This weekend would have been our yearly town festival. The old part of the town would be clad in blue and white bunting and the town’s white and blue.
Cancelled to COVID, of course. The photos are an assembly from years past.
Linked to Friday Fun: Flag.
I never realised that listen and silent are anagrams. And doesn’t this quiet river bend just beg one to be silent and listen?
All the more remarkable because this is in the middle of Frankfurt, a city with three quarters of a million inhabitants, in a part called Bonames. The name goes back to Roman times, probably meaning that there was a bona mansio, a good wayside inn when a Roman highroad led past the area. Not far from this idyllic stretch of the river Nidda was the old Frankfurt airport which was used until 1992 as a helicopter airport by the US American army.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Quiet.
Student fraternities in Germany have elaborate coats of arms. The members of the “Weinheimer Seniorenconvent” have theirs displayed in the great hall of celebrations of the Wachenburg in Weinheim. Many of the mottos include friendship.
Personally, I don’t hold with the often rightwing positions of those traditional fraternities (somewhat ironic as many have their roots in the revolutionary times around 1830 with then revolutionary ideals) so I rather go with this:
It doesn’t have to be alcohol, just sit together and share a glass and a talk.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Friendship.
Rider and horse stand by the roadside, very unassuming. The size is deceptive as the figure is not even a metre high (discounting the pedestal). I couldn’t find anything about the artist.
Seen in Heiligkreuz, a village, little bigger than a hamlet, in the Odenwald.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Carvings, sculptures and statues.
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
The quote by Flaubert is not only applicable to space but also to time. This basilica dates back to the 9th century, one of the few remnants of Carolingian architecture north of the Alps.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by Flaubert’s quote, click here.
I was out on my bike tonight at around sunset and caught the Red Tower with the wide Rhine valley behind it just at the right moment. It is one of three still remaining towers which were part of the town wall of Weinheim.
Linked to A Photo a Week: Tower.
Linked to the Ragtag Daily Prompt: Sand castle,
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.”
Thomas Huxley
This mural was conceived and transferred to the highrise building by the internationally acclaimed Bahaider. He based it on working with students from this area in Mannheim, who expressed their different ethnic and cultural heritage in drawings. He wanted to remind us that living together peacefully doesn’t happen intuitively but needs mutual respect and tolerance, in a neighbourhood where people with backgrounds of more than 127 nations live. The piece is called Nationen in Frieden (Nations in Peace).
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by the quote from Thomas Huxley, click here.
A graffiti in an underpass near the location shown: Louisa station in Frankfurt.
Not far away, a train crosses in front of a modern office building.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Anything to do with trains and railroads.
All these twin windows are from Steinbach, a small village which is part of the small town of Michelstadt im Odenwald. One can see that many of the older houses have shingles on the face of the buildings which is typical for the area.
And last not least the windows in the 1200-year-old basilica in the village, designed by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. They are reinforced today and would not have had those bars in Einhard’s time.
Linked to Monday Window where more windows can be found.
pictures imperfect blog 