Tag: Odenwald

Looking back and Looking ahead

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A curious look – but what’s the connection to my past and my future?

This valley in the Odenwald has been a favourite spot for family outings for almost 150 years. The deer come to the fences to be fed, then and now.

The young deer at the top might very well be the grandgrandgrandgrand… son of the deer my granddad was feeding in the photo on the left, taken in around 1962. The photo on the right is of our son and grandson standing in more or less the same location earlier this year. I haven’t been to that place in the intervening 60 years.

Friendly Friday: Look back to the future

It’s also a small world

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This is my second installment for

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: It’s a Small World – I found this really small world on a my bike ride today. It seems to be part of a “planet ramble” (Planetenweg) with various planets displayed like this (Planetenweg). This is a representation of Neptune. A small, small world – only 57 times the size of our earth.

Six Dragon Flies

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Yes, there are actually six of them in this picture. Looks a bit messy, I know, so I am going to balance that with a very clear, down-to-earth shot:

The valley to the east from here is known as the six mill valley because there are six mills (suprise!). They are not in operation anymore and function as small museums, an upscale restaurant or have been transformed into places of residence. There are a lot more mills further along the small river called Weschnitz, to be sure, but these are the ones within the scope of a comfortable Sunday stroll.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Six

Einhard’s Basilica in Steinbach

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There are not many buildings left from the Carolingian area in Germany. The most famous is the Lorsch Abbey near Worms in the Rhine Valley, a UNESCO world heritage site. The basilica of Einhard, about 40km to the east, is less well-known. This is a model on the site.

Einhard, who was amongst many other functions at the court the biographer of Charlemagne, had the basilica built in the early part of the 9th century and endowed it with relics, probably in order to make it into a centre of pilgrimage. His plans did not come to fruition and the relics were removed to Seligenstadt in the North. Other clerical buildings of the time were renovated and modernised throughout the century whereas this basilica was left mostly in its original state.

Imagine approaching this building at a time when most buildings were hardly higher than a man!

More information on the Einhard’s basilica can be found on this blog, called English Speaking Odenwald written by an American expat living in the area.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Buildings of the Past