Tag: Denkmal

Verdigris with Personality

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Because Aino asked here is a bit of information about the statues beyond the names in the tags:From left to right: Friedrich Schiller is one oft the two national poets of Germany, like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he lived in the 2nd half of the 18th century. Großherzog Ludwig IV. was a local regent in Hessen in the 19th century. Jran-Baptiste Kléber was the most important general of Napoleon Bonaparte, hailing from the Alsace. The severed head is an allogorical figure from the works of Friedrich Rückert, another German author, same era as Goethe and Schiller. And Großherzog Ludewig I. was an ancestor to the other “Louis” in this collage. The names are mentioned in the tags.

Värikollaasit #438

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They Are just Justs

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The international running group of which I am part is known for its – let’s call it: creative – nicknames. A nickname has to be earned – you come to a few runs, you do something gloriously stupid, you are named. So when you first come to runs you are referred to as a “just”. Just + first name. Hence, these two would have been known as Just Johann and Just Friedrich if they had joined the HHH.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Just

I’m a Fan of Monuments and Pigeons

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At least, when they are just sitting there (the monument looked clean all round).

This is the Alice monument for the Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine in Darmstadt. Incidentally, she was the second eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, HRH Princess Alice Maud Mary of Great Britan and Irleand which – if my thinking is correct – made her the great-great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and also the maternal great-grandmother of her husband, Prince Philip. Her memory is alive and well in Darmstadt as the hospital she founded in 1869 is still going strong; I myself was a patient there for a couple of days a decade ago.

I’m a Fan of … #174

It remains a balancing act

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

This is a monument to honour the victims of violence, war, and persecution by Hubertus von der Goltz. That their precarious position is threatened can be seen by the spikes on either side (I have to go back and get a better photo).

Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by J. Robert Oppenheimer, can be found here.

A toothy perspective

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And while I was remembering Munich yesterday, here is the statue of Bavaria – the lady and her lion who each year (except for this one) overlook the Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese.

My Square Perspective no. 9 is linked to The Life of B.

Put your asperagus on the table

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2011 table b

2011 table c

2011 table a

This sculpted group stands in Lampertheim, a salute to the asperagus farmers and sellers right in the centre of the traditional asperagus growing regions.  I stress traditional because with the advent of plastic covering on fields (and a bit of help from global warming) white asperagus is farmed in many areas of Germany.  In the wide Rhine valley the climate was always favourable and in combination with the sandy soil which has come on southerly winds from the Sahara dessert for aeons it became ideal for this  spring vegetable.  Germans eat “Spargel” with a passion and the season is from early spring until traditionally 24 June in order to give the plants time to recuperate before the next season.  To this day more than half of the German asparagus is sold on roadside stands and in open markets.  

Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Tables, Chairs, Picnic Tables, etc.