Date(s): 2006+. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 74 of 74 Total. 4611 Visits.
1 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.
2 Galluskirche The pinnacled steeple of the St.Gallus church. Later renamed in honor of a soul searching Augustine monk from Eisenthal.
3 Galluskirche
4 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.
5 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.)
6 Konstanzer Pfleghof
7 Konstanzer Pfleghof
8 messy hook up
9 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.
10 Zehntscheuer propped up lintel of the renovated tithe house
11 old barn
12 old barn the cracked lintel is tradition
13 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.)
14 old barn braced and pegged
15 old barn the wattled and daubed parts between the timbers (in any case daubed)
16 rather modest house
17 backstreet before the rain
18 Vordere Str old house with vine trellis and slightly projection superstructure
19 Vordere Str pharmacy
20 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.)
21 Vordere-Str It is no total loss as long as you have to pay no rent for the location of the teller machine.
22 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.
23 Vordere-Str
24 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.
25 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.
26 grape trellis a no longer too common hold out from the past
27 Stuttgarter Platz Bygone splendor. Not bad but maybe no longer medical practice grade.
28 cherry blossom Back to nature, Easter Season
29 cherry blossom The small bumps of the leaf stems are nectar secreting. In any case sticky.
30 ornamental shrub hardly true almond but something of this kind
31 Kerria japonica pleniforma
32 Kerria japonica pleniforma
33 spring dandelion very rare
34 66 dandelion
35 Mahonia aquifolium There are no cheese rinds littering the ground. The first set of leaves are sacrificed to rust (fungus infection).
36 Allium ursinum Shady corner with Wild garlic and Forget-me-not.
37 'Afrika' More spring colors. Backdrop, Eulenturm.
38 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)
39 track claw The particular clamping will allow some thermal expansion. Common enough.
40 Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain with wilted stamens
41 Plantago major Flowering spike of Greater Plantain with hover fly. - [The symbol of the eponymous Plantagenets is the broom (planta genista) and not Plantain. Ultimately the same root. The plant with the foot shaped leaves and the crop planted in terra formed, leveled grounds. Flatfooted or cultivated. (I guess you can throw everything in your Ricola soup kettle.)]
42 highrise against vineyards fast forward into the fall season
43 highrise against vineyards
44 playground the Indians are coming. In any case conic.
45 hidden access ramp rafistolé - A gray, non-descript well and water reservoir house a short distance higher up Chapel mountain may mark the actual location of a former underground Mithras sanctuary. The altar stone was carted off, most likely by Duke Ludwig who started a Roman lapidarium in the capital in 1583. No reason to waste perfectly good kharma on vineyards. The stone was for a long time located in a vineyard wall which may have been similar to the one shown.
46 Mithras altar
Mithras altar. There is a replica in the municipal museum. The dagger is plunged deeply. The Phrygian cap, somewhat distinct from a mitre. Further adjunct: an oil lamp. Some zodiacal lore. (The planetary side 'altars' in character mask fashion are only shown in Stuttgart.) The raven is a messenger in good standing. Not always the case. The tip of the 'USB tail', actually stylized ears of corn (imminent transubstantiation), means that the Xmas sacrifice, on the 24th of December whatever the particular name, has been accepted and that the earth will once again be girthed in swaying fields of wheat. The shrine will have been patronized by the military and by the civilian population from the Cannstatt area. The altar is not the most well preserved of its kind.
[The JiffyLube school claims that a grease pit was used for the adult baptism. Contested by most experts but the idea of an oil drenched centurion, bull blood will come close enough, is hard to dispell. In perspective, s...
47 Aster novae angliae (pink) Vineyard with Red star aster (or something very similar)
48 Aster novae angliae (pink)
49 Aster novae angliae (pink)
50 Aster novae angliae (pink)
51 Aster novae angliae (pink)
52 more Michaelmas Asters could be Aster dumosum
53 more fall Aster
54 Cosmos galore
55 trade exhibition poster, 1935 Tie in with the flower theme. Not exactly of recent vintage. The pale eyed flower lady is apparently in training for the coming Riefenstahl Olympics in Berlin. Hence the flipper hands. [The great county village Fellbach became a township in 1934. Some horticulturists declined the honor to participate in the accompanying pageantry.]
56 Widmayer 1930 Headstone, old cemetery. Some recurrent motives. Didactic tag, nothing is ever discarded, everything is just recycled.
57 Onobrychis viciifolia Sainfoin (safe to eat for any long eared onager near a convenient manger /crib). Landfills and heath are the preferred habitats.
58 Onobrychis viciifolia
59 Verbascum thapsiforme Denseflower Mullein with branched spikes (could also be Verbascum thapsus). Am reasonably sure that it is unrelated with Seguro cactus.
60 Verbascum thapsiforme Denseflower mullein
61 Verbascum thapsiforme
62 Verbascum thapsiforme
63 Verbascum, industrial-zone Glasshouse belt and industrial zone cheek by jowl. (The Hagia Sophia on a slightly foggy day.)
64 industrial zone Unknown type of vice with dumbbell attachment. Looks a bit like one of those training devices for knight errants. Quintaine practice. You had to hit one arm and then duck before you got whacked by the other. (The quintuplet type name harks back all the way to the designated drill area of a legionary camp.)
65 a lot of scaffolding (Possibly a new rigging floor for an open air cinema - I have no idea.)
66 a lot of scaffolding
67 a lot of scaffolding
68 a lot of scaffolding
69 a lot of scaffolding
70 a lot of scaffolding is this akin to a knot in a hanky. First thing on Monday, fill up the gas tank of the crane.
71 a lot of scaffolding Canadian Golden Rod and Mallow (most likely Small tree mallow). Disturbed soil should cover it.
72 Immenrode Consolidated vineyard landscape with glass houses. Not a good picture but of some historic interest. The glass houses indicate the most likely location of Immenrode (tentative spelling) a small settlement near Fellbach which disappeared in the 17th century. Literally not a stone left. Blame it on the souvenir hunters.
[Some more highlights from town history. Fellbach did fall shy of a free imperial city status. Lack of critical mass. It became instead a core holding of the Württemberg upstart dynasty after the fall of the Staufer and as such had to bear its share of burdens, including punitive campaigns from anti-Württemberg, Esslingen anchored alliances, punitive actions which were often directed against the Remstal rather than Stuttgart (easier pickings). Fellbach did likewise not fare too well in the 30 Years War. Melac subsequently paid a courtesy visit (en route to Schorndorf). Predictable outcome. There is always a good reason for doing the things you do best. ...
73 loam plain of Schmiden A Napoleonic army camped here. Most likely in connection with the bridge battle of Cannstatt. The future of the Austrian holdings in the South-West was at stake. Semi-official tag in later negotiations: 'mass d’échange'. The more decisive engagements took place near Ulm and at Austerlitz. The Code Civil Emperor himself (there were several emperors at large at the time) may have briefly looked down from Chapel mountain. Needless to say that there was no harvest in that year.
[The loam plain extends to Waiblingen and beyond. Some brick and pottery making is attested in Roman times (clay stamps). Possible tie in, the local word for 'bucket' is still 'amphora' (regardless of the number of handles, an amphora has two). The Duden (Webster once removed) gets the original spelling nearly right ('Eimer'). Again, just a possible tie in. The loan word could be likewise explained by trade contacts. The more traditional Latin bucket word is 'situla' (s...
74 wartime snapshot Air mine damage. Eulenspiegel take: Looks like free timber come nightfall. Farsighted owners will always tag their rafters with colored ribbons. Easier to sort it out afterwards. A conveyor belt rotunda might also help if there is a larger number of claimants. - I probably should add a didactic tag.
