This forest is at the top of the hill Blättersberg, the hill where the castle ruin Rietburg is situated above the town of Edenkoben in the Palatinate (Pfalz). It’s overgrown by moss and looks quite primeval in places. I had planned a different Monochrome Madness … Continue reading When Urwald Meets Pfälzer Wald
Classical columns in Wiesbaden, Hesse, near the Friedrich-Ebert-Allee. Nature vs. construction – in Baden-Württemberg. Freestanding vs. supportive – in Hesse and Bavaria. Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Columns or Vertical Lines
A chair lift cuts a path through the trees. It crosses the paths for those who want to hike up the hill or run down. It also offers the passengers a view of the roads in the distance. The look from above. Walking up the … Continue reading Up the Hill
Rietberg is a hilltop in the front row of the Palatinate Forest and thus overlooking the Upper Rhine Valley. One can ride an old rickety chair lift or walk up to the Rietburg, a fortress built in the 13th century. The actual top behind the … Continue reading The Enchanted Forest on top of the Rietberg
Water, Water Everywhere
In the Palatinate Forest is a chair lift that looks as if it came write out of the 50s. Cellpic Sunday
Rain moving over the Rhine Valley. Wet empty space around a cormorant as well as dry empty space around a two-seater airplane. Looking out from the Riedburg near Edenkoben into the clouds. The Carolingian church of the Lorsch Abbey, a UNESCO heritage site. I keep … Continue reading Empty But Not Meaningless
I don’t normally use my cell phone for photography except for classroom purposes (homework, tests, attendance lists and the like) but I’ve been so mixed-up lately that I managed to take not two but three empty camera batteries along on our last outing.
But have a look – is this photo really from the era of cell phones? It looks vintage, doesn’t it?
King Ludwig I. of Bavaria built a classicist villa above the village of Edenkoben in the Palatinate (part of Bavaria in the mid 19th century) and below the castle ruin of Riedburg. The villa offers a panoramic view across the Rhine Valley to the Odenwald on the other side of the river. In 1954 a chair lift was built to the top of the hill. The pamphlet proclaims that the chairlift is technically up-to-date but the newest thing we could find were the “please wear a mask” Corona warnings which were stuck to the masts. The seats looked decidedly prehistoric, and kind of unsafe, and a bit rusty. But there has never been an accident in 67 years and apparently, the modern technical side is hidden behind the scenes.
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