The Kronenhochhaus (crowned skyscraper) in Frankfurt, Germany, from the side
and from below.
A three-bowed bridge crossing the Neckar near Ladenburg in Southwest Germany.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: curves and circles.
More curvy and round subjects can be found here.
Ladenburg was called Lopodunum in Roman times and an important town in the region. Many streets were named to remember this past. Some of the street signs come with explanations.
Titus Vlavius Vespasianus was Emperor when the first wooden fort was built.
During the time of Emperor Domitian the fort was rebuilt in stone.
Emperor Trajan elevated Lopodunum to a town and is considered the founder.
Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Roman poet from Burdigala (Bordaux, France) in the 4th century. In his poem Mosella Lopodunum was mentioned for the first time in a literary text.
Emperor Hadrian ordered the limes in this region built, to safeguard the Roman settlements.
There were to men called Januarius documented in Ladenburg, a decurio (soldier) and a magister pagi (a town official).
Mithras was a Persian, later Roman sun god. A stone relief depicting him was found in Ladenburg.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More photos of streets, alleys, paths, avenues, and street signs can be found here.
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Books and Paper. More photos of these can be found here.
Who??! — Better known as Carl Benz, the inventor of the first viable automobile. This portrait of his is in Ladenburg, close to Mannheim, Germany, where he made his invention and located to – privately as well as his factory – in 1904.
This is for One Word Sunday. More who? photos 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 loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it. It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.
And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower, I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).
This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim. It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.
And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
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