way to exhaustion and, perhaps, victory on the Binnenalster lake in the northern city of Hamburg on Saturday, Sept. 13. Some 2,500 contestants are participating this year in the two-day event, which last year drew an enthusiastic crowd of 80,000 spectators.
 

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