Date(s): 2006. Photos by aymar55@yahoo.com. 1 - 50 of 50 Total. 2735 Visits.
1 Mühlhausen, Bezirksamt The name is somewhat deceptive. The thing started out as a private family mansion (main building dates back to 1813, Palm family). Municipal ownership came only much later. Certainly helps to explain the gracefulness.
The old foliage acts as color sink.
2 Mühlhausen, Bezirksamt
3 Mühlhausen, Bezirksamt
4 Engelburg Engelburg, the left bank pendant to the Zwingburg. Good things come in pairs. In truth, hardly anythings remains except this root cellar. (Where the distaff side huddled together during the final bombardment. You can probably make up your own story. No hard and fast rules.) Not even clear what became of the stones. (That new downtown McDonald's certainly a prime suspect. Just a hunch.)
Fringe benefit, the open basement lends itself for ground level shots of the local flora. Trench level so to speak.
10 Engelburg Scilla bifolia. Stamens and tepals are color coordinated.
11 Engelburg Cordalis cava (Hollow Larkspur). - The illegal access holes clearly visible. Not every bumble bee is equipped with the thrombosis of a pachyderm. Nature's own way of patching difficult computer games.
12 Engelburg Cordalis cava
13 Engelburg Lamium galeobdolon (Golden dead nettle) with variegated leaves. The variegation more the rule than the exception. As for a similar variations, the banding of the central leaf vein of Spotted Red Deadnettle. (Could admittedly just be pigeon droppings.) Most likely cause: Blister airbags under the top layer of cells. Birch bark know how. Not completely sure if you can lumb that together.
14 Engelburg Lamium galeobdolon, variegated
15 Engelburg Lamium galeobdolon, variegated
16 Lamium maculatum variegated Red Dead Nettle. More or less the same story.
This chuch was commissioned by Reinhard von Mühlhausen, a well heeled member of the court of Charles IV in Praha. Famous hidalgo saying at the time, go East young man, go East. The technical know how was provided by the workshop of Peter Parler, of Veitsdom fame.
25 Veitskapelle three knocks and a butler will show up
26 Veitskapelle Strange, no keys under the cast iron flowerpot. There goes the Infocom plot. The carpet rack between the external buttresses looks like an important way station. Three circle ups will qualify you for the next round.
27 Veitskapelle guided tours are offered
28 Veitskapelle Glimpse under the circus tent. Invite a plate armored knight to your wedding. All can be arranged. Burials inside the church maybe excepted. Founder dynasty privilege. - The stencil marks on the wall look familiar.
29 Veitskapelle Excursion into the Bryophyte realm: Tortulis muralis does rather well on the copings of old enclosure walls. Nomen est omen. Only thing missing, a flock of grazing miniature sheep. (Should rhyme with something from Steinbeck.)
30 Tortula muralis The extensions of the marked leaf veins (stray peanut gene) may work as dew collectors. Bromeliad technology before its time. (old pic)
31 Tortula muralis The common name, 'Wall Screw Moss' or similar, refers to the sporophyte stalks (setas) which act as hygrometers. Of debatable usefulness. Possibly just inborn curiosity. Let us see our neck of the wood while we have a chance. (old pic)
32 Walpurgiskirche Never completely rebuild after the war for whatever reasons. Could now be called a 'folly'.
The church stands on the place of the 13th century castle (Heidenburg) which - rather predictably - was used as quarry. The castle was destroyed in 1312 in some forgotten war (broader context, townships against feudalism. Esslingen carried that particular day.) The castle chapel may have served as nucleus for the later church.
No idea if Napoleon ever harangued impromptu dog walkers with shopping bags in front of pyramids.
Location of a church sponsored youth festival in the early 50ties.
33 Walpurgiskirche And who cares for a missing roof. Main thing, a sheltered porch.
34 Walpurgiskirche
35 Walpurgiskirche Sedimental stone, nearly did spell it sentimental, under partial decompression. Next time better respect the natural grain.
36 Walpurgiskirche against a swing frame
37 Walpurgiskirche a patch of blue sky
38 Walpurgiskirche The Romanic window arches are there, only thing missing is a suitable backdrop. - The arch is made of tegula type, Roman bricks. Flat cakes in stone. No longer much in demand. The grid insets for the stained glass windows can still be made out.
39 Walpurgiskirche Weathered wall with Greater Celandine. Like a page out of a textbook on signature lore (the subject matter was rediscovered by Paracelsus). Particular disposition: Leaves sport alveolar lobes. Appropriate interpretation, silicosis dispelling. Common problem for Edelweiss poachers.
