
This parish hall in Schriesheim has been changed into a café and a meeting venue (still under the auspices of the neighbouring protestant church), The windows have mostly stayed the same.

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Traditional costume from the Alsace.
Odenwälder and Bergsträßer traditional costume.
Non-specific traditional costume from the South and Southwest of Germany.


These murals in Lindenfels are badly faded, I enhanced them with photo shop. The left picture depicts the traditional costume of Lindenfels in the Odenwald; the right picture shows young women from Moëlan sur Mer in traditional Breton costume. The two towns are twinned.
Another version of Odenwald costume from Neunkirchen, the highest village in the Hessian part of the Odenwald, part of the community of Modautal.
We had the first autumn storm blustering over our area. It didn’t bring much rain, at least around here, but the winds were quite strong and there was damage to some trees. Today the last of the clouds were passing overhead.

Not a smooth but rather a spiky frog, well weathered – and reminding everybody that the villagers of Laudenbach have been known as “the frogs” for many years past.
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