Tag: sandstone

Date me

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Builders often write the year the house was built, often together with their name or initials, somewhere over a door or a window.  This is just a small collection from close to where I live, all done in rose-tinted sandstone, which is often used in our area.

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1800: The entry to the house, next to the “Fuchs’sche Mühle” (Foxes Mill) in Weinheim
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1838: A door lintel in Schriesheim
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1902-3: a pediment in art nouveau style in Schwetzingen
Georg Stefani 1914
1914: A window lintel in Lützelsachsen

for Thursday’s Special: Traces of the Past

https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/thursdays-special-traces-of-the-past-y3-09/

Stoney faces

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The coarse stones and coarser roof tiles of the “Blaue Hut”, one of the three remaining towers of the medieval town wall of Weinheim.  The name comes from the slate tiles of the original roof.
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Smooth clinker around the modern, gothic inspired window of the church St. Marien in Mönchengladbach-Rheydt.
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Course sandstone bricks forming the base of a half-timbered house in the Odenwald.
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The structured front of the Königshalle of the Lorsch Abbey built in the ninth century is the oldest monument of Carolingian architecture.  It is a UNESCO world heritage site.

for The Daily Post Photo Challenge: Textures.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/textures/