Tag: Stadtmauer

Medieval Remnants

In medieval times, the town of Weinheim was surrounded by a town wall with four towers. Three of these towers remain today.

Blauer Hut – Blue Hat
Hexenturm – Witches’ Tower
Roter Turm – Red Tower

Bonus Fact: No witches were ever held in the Witches’ Tower. It was never used as a prison.

For this post, I chose a different word of the five on offer.

Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word

Archy

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Half a circle peeping over a roof – the full circle sports a star. But it is not a car roof.

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A roof peeping through an arch or through a half circle.

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Through lots of arches in the castle gardens of Schloss Neckarhausen.

Linked to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Circles, Curves and Arches.

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When life was different

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I took new photos of something old.  Michelstadt is a quaint little town in the Odenwald, the lower mountain range to the east of the Upper Rhine Valley.  The old houses, particularly the half timbered ones, are so well suited to monochrome photography because of their contrasting structures.  These photos are of the town wall encircling the inner part of the town.  I chose a filter, inexplicably called “bandicoot” in my editing program, which is not as stark as black and white, yet not as mellow as sepia.

This is for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Anything new.

 

A blue hat

Blauer Hut

… this tower used to have.  It was originally made of blueish slate and the  name of this remnant of the town wall is still today Blauer Hut, “blue hat”.

More blue photos can be found on Debbie’s Travel with Intent site for the One Word Sunday photo challenge.