Tag: Klinker

Clinker

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Hildebrandsche Mühle

This building is what is left over of a mill built in the late 19th century.  It was built in contrasting brickface and looked and still looks striking – now with trees growing from the walls.

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Hildebrandt'sche Mühle

The bricks of the chimneys, although rectangular in shape, were laid round.

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Hildebrandt'sche Mühle

The window panes are long gone after several generations of youngsters have used them for target practice but the contrasting brickworks still peek through the trees.

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Close by are other houses in clinker brick.bw bricks 7

The chimneys are square though in the newer buildings

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as are the cellar windows.

Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: bricks and stones.

 

 

Variation of a theme

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It’s not one of my better pictures but it has the yellow bricks, the red, the bush, the window.  Just not necessarily in that order.

This is for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and was inspired by this photo:

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Stoney faces

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The coarse stones and coarser roof tiles of the “Blaue Hut”, one of the three remaining towers of the medieval town wall of Weinheim.  The name comes from the slate tiles of the original roof.
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Smooth clinker around the modern, gothic inspired window of the church St. Marien in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.
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Course sandstone bricks forming the base of a half-timbered house in the Odenwald.
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The structured front of the Königshalle of the Lorsch Abbey built in the ninth century is the oldest monument of Carolingian architecture.  It is a UNESCO world heritage site.

for The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Textures.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/textures/