but no panes of glass.
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Tag: Weinheim
The now in the past and the future
A vision of tomorrow, through the eyes of yesterday
A boy – the promise of the future – in a building which his great great grandfather helped to build in the past.
My grandfather was a young tradesman, a tinsmith, some 100 years ago when this castle was built and carried out some work on the construction. Now my grandson was playing amongst its walls and columns.
Linked to K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge: A vision of tomorrow, through the eyes of yesterday.
Getaways without getting away
Balconies in the centre of the town of Heidelberg.
And in Frankfurt – more green, less flowers.
The townhall balcony in Lampertheim – geraniums are the perennial favourites for balcony gardening.
This is more colourful, seen in Ladenburg.
More geraniums, in Weinheim.
No flowers at all, yet the feeling is definitely “holiday in Balconia”.
The old part of the town of Weinheim is built on an incline. The rooms behind the lower row of balconies are street level on the other side of the house. It looks even higher when shown with the more modern houses in front:
Linked with Friendly Friday: balconies.
Wie ein bunter Hund
When the far-right party AFD started to agitate people against refugees in the autumn of 2015, many people in our town started to stand up against them. They rallied behind the slogan Weinheim bleibt bunt – Weinheim will stay colourful, meaning that diversity was welcomed. Very soon a symbol was created – that of the colourful dog. The reference is to a German saying when somebody is known all over town that he stands out like a dog of many colours.
For A Photo a Week: colourful.
More colourful photos can be found here.
A displaced giant
Cedars were not really winter hardy in Germany (this might be changing, unfortunately for the overall climate), so large, old cedar trees are exceptional. The oldest and largest cedar in Germany is found in Weinheim, in the southwest. It was planted around 1720, has a width of 27 metres, a height of 23 metres and a trunk circumference of 5,20 metres. Over the years, it had a number of visits from tree doctors and so far, it is going strong even though it has suffered from the dry summer this year, as have other old trees in the area. For years, there was a toy rocket stuck in its upper branches, the loss of which pained me greatly.
Here it is on the left, with the tower of the castle (now the townhall) in the background:
For One Word Sunday: old. More old photos or photos of old things and possibly people can be found here.
House, home, abode, lodging, residence …
For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Places People Live. These are examples from all over Germany. For more places from all over, 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.
There’s colour at the end of the tunnel
Light is therefore colour, and shadow the privation of it
– JMW Turner, 1818
As anyone driving into a tunnel can attest to.
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