Author: eklastic

Zu alt, um nur zu spielen. Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein.

No pane windows

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Hexenturm in Weinheim

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Burgruine Königstein

Strahlenburg

More Burgruine Königstein.

Burg Königstein

Also Burgruine Königstein.

For Monday Windows.  More window shots can be found here.

 

 

Nothing to rival the Beatles

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This soldier of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870/71 was a minor celebrity in his town when they looked for a model for the war memorial which was erected in 1890.  He was a miller by profession and considered the most beautiful man around.  Not long afterwards he emigrated to the US, apparently smuggling valuables in the nappies of his numerous children. If that is true I don’t know but he came to wealth in the US and his family not only grew to riches but also in numbers.  To this day the town of Weinheim hosts descendants of this beautiful man about once a year when they come and want to see what their great-great-great-grandfather looked like.

I’ve featured him before here.

And here is a slightly fuzzy close up of him – jugde for yourself if he conforms with your idea of beauty.

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For One Word Sunday: Famous. More photos of famous people can be found here.

Dates

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The water  level marked on an old house from a flooding in 1875.

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A mural created by a school class in 2015.

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A keystone with the year 1743 marked out.

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The (most likely) dates of birth and death of Johannes Bückler, better known as Schinderhannes, painted on a house in the area where he used to live as an outlaw and robber.  There are many legends (and five movies) about the man, making him into a more modern German version of Robin Hood which are in all probability not true.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with numbers on it.  More numbered photos can be found here.

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