Date(s): 2006. Photos by aymar55@yahoo.com. 1 - 64 of 64 Total. 3829 Visits.
1 Uhlbach panorama view from Rotenberg Nestled in the flanks of the Schurwald. Herodotus assessment, choice location for an open air amphitheater.
2 Uhlbach The building with the turret in the middle of the roof ridge is the old press house, now a viticulture museum, and not the Rathaus. I can say nothing about the two prominent half timbered buildings behind the Andreas Kirche.
3 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche Present day exterior is the result of a late 19th century embellishment drive. (Halfway between Gothic and Nancy Jugendstil? Burgundian saying: as highly spired as a 'hennin'.)
4 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
5 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
6 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
7 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche cemetery winter
8 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche Right hand traffic area to the best of my knowledge. You still have to look both ways.
9 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
10 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
11 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche Family Benger tomb. A forge iron gate offers direct access. Locked by the way.
12 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche
13 Uhlbach Andreas-Kirche Stefan Weihler. Best guess by age and gender: muscular dystrophy.
14 Uhlbach Ochsen-Willie The inn comes with a chestnut shaded beer garden. (Not sure if you are allowed to call it that in a venerable wine village.)
15 Uhlbach Rathaus the hanging gardens
16 Uhlbach Rathaus Gaillardia grandiflora the hanging gardens
17 Uhlbach Rathaus the hanging gardens
18 Uhlbach Rathaus The eyes of the cabbage butterfly are speckled. You could probably replace them with thrush eggs. (Poe, wrily, whatever you find in your greatcoat pockets.)
19 Uhlbach Rathaus The picturesque Rathaus dates from 1612 or so a proud inscription claims.
Administrative footnote: Uhlbach is part of Untertürkheim which itself is incorporated into Stuttgart. Should translate into a much reduced workload for the local Rathaus. Skeletal crew only. (Somebody has to water all those gerania.)
20 Uhlbach Rathaus Pelargonium at the window
21 Uhlbach Rathaus
22 Uhlbach Rathaus Geranium (more exactly Pelargonium) is probably the most popular imitation plant for scaled down model houses. Anything green sprinkled with red will do. Dyed sawdust either way. The model trains just chugging by. Disjunctive: The actual Uhlbach never had a railway station. The price you have to pay for a somewhat secluded location. Screened off on three sides by the last spurs of the Schurwald. (The Obertürkheim train station and port facilities are reasonably close by. The wine barrels will roll down all by themselves. - Alexander the Great, those mountaineers are all the same. Always given to practical jokes when you show up.)
23 Uhlbach Rathaus Pelargonium window
24 Uhlbach Rathaus A kibitzer with a shiny reindeer nose. Apparently a permanent feature.
25 Uhlbach Rathaus kibitzer
26 Uhlbach Rathaus construction date and a sidewalk littered with a few gerania petals
27 Uhlbach Rathaus platain shrouded
28 Uhlbach Rathaus The Taco turret houses presently no bell. Maybe on tour.
29 Uhlbach Rathaus edible chestnuts, South side of the press house
30 Uhlbach Rathaus edible chestnuts
31 Uhlbach Rathaus Saturday matinee: The Rathaus is apparently also a popular backdrop for marriages. Not sure if a registrar's office is still located in the building. (Or does the kibitzer from across the street also moonlight as a wedding chaplain. Might explain the shiny nose.)
32 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival
33 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival
34 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival
35 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival
36 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival
37 Uhlbach Rathaus balloon festival, press house
38 Uhlbach geranium at the wall
39 Uhlbach geranium at the wall
40 Uhlbach, Lobelia erinus Lobelia from the trashcan
41 Uhlbach Lobelia erinus Lobelia from the trashcan
42 Uhlbach rackwagon with payload of gerania and angel trumpet
43 Uhlbach Virginias finest at the parking lot
44 Uhlbach Virginias finest
45 Uhlbach, Zinnia Zinnia out of Mehico
46 Uhlbach, Zinnia Zinnia out of Mehico
47 Uhlbach vicinity derelict vineyard shed
48 Uhlbach vicinity derelict vineyard shed
49 Uhlbach vicinity derelict vineyard shed
50 Uhlbach vicinity derelict vineyard shed, any excuse for drinking orange juice
51 Uhlbach vicinity Gideon Where time stood still. Spolia optima even. More prosaic (we cannot all be French chief strategists tracing missing baggage): The clockwork was apparently lost during the cargo lift. Always a problem when you want to translocate heavy machinery. [Scientology angle: delivery of heavy tower clocks in bygone times no problem at all. You just strap the goods on an idle glacier and wait long enough. Standard fares for erratic blocks do apply.]
52 Uhlbach vicinity Gideon where time stood still
53 Uhlbach vicinity best guess, wheelchair access ramp
54 Uhlbach vicinity rebus: find the hidden home owner (I think he left)
55 Uhlbach-vicinity alpha pylon with booster props
I know it will be Russian letters if you buy it as a bag of biscuits but I am not sure if pylons will fall into the same category. - Alpha male? (Probably the bad influence of all those fake reconstructions from Rhodes.) - Maoist spokesperson, we do not care about the mythological implications we just use them to combat illiteracy. - Dalai Lama: Just let me know if you have any problem with floating diacritical marks.
Possible sky jump location. The inscriptions tells you that with enough snow and a running start you can make it right into the market square of Uhlbach. (A Mary Poppins umbrella might be slightly safer.)
56 Uhlbach-vicinity alpha pylon, standard edition
57 Uhlbach-vicinity Phacelia congesta Doing the heraldic honors: Blue Curls, Caterpillars, Bienenfreund, Phacelia congesta syn Phacelia tanacetifolia, House of Hydrophyllaceae. - Comes with exserted stamens and a slowly unwinding Forget-me-not cyme. I suppose it is sown intentionally between the rows of vine to keep less welcome weeds at bay. Somewhat experimental. Origin Mehico. Some Roswell eye shapes. Shutter speed should set a lower limit for the wing beat.
