 anno 1686
Keisersche Forstlagerbuch. Standard reference work. The existence of a Staufic watchtower will have determined the location of the rather peripheral fortress church of the 14th century. There is still a chapel on chapel mountain, whatever the actual usage at the indicated date (game keeper house). The Rotenberg castle should nearly be visible.
|  Galluskirche
The pinnacled steeple of the St.Gallus church. Later renamed in honor of a soul searching Augustine monk from Eisenthal.
|  Galluskirche
|  Galluskirche
Dated watercolor. The last sections of the moat were filled in at the turn of the turn 20th century (used as fire water pond?). The building riding atop the wall served as school house. The sundial disappeared when the medieval curtain wall was torn down.
|  Konstanzer Pfleghof
The administrative building for local holdings of the Constance monastery. Linguistic ambivalence, the name sounds somewhat like a hospital, already present in Latin: 'Cura corporis' (physical hygiene) and 'procurator', administrator. (It is doubtful if Pontius Pilate actually walked around with a water can. The King James Bible has 'governor', the Luther Bible cultivator and physician ['Pfleger'] of the country.)
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 Konstanzer Pfleghof
|  Konstanzer Pfleghof
|  messy hook up
|  clutch of cop cars
The roof top strobe light (with built in Archimedean spiral? - looks that way) is a comparatively recent upgrade. Foolproof fallback method: glow-worms in preserving jars. Shake well before usage. Law enforcement cars in the Middle East skipped that stage entirely. - Minor value judgment, I do not believe that police does too much good without agreed on civic standards.
|  Zehntscheuer
propped up lintel of the renovated tithe house
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 old barn
|  old barn
the cracked lintel is tradition
|  old barn
Very small window with makeshift glazing. Safe span width. Unbroken lintel. (The lion gate in Mycenae comes with extra central thickness. The relief arch was camouflaged as a pair of rampant lions. Those builders of old probably knew their job.)
|  old barn
braced and pegged
|  old barn
the wattled and daubed parts between the timbers (in any case daubed)
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 rather modest house
|  backstreet
before the rain
|  Vordere Str
old house with vine trellis and slightly projection superstructure
|  Vordere Str
pharmacy
|  Vordere Str
A cheese box building from the Ehrhard time. (Election platform, prosperity for all.) Actually a bank. Tentative quote from the inauguration speech 'of timeless beauty, will endure the centuries, aere perennius..'. Matter of fact check list: no customer parking, shrouded in a welter of one-way streets, no room for expansion (center of a vintner town, you know what to expect). Only plus points, a favorable corner location and a glazed elevator shaft (on the yard side). The penthouse may have once housed the janitor in residence. Most likely rented out as a handy relay station at present. Free translation of the window stickers: Office space for rent. Personal assessment: Interest from the arcade game side more likely. The teller machine at the entrance hardly objectionable. (To avoid any misunderstanding, the bank still exists, it has just been relocated.)
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 Vordere-Str
It is no total loss as long as you have to pay no rent for the location of the teller machine.
|  Vordere-Str
In front of an empty 'money bin'.
The police officer wears a khaki colored summer uniform. Park ranger look. Game keeper green, Sherwood Forest tradition, still acceptable for the cold season. Personally associate the new dark blue uniforms which will be phased in during the coming years with international airports, diminutive body statue (subjective) and shoulder held walkie talkies. Tongue-in-cheek: Simply not true that the Versailles Treaty was all about lender and debtor nations and cut Trans-Atlantic cables (required or at least helpful for taking out war loans). The stipulated change in police dress code, somewhat overdue, would clearly fall in the ideological category. Concededly rather farfetched.
|  Vordere-Str
|  Vordere-Str
Still cluttered up with Xmas lighting. Technical: Three point force diagram. Trigonometric pot boiler. Any way you want to slice it and dice it.
|  Vordere-Str
Historic picture, selfsame street during the Dawes plan era. The corner houses are always the first to go but most of the other buildings are still around. Some covered street gutters.
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 grape trellis
a no longer too common hold out from the past
|  Stuttgarter Platz
Bygone splendor. Not bad but maybe no longer medical practice grade.
|  cherry blossom
Back to nature, Easter Season
|  cherry blossom
The small bumps of the leaf stems are nectar secreting. In any case sticky.
|  ornamental shrub
hardly true almond but something of this kind
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 Kerria japonica pleniforma
|  Kerria japonica pleniforma
|  spring dandelion
very rare
|  66 dandelion
|  Mahonia aquifolium
There are no cheese rinds littering the ground. The first set of leaves are sacrificed to rust (fungus infection).
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 Allium ursinum
Shady corner with Wild garlic and Forget-me-not.
|  'Afrika'
More spring colors. Backdrop, Eulenturm.
|  track record
The tramway net of Stuttgart reached Fellbach in the mid-20ties. The green rail to rail carpeting is more recent. (Dandelion, daisies and non flowering ribwort plantain)
|  track claw
The particular clamping will allow some thermal expansion. Common enough.
|  Plantago lanceolata
Ribwort Plantain with wilted stamens
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