When the town of Bensheim started to renovate their historical residential buildings they wrote the names of the occupants and their occupations on them. This particular one has a varied history. It was built by a miller, then a tanner lived there, later a butcher … Continue reading Who Has Lived in This Pretty House?
Only half. Half-timbered, that is. There are lots of these around, this particular yard is in Michelstadt im Odenwald. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Timber
Black and white half timbered house.
Clinker or brickwork house.
Red-brown half timbered house.
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One house in Großsachsen, part of the double community of Hirschberg, with lots of grills in front of its windows. The last photo is not really a window but the door is part of the house, isn’t it.
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This house has been standing in the market square of Ladenburg for over 400 years. Not only is it venerable, it has housed a venerable man.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Venerable
There is this little old house in our street. A couple of years ago it was renovated and the traditional half-timbered upper story was offset by the deep berry coloured groundfloor walls.
A quote from the Book of Proverbs from the Old Testament is written between two wooden beams:
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established. (Solomon - Proverbs: 24:3) Which in the German translation seems more appropriate for an actual house: Through wisdom a house is built, through wit (or sense) it is kept.
And then I saw this house – in a town about 10 km away:
The same colour scheme, the same quotation, the same font.
But which one is an echo of the other?
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Echo.
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