For One Word Sunday: Volume. Other loud photos can be found here.
Tag: Germany
With terrible claws and terrible teeth
There is no such thing as a Gruffalo!
Oh yes, there is! And it lives in our woods. The illustrator Axel Scheffler was there for the Gruffalo’s birthday and the unveiling of the sculpture:
For Six Word Saturday. More six word musings can be found on Travel with Intent.
Garden
Behind the fence there is a garden with a stall selling drinks and snacks.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Garden.
Reach for the digestif
How many people does a building need to ingest before it will start digesting?
The building, known as Stadttor (City Gate), is an office building in Düsseldorf. From 1999 until 2017 the seat of the state-chancellery of the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westfalia was situated here but after the last election the offices were moved back into their former location.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: Archtecture digestif.
Firm stands the watch
The late 19th century, after the Franco-Prussian War which lead to the unification of Germany was a great time to build monuments to the glorification of Germany. One such monuments (I almost wrote monstrosities) is the Niederwald Denkmal in Rüdesheim am Rhein.
It features a more than 12 metres high personification of Germania, holding aloft the laurel crown of the victor and the sword, pointing downward, as well a symbol of victory.
At the foot of the huge figure is this relief of 133 Germans considered important – all of them life-size to give an indication of the size of the monument. Underneath, larger than life, are the Rivers Rhein (male) and Mosel (female), Father Rhine handing the horn of the guardian to his daughter (tributary) Moselle hinting at the land gain of Elsass und Lothringen (Alsace and Lorraine) through the means of war.
The words are the verses of hymn called Die Wacht am Rhein, the watch towards the west, the heriditary enemy France, glorifying the blood that is ready to be spilled for the German Reich. We all know how that ended.
For One Word Sunday: Monumental, on this day of the “open monument” in Germany which will see me looking for less martial examples of monuments.
Circle
Another one from the light show on a cold winter night in park hereabouts.
Linked to Simply Snaps: Simply Circles.
Brown – half timbered house
The house was built by weaver and ribbon maker Hans Schellhorn in 1682 in the town of Bensheim.
Linked to Colour Your World. For more pictures with the shade brown, click here.
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