This sculpture called “Death by the Midgard Serpent” by Wolfram Diehl is displayed near the German Dragon Museum in Lindenfels. Jörmungandr or the World Serpent was indeed a lethal creature who would destroy the world simply by letting go of its tail. It could also kill with its fangs and its poison, and would in the end kill Thor during the events of Ragnarök, the end of the world as we know it.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Lethal
The Sea of Stones in the Lautertal is a magnificent natural wonder of the Odenwald. There is geological explanation and a mythical one about two giants hurtling stones at each other.
And just to make sure that you do not think I am showing you close-ups of some pebbles, let me add something for scale:
A couple of weeks ago juxtaposed the new and old parts of Schloss Fürstenau in Steinbach. Here are some of the windows from the various buildings.
The clear cut classical lines of the new palais with the black and gilded lattice look perfect with the white walls offest by the grey frames (I have no idea what the colours originally were).
Dormer windows jutting out of the slate tiled roof and the wide bay window in sandstone.
My favourite windows are the skew ones in the old part which are on the outside of a staircase.
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I remember seeing this sculpture in Darmstadt and I saw it as a geometric structure, a circle filled with cubic shapes. It is located in front of the Staatstheater at the Georg-Büchner-Platz. It’s called Grande Disco, by Arnaldo Pomodoro.
The landmark of Darmstadt can be seen in the middle, a pictorial rendering of the Hochzeitsturm (wedding tower) which is also called the Fünf-Finger-Turm (five finger tower). This tower is a superb example of art nouveau architecture, a work all by itself.
However, when I prepared this post and I looked at the thumbnail of the photo, i.e. a very small version of the photo, all I could see was a flower.
My bicycle needed a service and while it was being worked on in the shop I walked around the town of Dossenheim. It started drizzling so I had to pack the camera away early but I managed to snap a few windows just before.
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That’s the vista from the castle ruin in Königstein in Taunus. Frankfurt’s skyscrapers are about 20km away, and behind them in the distance are the hills of the Odenwald.
It’s still warm during the day but the morning cannot deny that autumn is on its way.
This is not Bavaria the country but the female personification of the country (or German state) as she looks over Munich, the Bavarian capital.
She stand over 18 metres tall and weighs almost 90 tons.
She towers over the Wiesn, officially called Theresienwiese – a large, barren place that in September each year (except when COVID is around) is covered by beer tents and amusement rides and turns into the largest and oldest Oktoberfest of the world.
To the north is St Paul’s Church with three imposing spires.
And just a bit to the right the iconic towers of the Frauenkirche, the Cathedral of Our Dear Lady, can be seen over the roofs of the nearby houses.
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