Tag: Fachwerkhaus

A Visual Echo

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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.

Paint creative

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Two windows from a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald.  These days, this style of architecture is often redone in colour rather than in the customary black/brown and white but I haven’t seen one in terracotta hues before.  Here is the whole house (as often is the case, difficult to photograph because they stand in narrow streets):

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Linked to  One Word Sunday: window.

 

Walls and beams

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I adore half-timbered houses and they are so well suited to monochrome photos because of the stark contrast they display.

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This house stands in the old part of town of Weinheim.

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This one in the even older part of the town (although many don’t know this).  Both are a few hundred years old.

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A farmhouse from the Odenwald showing the typical stone foundation with the half-timbered first floor and a later finished attic floor with shingles.

All these examples are from the southwest of Germany.  But I was in the north a few weeks ago and the styles in houses is completely different.

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The contrast in the brickwork again is ideally suited to monochrome photography.

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Contrast it is also with this heavily ornamented house.

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The sepia-toned photography makes this house – it is part of the monastry of Lorsch, a UNESCO world heritage site – timeless.  It could have been taken 100 years ago, or last summer (which it was).

This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge with the subject of — houses.