If you don’t and you’re not that famous, you need a shield.
This is Sodenia, the patron of Bad Soden am Taunus, with the crest of the town featuring the globus crucifer.
Tag: Bad Soden am Taunus
More Hundred Water
Windows this time. Hundertwasserhaus in Bad Soden am Taunus Monday Window
Rich-in-Peace Hundred-Waters Rainy-Day Tenebrous-Colour
The title is the literal translation of the name of the architect.
Wordless Wednesday
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If only It Were Champagne
We were in Bad Soden am Taunus at the weekend, an officially recognised health resort. There 11 mineral springs in the town with various benefits to health, some to be taken internatlly (i.e. drunk) others externally (you can dunk your noggin or your arms in it).
We had a kind of scavenger hunt: empty a beer bottle and collect the waters of various springs (one bottle each).
This is the “Champagne Spring”. On average it is 22°C, it is an official healing spring, the water is used to treat stomach and intestine problems, and also infections in the mouth. It’s acidulous water containing natrium, calcium, chloride, and hydrogen carbonate.
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This Used to Be a Tiny Rivulet
Sometimes a foot wide. Yesterday it was different – the rains in the recent weeks have increased the water to such an extent that there are now eddies and even little waves in the middle. Water, Water Everywhere
Godless and Immoral
“The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.”
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
The architect and artist Hundertwasser was a well known adversary of the straight line, and hence the geometrical grid. The photos are of the Hundertwasser House in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt.
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Quellenpark in Bad Soden am Taunus
The spa garden in Bad Soden has a little brook running through it. The gazebo in the back is where the spa guests used to “take the water” in times gone by.
In the Meadows
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist and architect who had a very distinctive and easily recognisable style. One of the houses he designed is in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt, and it’s called “In the Meadows”. Although he stated that straight lines are “godless and immoral” many of the windows are straight, they certainly are here. Anything else would be too expensive I think.
More information about Friedensreich (which, btw, means “rich in peace”) Hundertwasser can be found here (now with the proper link).
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Longer Days, Here I Come!
Monday Portrait
Rainbow alert
This is a house designed by the architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser from Bad Soden am Taunus.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Colourful buildings.
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