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Tag: Wiesloch
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Weekly Prompt Colour Challenge: Silver
Three Sculpted Trios
Three Bacchus children and a billy goat. Thursday Trios
The Local Museum in Wiesloch
The town museum of Wiesloch is built next to the medieval defence tower. The windows are either barred or have striped shutters. In front is the old water well. The tower is called Dörndl (I couldn’t find an explanation, it just seems to be a … Continue reading The Local Museum in Wiesloch
From the Back
This is the back of an old house, looking on the little river Leimbach in Wiesloch. Monday Window
Windows from Wiesloch
I was walking around the town centre of Wiesloch, a town just south of Heidelberg and here are some attractive houses with windows from there. And here is something kind of special: A photo (with windows) of the word’s first petrol station: Yes, that’s right. … Continue reading Windows from Wiesloch
The Humble Leimbach
The Leimbach is a small river flowing through Wiesloch in the southwest of Germany. It takes an almost regal turn about 10km closer to the Rhine in Schwetzingen where it circles the baroque Schwetzingen Palace but in Wiesloch it is just a humble stream passing … Continue reading The Humble Leimbach
The Embodiment of a Reader
Isn’t it? A colourfully dressed girl balancing on a stack of books, empowered by her reading material she takes a flight of fancy. The artist, Hans Scheib, called his work “Die Literaturnerin”, a portmanteau word, a blend of “Literatur” (literature) and “Turnerin” (gymnast). FOWC with … Continue reading The Embodiment of a Reader
A Hospital Complex
or a complex hosptial? I found the buildings of this sprawling hospital complex, imbedded in a park bordering on a wooded area quite charming. It is a psychiatric hospital and I took the photos in the evening when hardly anybody was about, all sitting down … Continue reading A Hospital Complex
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