my poladroid week 5th january - 11th january 2009.

MONDAY

monday was pretty icy and stuff, i found it beautiful. i posted this before but as a different version. i like this one better.

TUESDAY

shadow creeps in occasionally, but most of the time when no one's at home except me. because i have a weak heart and i love her to roam around the house.

WEDNESDAY

here she is sleeping on the couch in the computerroom. lovely.

THURSDAY

still icy garden. but the snow is falling sometimes as well.

FRIDAY

my mom and me play this quiz game a lot these days. i love quizzes! sometimes it helps when i think i'm not very smart. they show me that i'm not too stupid ☹

on saturday i worked the whole day and didn't have time to shoot any pictures. additionally i just wanted to relax when i was coming home.

SUNDAY

we made a winter walk yesterday near castle ettersburg. there were a lot of people and skiing and sledding kids, so we made a huge round around them. i don't like that much people around me. makes me sad sometimes, but i think i'm not able to overcome that any time soon. the only occasions i'm bearing masses of people is when going to concerts, it's just different then.

the castle has been renovated last year, it's quite beautiful now. sometimes i think though, that it would've been great to have a closer look at the ruins, but time's went by.

some history:
o it has been built by johann mützel in 1706 - 1711
o anna amalia of brunswick-wolfenbüttel lived there from 1776 - 1780
o because of her patronity goethe, schiller, herder and a lot of other well known personalities at that time were having meetings in summer times there.
o in the 19th century other famous persons have visited the palais : hans christian andersen, franz liszt and many more.
o there was a school located there in the 20th century (wernher von braun was one of many teachers ), it was closed after the world war II ended 1945. there was a huge lane to KZ BUCHENWALD as well, they opened it again in 1999.
o in 2007/2008 the castle has been renovated after it slowly went to rack and ruins.

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ghost of nature.

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