Tag: Ladenburg

Travel Challenge #8

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I was nominated by Teresa  and by Margaret to post one travel picture a day for ten days without explanation, then to nominate someone else to participate. That’s 10 days, 10 travel images, and 10 nominations. 

The photos I am going to show in this challenged are from travels around Germany and where chosen to introduce my German language students to various German sites.

Scheduling doesn’t seem to work – so erractically: here is the eighth one:

No Christmas stress, no nomination. Join in if you don’t have anything else you would rather be doing.

Scheduling doesn’t seem to work – so erractically:

Windows in Sauer’s place

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A half-timbered house in Ladenburg in the south west of Germany was the birthplace of Johann Christoph Sauer.

The plaque on the house is in German, Pennsylvania Dutch and English explaining about Johann Sauer.

Sauer was a Pennsylvania-German printer who in 1743 printed the first German bible in America known as the “Sauer Bible”.

Linked to Monday Window.

Throughout the ages

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This mural was created in 2005 on the walls of an underpass by a dedicated arts class of the local Carl-Benz-Gymnasium in Ladenburg. It illustrates figures from the history of the town.  Here are the figures in historical sequence:

  • Ladenburg was founded by the Romans and an important centre from about 100 – 300 A.D.
  • The Roman period was followed by medieval courts with knights, ladies and jesters.
  • In the 13th and 14th century Ladenburg was the centre of conflict between the bishops of Worms and the Pfalzgrafen (Count Palatines).
  • In 1817, Karl  Freiherr von Drais invented a forerunner (sic!) of the bicycle and his first ride took place from Mannheim to Schwetzingen passing Ladenburg.
  • Transportation stayed important as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first automobile, lived here and his wife Bertha Benz undertook the first long distance ride of 106 km in 1888 in the area.
  • The next figures show children at play, a dog, a girl in a 50s pettycoat with a cigarette in her hand, an 80s punk, and a millenial – possibly a self-image of the creators of the mural.

And in case you missed the cat:

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For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: graffiti & murals.

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Framed!

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“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”

Garry Winogrand

2009 frame d

Step through the frame and find out (Leazes Park in Newcastle).

2009 frame f

And he stepped through the frame.

2009 frame e

In Ladenburg they have these signs all over town to show how the landscape was changed to make paths and parks more inviting.  On the left are photos of what it looked before and it can be compared with the reality today.  It was found that just putting up the photos wouldn’t be enough, so a frame was offered, similar to the frame of the old photograph to make the views comparable.  Because a frame changes things.

A frame also helps to focus the attention.  Or possibly, it allows people to cope with nature if they are used to seeing things only framed ?

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Linked to Travel with Intent.  More photos inspired by the quotation by G. Winogrand (what a wonderful name!)  are collected here.