october: speyer pt. 2: the city.

after showing you the cathedral of speyer, now is the time for the city itself.

siegfried kills the dragon. it's part of the st.georg fountain.

doves love the fountain as well.

a unicorn on a roof. i love extraordinary apexes like this. the building houses a pharmacy that's called after the unicorn apex and it's also one of the oldest pharmacies of germany.

the altpörtel ( old gate ). it's one of the very few remains of the old town wall, and the most impressive one.

next to the gate was this beautiful florist. i loved the sign. the people who own the shop are called nothhelfer which basically means helper in need, which just perfectly fits the idea of being a helper to all kinds of floral problems, don't you think?

the postgalerie ( formerly the post directorate of speyer ) on the left, the beautiful building am altpörtel in the middle and the altpörtel on the right. it's such a great ensemble with three different architectural styles.

church st. joseph. speyer has many churches.

inside the church.

the interior was kind of really elegant.

and the light was amazing.

we stepped into another church that was really close near st. joseph's: the memorial church of protestation. i don't have a picture from the outside, because when i wanted to shoot it, i dropped my camera and the agitation of this happening made me forget to take a picture. since then my display is broken, but fortunately i still can take pictures.

the church was really, really impressing. it was a dark one, but this darkness made the window art stand out even more.

st. joseph's from afar. this was a test shot, to see if my camera was working after the hard fall.

and one more test shot at a cafe we chose to enjoy some coffee and cake. this building is another church in speyer: st. ludwig's.

after our visit at the cafe we roamed through the hasenpfuhl, an old part of the inner city.

i love old cities, they're always so peaceful. the speyerbach.

fat cat of the day.

we then proceeded to the river rhine, which is really narrow here, compared to where i come from in wiesbaden. which is of course logical, because speyer is situated in the upper rhine plain. it was really interesting to see the ships and boats maneuver around each other.

the beautiful weather contributed to a nice atmosphere.

cathedral towers in the distance. we slowly walked back into the city again.

fährmann, hol' über. this sculpture was created by georg günther zeuner and it shows the ghosts of the 8 german emperors who are buried inside the cathedral. they left their last resting-place to call the ferryman on the other side of the rhine,

i adore this sculpture pretty much,

here we have a great part of a playground created by fred feuerstein. the spider is really popular with the kids and i really liked it, too ;)

view onto the historical museum of the palatinate.

the museum upfront. maybe i'm revisiting speyer just because of the exhibition alone: detectives, agents & spies.

speyer also has a huge technic museum, which exhibits planes, submarines and trains and all kinds of apparatuses. here you can see a lufthansa plane, which is basically the signboard of the museum.

saying good-bye to the cathedral.

and there was our sign for a farewell, air balloon!

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

may '20: seeking modernism.

super pink rhododendron buds emerging! i start off this post with some flower images to appreciate and praise the time of spring, especially the month of may, which is the most abundant spring month to me personally. all the blossoms, all the fresh greens amass during may, and my heart and mind are hardly ever able to not frolick & gush about it all! for this post i am returning to one walk i did with the sole purpose to find a special mid-century villa in königstein ( which would ultimately prove to be a failure - i did find it, but i couldn't approach it properly to have a good look at it and only ever saw a tiny bit of the garden/forest side ). the whole walk was not a letdown, though, as i did find some other mid-century & brutalism gems and thoroughly enjoyed walking through the old spa town in the taunus mountains. rhododendron shrubs yield all kinds of different blossoms in myriad colours, they are easy to breed, therefore a wide variety can be found all over the wor...

november: thuringian forest.

the day we visited the thuringian forest near luisenthal we would also receive the death notice of my cousin. while the day in luisenthal was pretty magic - i even found a goat skull to take home for my not so fast growing skull collection - the time we got home and received the phone call of my grandmother, everything went dull. we always had hoped for him to recover - over the course of his sickness there were multiple times we'd thought he was on his way up, but that also counted for the times it was clear that the cancer was severe and probably not defeatable. in the end he fought four years, but he couldn't conquer. his constant optimism & general good will wasn't enough as his body decided to give up on him. i'm still thinking a lot about him, he was such a good natured guy, always seeing the good in everything and everyone. it's so strange to know that he's never going to be on any future family party gathering again. we discussed so many things whe...

ghost of nature.

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