Small distances or longer distances, the look is down.
Do I dare to jump or not? Maybe best NOT to look down.
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Below Me, Yet not Inferior
Tag: Dossenheim
The Name Says It All
This is the panorama from the castle ruin Schauenburg above the town of Dossenheim at the Bergstraße. Schauen means “looking” in German, and one can see the Upper Rhine Valley, from Odenwald to Palatinate Forest, with Mannheim and Ludwigshafen in between. Although to be honest, … Continue reading The Name Says It All
Silver Was the Reward of Toil
in the ancient silver mines. I wonder if the hardship was really worth it.
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Lest We Forget
A poignant trio this Thursday. These stolpersteine (literally: stumbling stones) can be found in front of apartment or business houses were people used to live before they were deported and killed by the Nazi regime. I came upon these particular three in a town to the south of ours, as part of a remembrance campaign on 9 November, 83 years after the November pogroms in Germany. The English Wikipedia still calls it “Kristallnacht” (or “night of broken glass”), a term no longer used in Germany as it is considered a euphemism that does not do justice to the events.
Nevertheless, if you are interested in stolpersteine wikipedia is a good start to get information.
Windows in Dossenheim
My bicycle needed a service and while it was being worked on in the shop I walked around the town of Dossenheim. It started drizzling so I had to pack the camera away early but I managed to snap a few windows just before.
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