“What is the art of healing other than a daily service of love and charity to advance the wellbeing of the suffering!”
Johann Christian Senckenberg
Senckenberg, a physician, naturalist, and collector, set up a foundation and to this day the noted natural history museum in Frankfurt carries his name. He was instrumental in establishing the first proper hospital in Frankfurt in the mid 18th century. The walls on the ground floor are decorated with quotes by him.
Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe are the two poets and authors who were on the forefront of establishing the reputation of Germany as the “country of poets and thinkers”. Schiller was born in Marbach in Swabia. He fell foul of the repression of the small country of Württemberg so he fled to neighbouring Baden where he had his debut play premiered in Mannheim.
So in Mannheim I found the youngest statue of Schiller, showing him when he was about 23 – and his big success “The Robbers” premiered.
The Frankfurt statue of Schiller shows him a few years older.
He lived his last years in Weimar where his contemporary Wolfgang von Goethe was established as a politician and the reigning literature god.
Goethe supported him somewhat and the two collaborated during the years they spent together in Weimar.
He died early , only 36 years old.
Balconies in the centre of the town of Heidelberg.
And in Frankfurt – more green, less flowers.
The townhall balcony in Lampertheim – geraniums are the perennial favourites for balcony gardening.
This is more colourful, seen in Ladenburg.
More geraniums, in Weinheim.
No flowers at all, yet the feeling is definitely “holiday in Balconia”.
The old part of the town of Weinheim is built on an incline. The rooms behind the lower row of balconies are street level on the other side of the house. It looks even higher when shown with the more modern houses in front:
Linked with Friendly Friday: balconies.
Behind the fence there is a garden with a stall selling drinks and snacks.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Garden.
Actually, there are, as you can see, at least three. I saw the above sculpture on a tombstone in an exhibition for graveyard designs. While I think it’s cool I wonder if anybody chose this as an actual tombstone.
Is DEATH crying?
I took this picture with my phone. I keep telling myself that I have to go back to this mural with a proper camera. It is near the home of the Frankfurt football club “Eintracht” – where else?
For One Word Sunday: skull. More skulls can be found here.
The Kronenhochhaus (crowned skyscraper) in Frankfurt, Germany, from the side
and from below.
A three-bowed bridge crossing the Neckar near Ladenburg in Southwest Germany.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: curves and circles.
More curvy and round subjects can be found here.
There once was an American airfield (Maurice Rose Airfield) in the north of Frankfurt. It was used for helicopters and light aircraft. It was given up in 1992 and the area was actively reformed to become part of the Frankfurt green belt, a landscape conservation area. The runway was made narrower but the length of 750 metres was kept.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. For more streets, avenues, paths, roads click on the badge: 
Trains and tracks for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenges. More trains and tracks can be found here.
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