I found these covered-up windows in Wiesbaden-Biebrich. They look so very art nouveau and although only put in later it almost certainly correlates with the age of the building.
Linked to Monday Window. More windows of any kind are linked here.
Tag: Germany
Alarm bell and hose drying tower
Six words that are only one word in German: Feuerschlauchtrockenturmglocke:
Linked to Six Word Saturday. For more six words and accompanying photos, click here.
Tourist magnet
This is the old bridge in Heidelberg leading over the river Neckar last week. Not completely deserted as the lock down in Germany has been lifted to some degree, was never as strict as in many other countries.
This is what it looks like in normal times, bustling with people at any given time.
Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The world in lock down.
Love on a hard concrete bench
For once a whole story with my Six Word Saturday photo. I took this photo (and many others) in a not quite savoury part of Mannheim near the old harbour, an area bordering on the brink of gentrification.
While I was snapping away I heard a gruff voice in my back (please excuse the language, it was rather unsavoury, too): “Straighten your back and put your arse out!” I turned round with clenched cheeks, unsure how I should react when I saw two burly, bearded men who could have easily posed for this sprayed graffiti and who were using an old bollard as a impromptu gym machine and urging each other on.
Double entendres everywhere.
Linked to Six Word Saturday where you can find more sixer with or without accompanying stories.
Long Louis
The central place in Darmstadt is the Luisenplatz with this 33 metre tall column supporting a bronze statue of Ludwig I, first Grand Duke of Hesse, erected in the middle of the 19th century. The people of Darmstadt call it Langer Lui, meaning Long Ludwig, on account of its size (or length).
Today it is surrounded by buildings erected after the second world war as the centre of Darmstadt was almost completely destroyed in one night in 1944. In the firestorm created by allied bombers approximately 11 ,000 to 12,500 of the inhabitants burned to death, and 66,000 to 70,000 were left homeless. The palace behind the column was erased and in its place is now a shopping mall.
Langer Ludwig
Langer Lui
Ludwig from the bottom and almost at eye level from a neighbouring multi-storey car park.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: things that are long.
I’m a fan of Bismarck
First of all, I’m a fan of serendipity. Let me explain …
This is the Springbok hooker Bismarck du Plessis, warming up for the match against Scotland in the 2015 Rugby World Cup in Newcastle, one of the two international rugby matches I watched in my life.
This is what he looked like in the match, a bit more dignified:
Bismarck is the guy on the right. He has been in the (rugby) news lately in South Africa as his merits were discussed in an all-time best Springbok team.
And then last week I was on a hike passing the Bismarck tower in Heidelberg:
One of many, many monuments that were built in Germany to honour the “Iron Chancellor” Otto von Bismarck. It is said that more monuments have been erected for him in Germany than for any emperor, king philosopher, or poet. And this in mainly 20 years, from 1890 to 1910. Somehow most of these monuments turned out to be towers but on the Feldberg, the highest mountain of the Black Forest, they build a kind of cairn with a relief of Bismarck:
In my hometown we only managed a bust – which has a curious history. It was supposed to be melted down during the second world war when metal for grenades and the like had come into short supply. It was only rediscovered in 1961 and now stands in a little, unassuming park.
And then, there was that recent pub quiz (zoom version) where I scored biggly because I knew the name of the capital of the US state of North Dakota.
Linked to I’m a fan of … #67 . More fanatical photos can be found here.
A ruin must be rightly situated
to be effective. This one could not have been better placed. – That’s what Mark Twain said about the Heidelberg castle.
For Six Word Saturday. More six words and accompanying photo(s) to be found here.
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