Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges
The Bridges of the Lower Neckar
Tag: Germany
Another Mythical Creature
And there I was thinking that selkies are Celtic by origin and are found in the North Sea, on the shores of Ireland and Scotland, and not in the sweat waters of the river Neckar. And then I found a Selkie with a Heidelberg license number.
Linked in Spirit
There is a word in the dialect of the German southwest that sounds quite similar to eldritch: Elwetritsche. Etymologically they are not related, but there are certain similarities (besides one being an adjective, the other one a noun).
Both words have a connection to the mythical, the not-quite-explainable. Elwetritsche are said to have come about by cross-breeding wood spirits such as elves and goblins with domestic fowl. Somewhere along the lines, some also acquired antlers. Hunting them is great fun but one should avoid them at night when one is alone. A meeting might be quite scary or even dangerous, if not quite as horror-inducing as what eldritch suggests.
Being descendants of fowl they lay eggs. The one just about to hatch inspired me to whip out my crayons.
In the Meadows
Friedensreich Hundertwasser was an Austrian artist and architect who had a very distinctive and easily recognisable style. One of the houses he designed is in Bad Soden am Taunus, west of Frankfurt, and it’s called “In the Meadows”. Although he stated that straight lines are “godless and immoral” many of the windows are straight, they certainly are here. Anything else would be too expensive I think.
More information about Friedensreich (which, btw, means “rich in peace”) Hundertwasser can be found here (now with the proper link).
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Longer Days, Here I Come!
Monday Portrait
Places of Remembrance
This is the war grave memorial in Modautal. There are other cemeteries in Europe with graves from soldiers and civilians of many nations of the two world wars in the 20th century to remember these victims. They should be memorials not so much of “lest we forget” but rather of “never again”. Sadly, it hasn’t worked.
I’m a Fan of Donkeys
Eeyore, Donkey, Mistlletoe, Sylvester … the one in Aesop’s fable, the one from the Town Musicians from Bremen. All of them.
And the cherry donkey on the top:
We Don’t Need More Memorials
War memorials often show soldiers or warriors or national emblems. This one in Guttach in the Black Forest shows the survivors.
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