Date(s): 2010. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 20 of 20 Total. 2598 Visits.
1 Bottwar 06 For the space-time confused: the wine bibbing stork is fixed, the circling motor traffic is not.
2 Bottwar, Valeriana dumps make for good counterfoils
3 Bottwar, city hall a Renaissance survivor
4 Bottwar, city hall The stork version of the cuckoo clock. - Not sure about the frog catching. But what can you expect from an analogue PlayStation. The Stephen Wozniak in charge of the choreography was Philip Hahn.
5 Bottwar, city hall the 'oval office' cum court room
6 Bottwar, city hall Stork or kiwi, who can keep them apart. - The Hauff tale about a shape changing into stork form is set in Baghdad not in Bottwar. Bowing three times to the East and mumbling a 'mutabor' (transmutation Latin at the grasp of everyone) was supposed to do the trick. Helpful adjunct, pixie dust or something equivalent like fern seed. (Just so that you can put the blame on missing ingredients in case the transformation does not work. It is never the fault of the formula.) - The honorific stork title 'Adebar' is Germanic rather Latin. Most likely meaning 'good fortune bearer'. It is no contraction of a purely hypothetical 3rd person future passive form of 'adire' (*adibitur) as I first erroneously assumed. Misled by half remembered transformation spells. - The inauguration date of the new, stork delivered town hall is also displayed.
7 Bottwar, city hall Lange Gasse
8 Bottwar Perpendicular it is not but some would even describe the Matterhorn as ramshackle. The Gaudi worthy creation miraculously survived all building inspections since 1542. Security compromise, just fence off any available roof edge with 'cowcatchers'.
9 Bottwar A flatiron building before its time.
10 Bottwar, Martinskirche quiet street
11 Bottwar communal 'love me' board
12 Bottwar, corkscrew willow nature contained by geometry
13 Bottwar These juggernaut accessories date back to a time before radar traps. The missing rungs indicates the location of the wide bottomed grape vat. - The vantage point was dictated by the constraints of the locality: the long side of this shed flanks a narrow passage to a postern gate in the town wall - which does double duty as lean-to for the adjoining buildings - which is probably the main reason why it is still in place. Built-in heritage protection. - Probably needless to point out that most town walls moonlight also as dead letter boxes. Cold War tradition. It is not litter bugging if you enhance it with some gibberish. The secret, as always, is the added make believe value.
14 in between, Annasee limited shipping
15 in betwee, Jesus shed Nobody wants to pay for publicity anymore. The yellow flowering shrub could be Kerria japonica pleniflora. Hard to tell from the picture.
16 Kleinbottwar, Burg Schaubeck The corner ashlars are trompe-l'œil even as the Baroque window pediments. Cost saving measures after repeated tribulations (from Ziska to Wallenstein to Melac). Bad sign if even the nobility is leached out.
17 Kleinbottwar, Burg Schaubeck The blazon of the shutters for what it is worth (which is not very much, too many copyright infringements): per chevron azure and argent. Mildy Bavarian. - The lintel fractures hint at badly executed or missing relieve arches.
18 Kleinbottwar, Burg Schaubeck Near the gate: the ubiquitous lion rampant (rampant to sinister). The underlying problem, Simbas everywhere (Plantagenets, Guelfs, Staufer).
