Tag: Jahreszahlen

Dates

119 a

The water  level marked on an old house from a flooding in 1875.

119 b

A mural created by a school class in 2015.

119 c

A keystone with the year 1743 marked out.

119 d

The (most likely) dates of birth and death of Johannes Bückler, better known as Schinderhannes, painted on a house in the area where he used to live as an outlaw and robber.  There are many legends (and five movies) about the man, making him into a more modern German version of Robin Hood which are in all probability not true.

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything with numbers on it.  More numbered photos can be found here.

999

Date me

Builders often write the year the house was built, often together with their name or initials, somewhere over a door or a window.  This is just a small collection from close to where I live, all done in rose-tinted sandstone, which is often used in our area.

21 past b
1800: The entry to the house, next to the “Fuchs’sche Mühle” (Foxes Mill) in Weinheim

21 past a
1838: A door lintel in Schriesheim

21 past d
1902-3: a pediment in art nouveau style in Schwetzingen

Georg Stefani 1914
1914: A window lintel in Lützelsachsen

for Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past

https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/thursdays-special-traces-of-the-past-y3-09/