This sculpture stands in front of the train station of Hemsbach, a small town in the north of Baden-Württemberg.
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Tag: sculpture
Aren’t You Glad You Have a Machine?
This sculpture has been erected in honour of Karin I, the Fountain Queen of 1981, in Oberursel (and don’t ask me anything else about the privileges and duties of a fountain queen). It is called the Wäschfraa-Brunnen or washerwoman fountain.
The square is called “An der Bleiche” and there are many squares and streets named in the area or even in Germany with this or a similar name. It translates as bleach and it was the place where clothes could be dried and bleached in the sun. It was located near running water where the women did their washing.
These People Know How to Celebrate
These people are sitting at the Worschmarktbrunne in Bad Dürkheim where the largest winefest in the world takes place every year for two weeks. They have rolls, sausage and wine. And a lot of joie de vivre!
And You Know It’s For Real
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Tuning in on your saxophone.
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Credit to Kate Bush for the header and first line.
Hard Work
This is one of the four statues on the Pont JF Kennedy in Strasbourg, one of the bridges to cross the Ill. The statues all depict workers who do hard manual labour – this is the pelleteur. His job was to clear the waterways from the silt so it would stay navigable for bigger boats. The profession died out in the 1920s.
The bridge was built in 1906 and was then called Schwarzwaldbrücke (pont de la Forêt-Noir / Black Forest Bridge). It has undergone a few name changes, some only because of the change of languages, from German to French and back). It became Pont John F Kennedy in 1965. The locals, however, favour the name Viermännerbruck (bridge of four men, in the local Alsation dialect).
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