Covered bridges are not common in Germany. This one is in Ketsch, it crosses to an island formed by the river canalisation in the 19th century, a nature reserve. It was built in the 1990s.
And I think there was some hand touching in the picture.
Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pick a topic from this photo
From Koblenz there is a cable car across the Rhine leading up to the fortress Ehrenbreitstein. For an even better view a huge viewing platform has been constructed up on the hill plateau.
And contrasting this rather large construction, here is a little detail on how to beautify rails – also close to the Rhine but in Düsseldorf.
Linked to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Rails.
What else comes to mind when one is thinking saphire but water? All the photos in this collage come from a walk along the banks of the river Rhine near Mannheim in summer last year.
A colour collage for Värikollaasit with the theme of the jewel which is called saphire in English, and safiiri in Finnish, and Saphir in German.
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I was in Koblenz yesterday and in the cable car up to the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress. In the cabin one has a commanding view of the Deutsches Eck, the German corner, where the river Moselle joins the Rhine. The corner tip was called Deutsches Eck for a long time but was enlarged and a monumental statue of Emperor Wilhelm I on horseback was erected. The statue was destroyed during World War II and until German reunification only the plinth remained – meant to be a reminder of the German separation. A replica of the monument was erected amidst much public discussion in the 1990s.
Public discussion was again fierce when the cable car from the banks of the Rhine up to the fortress was built in 2011. The area where the Moselle flows into the Rhine is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and people were worried that the view was going to be spoilt but personally I think it does not distract from the beauty of the area.
This is linked to One Word Sunday: Aerial.
Colour peeling off an old sign in the Rhine harbour of Gernsheim.
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After the summer break, another: Pick a word from Thursday’s Special.
The fortress in Bitche, France. Fortified against the German/Prussian threat to the East.
The statue of Germania looking to French threat to the West.
Personally, I find him much more chic than any political manifest in stone.
The Alps are also “set in stone” – in this case, the famous Eiger and Jungfrau in the Berner Oberland in Switzerland.
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The Rhine burst its banks in Düsseldorf, way back in 2016.
For more photos illustrating the five words, click here.
No, I don’t mean the traces of the River Rhine in the distance, nor the town of Rüdesheim on its banks, nor the strange totem poles, nor even the old monastery in front of which this guy was kneeling. It’s his back – with the locations of all the German national HHH meetings since 1989 on his shirt. Good times!
This is posted as part of the Thursday Special Traces of the Past, by Lost in Translation.
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