This is the Hexenturm, the witches’ tower, in our town. Today it’s surrounded by residential buildings. People assume it was a prison for witches, possibly before they were burned at the stake.
The facts: This was never a prison. It was part of the town wall. We do have another tower which actually was used as a prison but there are no records of any witches ever burned or even imprisoned in our town. It is just a name and nobody really knows where it came from.
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Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was a Swiss educational reformer. His name is well known in Switzerland and Germany and other countries – not least because most towns have a Pestalozzi Street and many have a Pestalozzi school. Without a doubt he had a great direct influence … Continue reading A Formative Experience
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This eagle sitting on a sphere (not a world sphere just a ball) is watching over a war memorial for the fallen of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71. He doesn’t look happy maybe because he was a visionary seeing more wars to come.
Monday Portrait
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No, the proper name of the location is not that but it’s a literal translation. I was getting my daily walk yesterday afternoon in by driving into the hills and just before the sun went down I was rewarded with that view.
A country road in southwestern Germany, a waterway (Canal La Basse) in France. Geometric Square #11
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