Tag: toilets

Liquid Treatment Plants

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I had planned something else for Water, Water Everywhere this week but I could not resist to share this picture from the weekend. There are usually fees for the use of public toilets in Germany; they are in turn mostly clean. At the Bad Dürkheim Wurstmarkt, billed as the largest wine festival in the world, the toilets are not only spotless, they are also customer friendly: offering a flat rate for their use. Remember: they sell wine or spritzer or any other liquid in half-liter or liter servings. Still – that’s a lot of liquid removal for 5€.

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I’m a Fan of Ancient Toilets

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Inspired by Geriatrix’ toilet signs last week I consulted my archive and came up with these:

Haselburg
Windeck
Tiefburg
Oppède-le-vieux

Arranged according to age: 

A Roman toilet from around the 2nd century in a villa rustica near Höchst im Odenwald.  
The Windeck toilet with a long drop built around 1100 AD in Weinheim.  
The Tiefburg in Handschuhsheim is about 200 younger but features the same kind of jutty toilet. 
And the simple hole in a stone toilet in Oppède-le-vieux, also from the middle ages.

I’m a Fan of … #212

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