The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.
This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.
This storefront is from Schwetzingen, a small town in the southwest of Germany. The shop is selling paints, fabric, and carpeting.
This is for Monday Mural.
I seem to find these more traditional murals around here.
This one – from the old part of town of “Newtown an der Weinstraße” in Rhineland Pallatium, Germany – is called “Phantastische Allegorie zu Neustadt und der Lebensfreude” (Phantastic allegorie about Neustadt and zest for life). It was created by Werner Holz for H. Grübius (both names appear in the picture). I’m not sure about the date, I believe I can read 1990something, the artist died in 1991.
More Monday Murals can be found here.
Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge asked for “lines and angles”.
I adore half-timbered houses.
Win-win – don’t you think?
All these were taken in the South and Southwest of Germany.
If not, scroll down. I will help you.
For Cee’s “Just a fun challenge“. The topic is “hidden“.
If you want to find out more about this wonderful place, take look here: https://englishspeakingodenwald.blogspot.de/2017/08/felsenmeer-odenwalds-sea-of-stones.html
I saw this a couple of years ago in Neustadt/Dosse in Brandenburg, Germany. I couldn’t find a local who could (or would) explain to me what the creator of the piece was protesting against. Apparently, he or she or some organisation wrote applications yearly from 2000 onwards, which were filed and denied, and in 2004 the matter was finally closed, whether by death of the process itself or a person involved I don’t know.
for: Monday Mural
http://oaklanddailyphoto.blogspot.de/2017/09/monday-mural-slam-dunk.html
This is the war cemetery in Brandau im Odenwald. 461 dead from the first and second world war are buried here, among them soldiers, known and unknown, of various nationalities, forced labourers and displaced persons, e.g. survivors from concentration camps who did not return to their homes. Tragically, there are also a few graves of children who were born during this time to mothers who were deported and forced to work in Germany. The cemetery is cared for by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., a humanitarian organisation whose tasks include caring for cemeteries in Germany and looking after graves of German soldiers and war victims outside of Germany, also helping relatives to locate graves of missing family members.
The driving ethics behind the organisation is to work for peace.
The inscription in the chapel reads: Our sacrifice – your duty – peace.
A list of all the graves and the people buried is kept in the wall and can be consulted by visitors to the graveyard. The individual graves are marked with names, dates, nationalities and, in the case of German soldiers, with their ranks.
The sign of the organisation with the details for donation. The words are the beginning of the German Basic Constitutional Law: “Human dignity is inviolable.”
I have an ulterior motive with my 6 word musings this Saturday. I was walking in the woods yesterday when this little creature ran in front of me on the path. It was tiny, totally unperturbed, meeping in a high voice, and following ants on which it pounced and ate one after the other. I think it was either a wood mouse or a bank vole – but the size still puzzles me. Its body was just an inch long, the tail about another inch. Any of the animals I checked up on are normally bigger. Or was this a baby who was still learning to keep under cover and keep quite? I hope it learned fast. Anyway, if somebody knows for sure what I saw I’d appreciate to hear from you.
The area was a fairly well frequented part of a large arboretum with exotic trees from all over the world, beech varieties are also included, pretty close to a town, in southwest Germany (Weinheim an der Bergstraße). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotenwald
for: Six Word Saturday
Looking out from the Odenwald in Hesse over the upper Rhine valley. The wind turbines are all on the other side of the Rhine in the State of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate) where politics were much more conducive to develop renewable power alternatives.
For OneWordSunday:
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