Last week a prompt of Ragtag Daily Prompts was “pewter”. My post led me to the connection between windows and drainpipes. And here I am. Monday Window
Tag: Fenster
It’s the most gorgeous magnolia I know
The first photo is from this year, the other two from two years ago, apparently a week or so later in the flowering season. The windows of the house built around 1900 behind are also well worth seeing. Monday Window
Windows of Inns and Hotels in Heidelberg
These are three establishment around the old bridge (Alte Brücke) in Heidelberg, Goldener Hecht (The golden pike), the Hotel Vier-Jahreszeiten (The Hotel Four Seasons), and I don’t know what the traditional name of the now Korean restaurant was.
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Two traditional inns in Frankfurt am Main and their windows
Being an inn with a deep heritage doesn’t mean you have to have beautiful windows.
The Apfelweinwirtschaft Buchscheer (the name is an old name for pasture) is located in Frankfurt Sachsenhausen near the tram and train station Luisa. It’s a traditional inn where one is not able to order a beer, they only serve Ebbelwoi (the German kind of cider). It has a lovely outside sitting area under large trees and the inside is charmingly old but the window are … well, decidedly plain.
The inn Schmärrnche in Frankfurt Bornheim has a similiar long history to look back on. The windows are not particulary elaborate either but at least they tried with the trompe l’oeil sandstone frames.
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Colourful Windows of German Inns
Monday Window
Three times three narrow windows
Thursday Trios
Windows of traditional German inns
Monday Windows
Martinsviertel
Many of the houses in the Martinsviertel in Darmstadt are more storey buildings from around the turn of the century (19th to 20th century, not the millenium). They were not free standing houses but terraced houses, originally with uniform looks. But more than 100 years … Continue reading Martinsviertel
Windows and solar panels
Solar panels have become sensitive enough to make them worthwhile to install even in the middle of Europe (although they do not collect much sun, aka energy, in winter). They often add an odd look to older buildings. A modernised home – the older sandstone … Continue reading Windows and solar panels
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