Tag: Fachwerk

Bringing in some colour

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Rathaus Lützelsachsen

It used to be that half timbered meant dark wood and white washed panels in between but in recent years colour has come into play.

  • Barbier in Bensheim
  • Stadttambour Tüncher in Bensheim
  • Lindenfels
  • Michelstadt

At first it took me a bit to get used to it but when it works, it works.

  • Seckenheim
  • Heppenheim

Linked to Monday Window.

Windows of a renovated Rathaus

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The townhall (Rathaus) of Lützelsachsen was built from 1674 to 1688 and renovated in 1808.  And then it was renovated during the last couple of years.  And now there are functional windows, old fashioned windows, and modern windows.  Decide for yourself if you think it works.

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2015 rathaus e

 

Rathaus

 

Rathaus

This is what it looked like a year ago or so.

2015 rathaus i

And this is what it looks like today.  There is no mayor residing in it anymore since Lützelsachsen became part of the town Weinheim.

Rathaus

And that’s the view from the back with the cars still able to drive underneath the mayor’s former office – with two beautiful windows looking down on traffic.

Linked to Monday Window.

 

 

When life was different

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I took new photos of something old.  Michelstadt is a quaint little town in the Odenwald, the lower mountain range to the east of the Upper Rhine Valley.  The old houses, particularly the half timbered ones, are so well suited to monochrome photography because of their contrasting structures.  These photos are of the town wall encircling the inner part of the town.  I chose a filter, inexplicably called “bandicoot” in my editing program, which is not as stark as black and white, yet not as mellow as sepia.

This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything new.