The ancient city hall of Michelstadt im Odenwald is a historic landmark. The whole building is beautiful with wonderful windows.
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Tag: Michelstadt
I’m a fan of frames
I happened to be in Michelstadt im Odenwald a couple of days ago and came across this frame with the thieves tower behind it. It made me think of other frame installations I’ve seen in the past.
Ladenburg has frames like this along the walk through town to show what the area used to look before the walk was constructed.
This frame is from Leazes’ Park in Newcastle, behind St James’ Park of football fame.
Only a few kilometres to the east in Sunderland is this big shutter framing Roker lighthouse.
And the ultimate frame high in the Alps opposite this view:
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps.
Fan of … #95 where you can find more fanatical photos.
4th dimension
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustave Flaubert
The quote by Flaubert is not only applicable to space but also to time. This basilica dates back to the 9th century, one of the few remnants of Carolingian architecture north of the Alps.
Linked to Travel with Intent. For more photos inspired by Flaubert’s quote, click here.
Twin windows
All these twin windows are from Steinbach, a small village which is part of the small town of Michelstadt im Odenwald. One can see that many of the older houses have shingles on the face of the buildings which is typical for the area.
And last not least the windows in the 1200-year-old basilica in the village, designed by Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne. They are reinforced today and would not have had those bars in Einhard’s time.
Linked to Monday Window where more windows can be found.
From the shadows of time
German doesn’t recogonise a difference between shadow and shade, it’s both Schatten to Germans.
I happen to come across this lovely spot today. To sit in the shade of two majestic linden trees
and look onto the 1200-year-old Einhard basilica, one of very few buildings dating back to the Carolingan area north of the Alps,
and then to go inside and marvel at the shadows which were the same ones looked on by the visitors of the basilica when it was newly built.
Linked to Friendly Friday: Shadows.
Divided and misaligned
Verspannte Teilung
Verspannte Teilung
Verspannte Teilung, a bronze sculpture in Michelstadt im Odenwald. It’s open to interpretation. If you put a sphere in a vice and misalign the pieces, you end up with a distorted globe.
For One Word Sunday: Division.
Paint creative
Two windows from a half-timbered house in Michelstadt im Odenwald. These days, this style of architecture is often redone in colour rather than in the customary black/brown and white but I haven’t seen one in terracotta hues before. Here is the whole house (as often is the case, difficult to photograph because they stand in narrow streets):
Linked to One Word Sunday: window.
When life was different
I took new photos of something old. Michelstadt is a quaint little town in the Odenwald, the lower mountain range to the east of the Upper Rhine Valley. The old houses, particularly the half timbered ones, are so well suited to monochrome photography because of their contrasting structures. These photos are of the town wall encircling the inner part of the town. I chose a filter, inexplicably called “bandicoot” in my editing program, which is not as stark as black and white, yet not as mellow as sepia.
This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything new.
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