A Photo a Week: Faded.
Tag: Turm
A devil’s point-of-view
Yesterday I was looking up, today I am looking down.
Our group was on a hike and we had a break at the Teufelsfels (devil’s peak) which is crowned by a tower called Langer Heinrich (long Henry). The mayor who was influential in having the tower built in 1985 was called Heinrich Heimfahrt – I wonder why they didn’t use his last name for the tower, it means literally “the drive home”. Which is what we did soon after.
But not before changing the perspective completely and looking out over the Hunsrück, the low mountain range stretching towards Luxembourg.
My Square Perspective no. 4 is linked to The Life of B.
When life was different
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.
Towering memories
When I researched the name of this tower I found it aptly described as “Aussichtsmonstrum” = look-out monstrosity. There is, even with towers, no accounting for taste. It adds 21m to the Stäffelsberg (480m) to afford a view over the Pfälzer Wald in the southern part of Rhineland-Palatium, close to the French border.
This much older tower (by about 700 years) is arguably more beautiful. It stands in Weinheim, on the other side of the Rhine. It has dominated my childhood as my parents’ (and now my sister’s) garden lies directly behind it. Which is why I include this less popular view of the Blauer Hut (the Blue Hat, as it is known):
For One Word Sunday: Tower.
For more towering photos, click here.
A blue hat
… 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 It was originally made of blueish slate and the name of this remnant of the town wall is still today Blauer Hut, “blue hat”.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.
I’d rather be reading
I loved this sculpture in front of the public library in Ladenburg since I first saw it. It’s a reference to reading itself – whatever kind of books you like.
And while we are in Ladenburg (a small town in the southwest of Germany) have a look at this medieval tower, I could happily see it standing in Ankh-Morpork, maybe the tower of the Unseen University before the vice-chancellors got eccentric and went for the Babylonian style of architecture (I am referring to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, of course).
This tower stands about 10 kilometres to the northeast in Weinheim. It’s part of the local castle and since I was little I noticed its turrets and bay windows and dormer windows – and imagined myself a Disney princess when I was there.
And can’t you see the reference to Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea?
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