 Calw
Gateway to Calw: B296 and overhead rail viaduct (reverse truss bridge).
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Iron age technology against a slender, all purpose cellular phone relay tower. Some progress in rust proofing.
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Early Sunday morning, Altenburg Str or Burgsteige. (If there ever was castel (Burg) it is missing now.) Dressed stones were always in demand.
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sidewalk sweeping
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highly perched
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Some of the narrow streets did overtax my lens system. (Could also be warped timber).
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Sunrise emblazoned 'balloon' gable.
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Red sunrise, counter light enhanced.
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Steeple of the Lutheran Stadtkirche against the fountain silhouette.
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half timbered bonanza
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Stadtkirche (formerly also known as Peter and Paul church, Hirsau namesake). Color setting: dark tiles, black slate, reddish sandstone, green conifers. - Short history: A Medieval church and much of the rest of Calw was torched in 1692 (Melac year). The replacement church fell victim of a general modernization drive in the 1880ties. The present church dates from that time.
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Ridge with sentinels
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First attempt: A Black Forest Godiva. The band of woven in animals give it vaguely Celtic look. Epona should come close.
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Interactive sculpture, roughly, stick you head in the hole and hum (or whatever lions do). - Backdrop, shut down bookstore. Evidence of shifting distribution channels.
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View from under the arcades of the city hall (where meat was once sold). The arcades date from 1673, the view from 1981. The perambulator wheels look outsized by today's standards. All the half timbered buildings in the market square have been stripped of rough cast. Would feel hard pressed to say when that caught on. Maybe the 60ties.
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meeting at the market fountain
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The joint dormer windows are somewhat unusual. Siamese Twin effect. Additional highlights, one capsized aerial and one pair of ET shades. 'Zimmer' means that a room, half timbered or not, will be available. Dissimilation (or reverse).
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Inn sign with stray particle (the lion's share of mass rarely moves very much despite of momentum conservation).
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Looks like a CAD (computer aided design) house with small errors.
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The 'Roland' will act as fall back should the fountain lion fail to guard the municipal liberties. Nearly foolproof. The guardian figure, commando knight, will date from 1929 when the facade of the Town Hall was redesigned. (The replacement figurines in the niches of the bridge chapel date from about the same time. The niches will most likely have been empty in Hesse time.)
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One of the stick on plaques is missing. Not sure what would be a better fit, lawyer or dentist.
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dormer window with rangy visitors
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Did I mention that Hesse was born in Calw. Literary guru in a time when most practicing politicians were still suspect. (Favorite son status once removed.) Somewhat inaccurate. Hesse lived for the larger part of his adult life in Switzerland, Basel and Montagnola, and is buried there. Calw can only claim the childhood memories of her delegate to the literary Pantheon.
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Hesse as foreman, that I have to see. (Reportedly a clockwork factory. Buddhistic tie in: under the wheel and searching for a screw.)
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One memorial plaque comes never alone.
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Nikolaus Brücke and chapel. A bronze age persona waiting for the first customers of the day. A votive offering will do. - The bridge was reportedly part of Hesse's school way. Only problem, all known school buildings as well as Hesse's birth house are located at the port side of the Nagold (in rafting direction). Conclusion: playing hooky as usual. - The ridge rider of the chapel is twisted by a 45° angle. Screw top model.
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This bronze statue would look half as confident if it would know the present spot market price for copper and tin.
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Everyone wants to submit a last minute Glass Bead manuscript.
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Under construction, some Steppenwolf characters which did not quite make it.
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One of the less forge iron inspired inn signs.
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Half timbered house at the Nagold. Window view is not quite the same since whitewater rafting fell out of fashion.
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Bahnhofstr. South. Free parking space, tchai houses and vacant buildings. The air quality is good regardless of what part of Calw you dwell.
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Squatter door
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Window graffiti. Possibly partially encrypted. Better to leave that to an expert.
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Gable idyll near the furrier museum.
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Pegasus prone
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Cloud in a snowboard bathtub over a mixed birch grove (or whatever you want to make out of it).
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Sunset in Stuttgart Süd. (Minor violation of the unity of place.) Unverified: The building blocks look like second half of the 19th century. The blank space between the bay windows is filled with Art Nouveau type ornamentation, the non protruding pedimented windows somewhat older. Roofs are realized as truncated pyramids. Some piggy back double mansards with retrofitted skylights.
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