Tag: Lorsch

Before the irrefutable evidence

that smoking isn’t really conducive to your health, gentlemen smoked pipes. And very elaborate pipes indeed.

Last week we were at the UNESCO heritage site of the Abbey of Lorsch. There is a small museum close by and we had a look. A small section is concerned with the abbey, the rest of the building houses Germany’s largest tobacco museum. The combination may be unusual but not the location: Lorsch has been a tobacco growing town for three centuries.

Monday Portrait

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Unnatural? No, It’s Called Architecture!

The central building of the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. The Kö-Bogen in Düsseldorf. The façade of the entrance hall of the Lorsch Abbey. I’ve put different texture filters over each one of the pictures. The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Unnatural Patterns

Three Architectural Threes

The three arches of the Carolingian gatehouse of the Imperial Abbey Lorsch from the 8th century.

The three arches of the Munich main fire station (Hauptfeuerwache) from the beginning of the 20th century.

A mixed commercial and residential building with three sets of bay windows in Heinsberg.

Thursday Trios