Tag: Neustadt a.d.W.

Come blow your horn

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No, I’m not Frank Sinatra but feel free to take your pick. The choice of horns is yours:

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The sign of the hotel “Adler-Post” in Schwetzingen.

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Less ornate but rich in contrast, the restaurant “Post” in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.

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A mural in Bensheim – night watchmen carried a lamp, a hellbarde, and a horn.

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Passing on the knowledge to the next generation.

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A magnificent set of horns on this he-goat.

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And a more whimsical set of horns on this cow,

A horned theme for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge.  More horny photos can be found here.

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Round and round it goes

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Nancy Meryll was asking for a series of photos from above and from below of the same thing for A Photo a Week.  These photos were taken in Neustadt an der Weinstraße at the festival of the wine harvest.  From the top of the ferris wheel one has a great view of the festival, the town, and the whole area.  And from below it’s a structure of metal beams.

Check out other bloggers’ contribution to this challenge here.

 

Elwetritsche

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This fun fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany sports a large variety of Elwetritsche – mythical creatures, supposedly bred from ducks, geese, chicken and woodland imps and gnomes.  The artist responsible is Gernot Rumpf.  More about Elwetritsche can be found on wikipedia.  I’ve posted pictures of their young ones before.

Cee’s Black &  White Photo Challenge is asking for fountains this week. For more wet photos click on the badge:

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Chickens aren’t the only ones

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The hatchling peeping out of an egg is an Elwetritsch, a mythical creature from the Southwest of Germany. This particular one is part of a fountain in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.  If you want to read up on Elwetritsche (apparently they’ve made their way to the New World where they are known amongst the Pennsylvania Dutch as Elbedritsch) you can look them up on Wikipedia.

This is in response to The Daily Post prompt “Egg” – more eggy posts can be found here.

 

Classy or glassy?

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Last weekend I was in Neustadt an der Weinstraße and I was literally running through the town (a kind of hares and hound game) with my camera around my neck and I snapped a few pictures whenever we had a short break to catch our breaths.  For all that haste I like the result of the shot above.

This one resulted in an unintentional selfie – although I didn’t try to photograph behind the glass but was interested in the name.

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This last one was taken at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland, UK.  In addition to dealing with photographing through glass there is the problem of lighting in museums to struggle with.

More photographs with subjects under glass here.