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.
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.
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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.
The title is taken from the lyrics of the song “Lemon tree” by Fools Garden.
A road in the Rhein Plain in early spring with the hills of the Odenwald in the back – a view to end all feeling of homesickness – at least for me.
Eine Straße in der Rheinebene im Frühling mit den Bergen des Odenwalds im Hintergrund – zumindest für mich ein Anblick, der jedes Heimweh verscheucht.
There is a German song*, and it goes:
Ich hab den Vater Rhein in seinem Bett geseh’n
ja der hat’s wunderschön,
der braucht nie aufzusteh’n.
Und rechts und links vom Bett
da steht der beste Wein –
ach wäre ich doch nur der alte Vater Rhein!
I’ve seen old Father Rhine lying in his bed, he has a wonderful lot in life as he never needs to get up.
And to the right and to left of his bed he has the best wine – oh, I wish I was the old Father Rhine!
It’s the best bed I could think of!
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