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Tag: Bensheim
Who Has Lived in This Pretty House?
When the town of Bensheim started to renovate their historical residential buildings they wrote the names of the occupants and their occupations on them. This particular one has a varied history. It was built by a miller, then a tanner lived there, later a butcher … Continue reading Who Has Lived in This Pretty House?
A Count with an Odd Name
This is the tower of the Auerbach Castle near Bensheim, seen through the lattice works of bare winter trees.
It was originally built in the 8th century and fell into ruin once before but was rebuilt under the reign of Count Diether IV of the Katzenelnbogen in the 13th century. Katzenelnbogen literally means “cat’s ellbow”. Go figure.
I took my inspiration today from the ruined abbey as seen by Sue on her odd post.
Enlightened Story Telling
In the old part of the town of Bensheim the streetlamps are decorated with cut-outs from local stories, old and new.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lamp
Merry Go Round
Since one of the words in Paula’s Thursday’s Special Pick a Word was CONTINUITY I thought I start with a circle because every photos has two of the words in it.
The Red Mosque situated in the palace gardens of the Schwetzingen Castle is turned inward with continuing elements: INWARD + CONTINUITY.
The Walderdorffer Hof in Bensheim, build around 1395 is considered to be the oldest completely preserved half-timbered house in the southern part of the state of Hesse: CONTINUITY + REFLECTION.
One of the high rise buildings in Frankfurt am Main, a stronghold of the European banking industry: REFLECTING + STRONGHOLD.
Veste Otzberg on a hill in the Odenwald was built as a stronghold and can only be reached on foot: STRONGHOLD + PEDESTRIAN.
Whether you consider the walk of this tortoise pedestrian or its whole demeanour pedestrian there is no doubt that this animal can turn inward if it needs to be: PEDESTRIAN + INWARD.
Thursday Special: Pick a Word
Never go upstairs empty handed
is apparently a saying of English nannies working in the US according to the web. It is also advice that Meryl Streep credits her mother for (I can’t find a source but I remember this from an interview with her). Some stairs just seem to have been built to illustrate this.
I add a photo I’ve used before (as a square top) to drive the point home:
Not quite a bushel of wheat
The farmer with the sickle and the sheaf of spikes of wheat is one of four figures at the bottom of the fountain on the market place in Bensheim. St George, the patron saint of the town, and his dragon form the centre piece on top of a column.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Harvest.
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