Date(s): Oct, 2006. Photos by aymar55@yahoo.com. 1 - 94 of 94 Total. 4775 Visits.
1 Esslingen-Mettingen the medieval outskirts
2 Esslingen-Mettingen culture shock
3 Esslingen-Mettingen upward slash
4 Esslingen-Mettingen Upward slash. - The chevroned vineyards a hold out from the past. The hillside look from before the day and age of consolidation. No oversight, some hillsides are simply too steep to make the effort worthwhile. Fully mechanized viticulture defied by nature.
[Fringe benefit of small land lots, no shortage of public accommodation roads. Holds for the whole area.]
5 Erigeron annuus tow path lane. Fleabane (daisy pyramid)
6 Erigeron-annuus
7 Pliensauturm
8 Pliensauturm The CE in the coat of arms stands for "Civitas Esslingensis". The per pale partition may represent the garb of the local militia (the guilds in arms). Their very sight will have scared the socks off the encroaching Duke Ulrich. The playing cards are upon us. Actually mainly a blockade policy. - The angels have the clean shaven look of shield bearers.
9 Pliensaubrücke homesteading
10 Hammerkanal
11 Hammerkanal half timbered bridge with pigeons
12 Hammerkanal weir and gear works
13 Hammerkanal Do I detect a highly sophisticated cut off switch.
14 Greek Orthodox Church
15 Greek Orthodox Church
16 Greek Orthodox Church Foundation plaque. Pertinent do it yourself vocabulary: theme, lithography, hierodule, naology, eulogy, glottal, theocracy. - There is nothing in the world you cannot say with a few well chosen words of common Greek. Just wait for an unwary cab driver.
17 Greek Orthodox Church Depicted events will not necessarily date back to Byron time. The period costumes look however strange. The Ninja turtle look (cotton codpieces) is involuntary. Not sure about the proportions. The central figure somewhat bandy-legged. (Phidias: Will not pass muster.)
18 Greek Orthodox Church Best guess, underground parking or bathroom access. Some surface structure is neutral.
19 TurkSat-vs-Astra telltale azimuth bearing
20 St-Dionys The board of tourism has engaged some performing arts students to deliver Doomsday speeches. Mendicant order garb and emaciated Fra Savanerola look a must. Not sure what would happen if anybody would take them seriously. Orwell radio adaption, part II.
21 St-Dionys
22 St-Dionys well connected (pink telephone boothes and church towers)
23 Agnesbrücke gerania bridge hill summit: Dicker Turm
24 Agnesbrücke building with arched corner-pass hill summit: Hochtwacht
25 Agnesbrücke fake old: Hochwacht
26 Marktplatz, Münster-St-Paul
27 Marktplatz, Münster-St-Paul
28 Esslingen curtailed crane against a backdrop of vineyards
29 vineyard promenade Early 19th century view. The 'rectification' has just started. Not sure if the term is a permissible synonym for industrialization. The rows of highway shading Lombardy poplars an unmistakable sign that Napoleonic troops did pass. Corsica man's footstep in kitchen Algonkin. The second sign were numbered houses. No kickbacks from Thurn&Taxis (mail services). Simply did facilitate billeting.
30 Esslingen Markplatz view, early 60ties left: Münster St-Paul - center: Toerle (small) - right: Frauenkirche foreground: lots of parasols Municipal Museum Esslingen >MME
31 Frauenkirche at the eve of the Industrial Revolution > MME
32 Frauenkirche present day. Viewpoint is rotated.
33 Frauenkirche, Fundelbrunnen + Heraldic Lion
34 Frauenkirche the filigran spire
35 Heraldic lion the lion is new, the concept old
36 Marktplatz Kielmeyer House
37 Marktplatz Kielmeyer House. Inscription: Soap boiler and general drugstore. (Everything but fire crackers.) Originally a press house. (Gradient of the gable somewhat atypical for a press house. Torque devices need surface area not hight.)
38 Neues Rathaus 'School house' turret dates from 1842. The rest of the 'New' City Hall is about 100 year older.
40 Altes Rathaus Looks nearly as imposing as the stern of galleon. The omission of town clocks on the latter probably just a historic accident. If a town mayor can share his office with life sized clock gear so should an officer of the fleet like Sidonia.
The clock dates back to 1592. The clockmaker was Jakob Diem. (Probably better not to check the clockwork too closely. Sundry wear and tear replacements.)
41 Altes Rathaus
42 Rathausplatz houses with projecting floors (timber corbelled)
43 Rathausplatz take away the infills and you will have an upright (sort of) pigeonholed letter case for oversized mail.
44 Rathausplatz decorated gable
45 Rathausplatz
46 Altes-Rathaus rear view (actually South side)
47 Altes-Rathaus rear view
48 Altes-Rathaus Carillon (Glockenspiel)
49 Altes-Rathaus Carillon (a chime will be promoted to a carillon if it has more than 23 bells. Two octave range criteria.)
50 Mittlere-Beutau corner tavern
51 Mittlere-Beutau corner tavern
52 Burgsteige
53 Burgsteige
54 Burgsteige heraldic angel
55 Burgsteige The sundial inscription deals with the imprinting of specific units of time into primordial clay. (You will need a special cylinder seal to do that.) [Could probably have lived without the free pincushion distortion test.]
56 hill rampart Hochwacht Some politicians come here for a training session before they visit China.
57 hill rampart Dicker Turm [overlay foreground]
58 hill ramparts A slight bent in the rampart predestines this location for either a downward or upward shot (Frauenkirche or Dicker Turm respectively).
59 hill rampart Altes Rathaus
60 hill rampart Altes Rathaus
61 Zehentgasse pedestrian zone with Lantana camera
62 Heugasse-or-vicinity The Eagle has landed. (Age old story: Prophetic visitors will always reserve the very best in parking spaces for themselves. At least this one had the courtesy of turning off the afterburner jets.)
63 downtown somewhere ordinary window with telly glare
70 Acer saccharinum Dürer, the very backdrop for my rhino sketch I was looking for
71 Acer saccharinum
72 Acer saccharinum
73 Acer saccharinum
74 Acer saccharinum
75 Esslingen quiet corner
76 Esslingen quiet corner
77 Wolfstor
78 Wolfstor Long haul trade from the East, Ulm and Outer Mongolia, did enter the city through this gate.
79 Wolfstor Eagle flanked by lions. The whole menagerie became very much a Roland symbol after the extinction of the Staufic line. Loyal subjects of a non existing dynasty. Concept has its merits.
80 Wolfstor It is unlikely that all the gable slide ins were occupied at the same time. Always barring a forgotten period of Pagoda building.
81 Esslingen playing hide and seek.
82 Augustiner-Str, nightfall Stationary rooftop howdahs in the out of favor diction of Jules Verne. Overgrown with Russian ivy.
83 Schelztor Boxing Day
84 Schelztor Boxing Day
85 Schelztor on a high pedestal
86 Schelztor on a high pedestal
87 MME, assayer-set Box size carries slight olfactory overtones. Regrettably a glass case exhibit. Impossible to check if Havanas were ever berthed in it. - Balance itself and two weights are missing. Inset contours suggest Holbein scales. Devotional commonplaces apparently more important than an absolute date. Best guess, telltale clues, late 18th century. It is unclear if the different weight and gold units, various exotic names, had whole number ratios. Troy ounce standard?
88 MME birthing-chair Whatever makes you split with laughter. Overall verdict: Probably not too bad as a first approximation for an adjustable easy chair.
89 MME fish and chips shop Two embracing mermaids. Museum tag says that it was once part of a tiled stove. Rather mysterious. Received wisdom, salamanders do mix with fire, mermaids don't. It might also be regarded as a benevolent household spirit. In any case quite lovely. A color stripped version of the same motive > (Schloss Wäscherburg)
90 MME safety-bicycle Safety bicycle (late 19th century assessment, safer than a penny farthing). The brake train needs fixing (a piece of shoe string will do). Slightly more serious shortcoming: looks can be deceiving but the front wheel peddle will hardly have an idle gear. Some later models did have special footrests for downhill rides.
91 MME all wooden shoulder-flask all wooden shoulder flask. Any kind of brandy will do. On town museums in general: Always nice if you can blame a third party for the heteroclite content of your sets.
92 MME stake-iron Genuine coconut tree climbing irons from the South Sea. Either that or just an aid for driving stakes into the ground. The straws will have served as 'cable binders'.
