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|  Rotenberg
church in the mistletoe
|  Rotenberg
|  Rotenberg
|  Rotenberg
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|  Rotenberg
quaint corner house
|  Rotenberg, the crypt
Chateaubriand perspective
|  access way to the crypt
pine
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Crowfoot meadow
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Crowfoot meadow
|  the 12th century castle
The old castle before Salucci. The conspiciously cone shape hill top of the present day will also be somewhat terraformed.
|  the 12th century castle
Elaborate wooden eaves. Rare in the day and age of gargoyles. Unresolved, does the court yard come with a true well or is it just a cistern. Complicating factor, there is still a true well at the foot of the crypt hill (next to the bus stop). Schurwald fed I believe.
Lost poem: The Lookout in the Aviary.
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 dedication plaque
Dedication plaque of the original castle chapel from 1083. The bishop of Worms is mentioned.
|  Rotenberg, the crypt
Completed in 1824. A 12th century Staufic manor was totalled to make room for this Neo-Classical assertion. Recycling of original buckle stones can be excluded. Crypt is built in finest ashlar. Some of the rubble may have been given to the local vinters for retainment walls purposes.
Salucci, the architect in residence responsible for the update, died impoverished in Florence. No headstone in Hofen that is. Official reason for the royal displeasure: capillary action (saltpeter residue and/or fungal bloom) in the basement of Schloss Rosenstein. Unofficially: most likely repeated cost overruns. Other carrier highlight, combat engineer or something of that nature in the Grande Armee during the Russia campaign. Somewhat strange that he flunked dampproofing. You would expect some sense for practical measures with such a background.
|  Rotenberg, the crypt
|  Rotenberg, the crypt
The 'never dying love' quote above the entrance is straight from the Scriptures. Paul (like nearly all of the heady stuff), first epistle to the Corinthians 13,8. (It is actually 'charité-agape' rather than 'amour' in the French translation). The quote is also a staple of Great War memorials. Not sure if Pestalozzi would have approved.
Great War Memorial, Korb
|  Rotenberg , the crypt
Some similarity with Ravennna and the Panthenon cannot be denied.
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 Rotenberg, the crypt
The marriage that saved the kingdom. The son in law and of Alexander I had nothing to fear from the Congress in Vienna. All Napoleonic acquisitions (technical charm word 'mediatisation') were duly confirmed. The circumstance that the ruling monarch himself was married to a daughter of George III (Charlotte Augusta Matilda) did also help. (The heir apparent, the future Wilhelm I, married Paulowna, who was technically his cousin.) Twice hedged is better than once.
[The Carl Eugen dukedom had reinvented itself as a kingdom in the meantime, albeit a pocket one. All a question of switching your allegiance, pro-Austrian, pro-Napoleonic, pro-Kutusow, pro-Metternich, in the nick of time. General verdict: Close one. Saxony (Napoleon's last trans-Rhenian ally) did not fare so well. Contributing factor, no Talleyrand class diplomat at hand to patch things up. As for the Saxonian loyalty to a lost cause, the supposition of genuine Jacobitic sympathies is not required. Truth probabl...
|  Rotenberg, the lion braziers
The braziers will be a time honored stage prop. Even Cesar's funeral had some. Moot point: Were fires actually lighted during the main event. (The Stiftskirche in Stuttgart served as temporary morgue.) The lion motive is also prominent in Schloss Rosenstein, another Salucci building.
|  lion brazier
|  lion brazier
|  lion brazier
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 the front steps
oil habor, Untertürkheim
|  the front steps
Daimler Stadium, Cannstatt
|  younger visitors
|  younger visitiors
|  vineyard view
Uhlbach direction
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 Rotenberg, the crypt
The capitals of the exterior columns are Doric, those of the interior rotunda Corinthian.
|  equilateral triangle
The equilateral triangle will be a ablaze at winter solstice, or so I understand my heel stone magic.
|  reverse view
well aligned telecommunications tower
|  the copula
The tessellated dome. Some Capitol resemblance (suitably scaled down). You can hardly call it Colonial lag when everybody does it.
|  copula
the upward shot
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 Corinthian capitel
|  St-John by Dannecker
|  St-John
St John in Schiller pose. Possible Dannecker motto: Subject matter is no excuse for a deviation from the all embracing Platonic blueprint. (The more neutral Thorvaldsen ranks probably higher.) - The four evangelists are arranged crosswise, in conjugated pairs. The combination of different makers somewhat daring. Would not recommend that with that jet engines.
|  St-Luke by Thorvaldsen
|  St-Luke
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