Tag: half timbered

More Geometric Timber

You don’t know the half of it! The town hall of Lorsch, about 60 km south of Frankfurt. A half timbered house in the Odenwald. A half timbered house with carvings and geraniums in Frankonia. Geometric Square #28

Traditional Is Best

or is it?

A traditional half-timbered house with dark wood, white wash and white framed, rectangular windows with small panels

vs. a colourful half-timbered structure with green framed windows with one singular panel.

What do you like better?

Monday Window

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Bringing in some colour

Rathaus Lützelsachsen

It used to be that half timbered meant dark wood and white washed panels in between but in recent years colour has come into play.

At first it took me a bit to get used to it but when it works, it works.

Linked to Monday Window.

Windows of a renovated Rathaus

The townhall (Rathaus) of Lützelsachsen was built from 1674 to 1688 and renovated in 1808.  And then it was renovated during the last couple of years.  And now there are functional windows, old fashioned windows, and modern windows.  Decide for yourself if you think it works.

2015 rathaus f

2015 rathaus e

 

 

Rathaus

This is what it looked like a year ago or so.

2015 rathaus i

And this is what it looks like today.  There is no mayor residing in it anymore since Lützelsachsen became part of the town Weinheim.

Rathaus

And that’s the view from the back with the cars still able to drive underneath the mayor’s former office – with two beautiful windows looking down on traffic.

Linked to Monday Window.