In Freudenstadt I saw this … let’s call it pseudo bay window, or possibly fake. I guess on the inside it has a bigger window sill and that’s it. On the outside it accentuates the shingled housefront. I rummaged through my archive and I found … Continue reading Fake or Fancy?
German car number plates consist of one, two, or three letters denoting the region, random one or more often two letters and up to four digits. You had to take the middle letters that luck (and the district office) gave you, nowadays you can pay … Continue reading A Tale Full of Woe
They are waiting for the carnival corso. They look really excited and happy, don’t they?
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Monday Portrait is not hosted by anyone – everybody can post a portrait on Monday.
I’m changing the name today to Monday Portraits, for obvious reasons.
The town on the left side of the river Rhine is called Worms which should explain the title. It used to be just one bridge (the right one) but traffic between the state of Hesse and the Palatium had become so much that they added the left one a few years ago and made each a one way bridge. I’ve just read that the older bridge dating back to 1953 has to be replaced in the next few years as renovation is not possible. However, only the part that actually crosses the water needs to be replaced, the new bridge will fit seamlessly with the old parts on either end. A perspective to look forward to.
My Square Perspective no. 21 is linked to The Life of B.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. This week I found some archways.
More streets, roads, paths, and avenues can be found here.
Many German towns have a Judengasse (Jewish street). In this wikipedia.de article it is explained how these came about, usually in the Middle Ages. The corresponding English wiki article is more about Jewish ghettos in Germany, and generally in Europe. In my hometown the street is in the middle of what used to be the quarter where tradesmen and farmers lived. The photos are from the town of Worms in the Upper Rhine valley. The street ends in a place in front of the old town wall which has been named after a Jewish teacher who became the head of the Jewish school in Worms when the German Nazis expelled Jewish students from “German” schools. She was murdered in a concentration camp. As is often the case in Germany when streets are named after a person a short explanation is attached to the street sign – which is a good way to learn about history in general, and people in particular.
More photos of paths, streets, alleys can be found at Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
If you know Wagner and his Ring cycle, you know about Siegfried and the dragon. The Nibelungen are said to have had their palace in Worms, in the Upper Rhine Plain. So no wonder that images of dragons can be found in the town.
For Monday Murals. More murals and graffiti can be found here.
Worms, a town on the Rhine between Mannheim and Mainz, can trace its origines back to the years B.C. and the citizens were challenged to incorporate old walls and buildings into the modern lay-out throughout the ages. The town walls we see today were built from the 12th century onwards on foundations dating back to walls of the Roman military garrissn that stood here in the first century A.D. The big gate to one of the bridges crossing the River Rhine is much newer, and the houses can be anything from a few decades to a few centuries old.
For Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge. More ways, paths, streets, etc. can be found here.
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