from time to time i set out to rediscover the town i am living in - wiesbaden. and it's sometimes a very strange thing as i am still finding places that i haven't been to yet and still discover details in this city that i haven't found before. wiesbaden is not huge, it only has around 275.000 inhabitants and the it's rather rural, actually, with many districts being in the countryside. still, it is huge enough for me, and i wouldn't want to live in a bigger city. i like it when a city is walkable and overseeable, big cities like frankfurt, berlin or cologne are nice to visit once in a while, but they are crushing me if i stay there longer than necessary. wiesbaden is the perfect inbetween actually, it's not too small but also not too big and it's in a region that is full of beautiful nature areas, which is what i actually adore the most. if i had to live in a less green city, it'd be a huge turmoil to my well-being. alas, i still hope to someday move out of the city and back out to the country-side, as i have discovered i am the happiest in remote places with direct access to nature, without having to take the car everytime to set out. ( don't get me wrong, i LOVE driving. i sometimes feel very guilty, though, because it makes me a gas guzzler pretty much '_'. i still hope that some guy or chick outside finally invents an eco-friendly car that i don't have to pay thousands of euros for, but that doesn't seem to be on anyone's radar as of yet - and you know, it should by now! ) anyway, ranting aside, here are some pictures i took on a little walk through wiesbaden.
art deco entry! wiesbaden is full of art deco and art nouveau architecture ( that's because most of the city has been build around the turn of the 19th century into the 20th - as it boomed because the high society discovered the spa qualities of wiesbaden. ) it's really perfect for me, because i love that era too much and want to basically go back in time to live there - minus the society standards of the olde times, though )
i passed by a former labour men district - that's what the statue indicates! and indeed you can always recognize those neighborhoods instantly, because they were build in a uniform fashion.
i also peeked into beautiful spring gardens!
fluffly catkins!
i love how some trees look snow-covered with their white blooming petals.
a little rain front was coming towards us, so i decided to walk back into the city. this is on the outskirts of the northwest of wiesbaden. you can see the foothills of the taunus mountain range.
domus dei est et porta coeli - god's house and the gate to heaven. the minimal portal of st elisabeth.
i suspect this woman might be st elisabeth ;)
old window display of a coiffeur. i especially love the term 'new age perms' :)
on a different day i made my way out to eltville again, as i discovered that the city of eltville owns an urban forest. i thought that there might be new hiking routes to explore so off i went. it was a good decision, as i've been to that place twice now and plan to return again, because it's seriously a beautiful area, with fish ponds, narrow woods, wells and a bavarian restaurant to come back to, to fill your hungry belly.
i went there on a rainy day and the moss everywhere was growing in such lush colours!
little bridge over a tiny creek.
mossy benches.
hubertus well.
this looks like a fairy place. don't you think?
this well is called 'salzquelle' ( salt well ) and i took a sip and it surely tasted salty! i especially liked the green algaes on the well pond, it made it look like a magic green brew.
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