What might have been

Written by eklastic

This weekend would have been our yearly town festival. The old part of the town would be clad in blue and white bunting and the town’s white and blue.

Cancelled to COVID, of course. The photos are an assembly from years past.

Linked to Friday Fun: Flag.

9 thoughts on “What might have been”

    1. Well, although we are a few hours away from Bavaria today, once upon a time Weinheim (it’s in the tags) was part of the Kurpfalz which in its turn was part of the realm of the house of Wittelsbach which had the colours white and blue. That’s why the coat of arms (featured in one of the photos) has the white and blue diamonds on the right (usually associated with Bavaria), the lion on the left is the emblem of the Pfalz or Palatium and today we are actually part of Baden-Württemberg, although on three sides surrounded by the state of Hesse. The golden field at the bottom sports a red “wine ladder” but although Weinheim is in a wine growing area the name of the town does come from a knight called “Wino”. Are you sure you really wanted to know all of this? 😀

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      2. It’s not Bavaria. That would be considered an insult in this area and would get you assualted, verbally of course! 😉 We are politically Badener (belonging to the State of Baden-Württemberg, geographically it’s the State of Hesse (we are surrounded on three sides by them), and language-wise we belong to the Palatium (Pfalz). Complicated, I know. But that is regionalism in Germany for you. And just to round this off, Bavaria has a substantial wine-growing area in the Franken region (near Würzburg) although the people also don’t like to be called Bavarians.

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      4. Yes, even if we call it Fasnacht. The traditions are a bit different in every area but in the south of Germany we celebrate it. In the North – not so much. They lack that gene or something. It’s just before Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Easter, just before the lent fast.

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