Tag: Toiletten

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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2000 years of outhouses

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Haselburg

This is the remains of a toilet facility built by Romans in a villa rustica in the Odenwald in German.  When it was built it was most probably not an outhouse as such but now it is as open as anything.

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This is from more than a millenium later, in the ruin of a castle in Handschuhsheim near Heidelberg.  Since it has no direct water access (unlike the Roman facilities) it was a lot less hygienic.

Tiefburg

This now is from the 21st century: plastic and with a slightly humourous sign.

Dixi

Finally, for my private satisfaction.  The poster of a local wannabe politician with a sign that shows where I think he belongs.

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Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: bathrooms, outhouses and port-a-potties.

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