This group of teenage gosslings caught my eye yesterday. They’re obviously siblings and haven’t yet learned to scare others away when there is food around.
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Traces of history
Ladenburg was called Lopodunum in Roman times and an important town in the region. Many streets were named to remember this past. Some of the street signs come with explanations.
Titus Vlavius Vespasianus was Emperor when the first wooden fort was built.
During the time of Emperor Domitian the fort was rebuilt in stone.
Emperor Trajan elevated Lopodunum to a town and is considered the founder.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Roman poet from Burdigala (Bordaux, France) in the 4th century. In his poem Mosella Lopodunum was mentioned for the first time in a literary text.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the limes in this region built, to safeguard the Roman settlements.
There were to men called Januarius documented in Ladenburg, a decurio (soldier) and a magister pagi (a town official).
Mithras was a Persian, later Roman sun god. A stone relief depicting him was found in Ladenburg.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of streets, alleys, paths, avenues, and street signs can be found here.
Tapir
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Wars are never won
This war memorial – commemorating the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 – stands in front of the St Laurentius Church in Weinheim. As in many towns all over Germany, memorials went up to celebrate this particular war and Kaiser Wilhelm I. A German historian talked of this as the epidemic of monuments brought forth by Germany’s boastful besottedness with national ideals (file:///C:/Users/nukman/AppData/Local/Temp/12240-21601-1-PB.pdf) and I am not at all fond of these glorifications of war.
There is a humorous side note to this particular one. Johann Wilhelm Goos, a miller in town, was considered to be the epitome of manhood and chosen to be the model for the charging soldier. He later emigrated to America with his family, where he became wealthy. To this day, descendants of Johann Goos come to Weinheim and want to see what their ancestor looked like.
This is a more comprehensive look of the church overlooking the market square.
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A new building in town
I came upon this odd structure yesterday. It’s on a company’s ground which has just changed its corporate colours (flags everywhere!). The bright colours urged me to fool around a bit.
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The Eastern mind is circular
This is looking up in the dome of the Red Mosque in the castle grounds in Schwetzingen, Germany. This mosque was build in 18th century and never intended as a place of religious worship, rather as an expression of the time’s fascination with all thing oriental.
For One Word Sunday: circle. More circular, round or rounded photos can be found here.
After the rain
Another series for Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of road, streets, avenues, paths, can be found here.
No pain, no train
Trains and tracks for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges. More trains and tracks can be found here.
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