“With monuments as with men, position means everything.” Honoré de Balzac Wednesday Quotes: Monuments
Tag: Frankfurt a.M.
When Eintracht Frankfurt Won the Championship
It was 1959 when the football club of Frankfurt, die Eintracht, finished top of the Bundesliga. They probably didn’t think it would not happen again for the next 65 years (and it won’t happen this year, either). So they immortalised the headline from that year … Continue reading When Eintracht Frankfurt Won the Championship
Windows of Bergen-Enkheim
Bergen-Enkheim is a part of Frankfurt which looks as if it exists in another time. It looks like a village with little crooked lanes, old one-storey houses, some renovated, some in dire need of some paint and mortar. I’m afraid with the surrounding city, the … Continue reading Windows of Bergen-Enkheim
Carnival Parade
Carnival is a time of public enjoyment and entertainment when people wear unusual clothes, dance, and eat and drink, usually in the streets of a city. Particularly the unadulterated enjoyment can be seen on the faces of these participants. Helau! (That’s the traditional cry of the Fassenacht … Continue reading Carnival Parade
There I Was, Minding My Own Business
Every now and then one comes unexpectedly across a really strange creature.
This delightful critter is the creation of Kurt Halbritter and is called a barefooter (Barfüßer) or pedarius nudus peregrinatorum. Halbritter made sketches of the barefooter in the 1970s, and in 2016 Siegfried Böttcher made it into a bronze sculpture. It now stands and waits to surprise unsuspecting strollers in the Brentano Park in Frankfurt as part of several art objects titled “Comical Art”.
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It Will Do in a Cinch
Those are the bike repair stations on the new cycle highway near Frankfurt. It has shelter, tools, a stand and air – better than your average private garage workshop.
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