Date(s): 2010. Photos by Aymar. 1 - 23 of 23 Total. 2878 Visits.
1 Steinheim Dental clinic, next right turn
2 Steinheim The exploding greenhouse. Just a matter of time till the last pane will go.
3 Steinheim it is also known as the knock out effect
4 Steinheim Rietlingshäuser Str (one of the intersecting main streets). Most of the traffic has been diverted to a by-pass.
5 Steinheim, Martinskirche The prehistoric museum (Urmensch Museum) is right beside the church. Just a partition wall away.
6 Steinheim I am afraid I could not whip up too much enthusiasm. Prehistoric museum are a lot like McDonald's. Selfsame layout everywhere. The ground floor is usually taken up by a mastodon or a woolly mammoth reconstruct. The car dealership minus the revolving dais. Climb the companionway and you will be disgorged onto the Homo erectus deck (Pleistocene incorporated). Top floor, fur and apparel will be await you. Well known problem: there is only one unique exhibit and the rest is padding. Href without the mouse button. Could be worse. Say superannuated natural history museums dating back to a time before the Discovery channel. For the truly curious, the social spell casting room is located on the 5th floor. Somewhat off limits in a 3 story building. (The 4th floor would show the gradual transformation of shaman staffs into glass topped manual gear shifts.)
Some of the show boards are by Prof. K.D. Adam. Obviously just the grammar without the human element. And sometimes you mis...
7 outdoor exhibit near Asperg 'Cloud Gate' by Failmezger. Neanderthal male, understandingly, whatever you wish to call it. - This and the next three pictures are from a thematically related open air exhibit in Asperg (apparently jointly sponsored by a hotel and the municipality).
8 outdoor exhibit near Asperg Lamp post in the wheat, sort of. And where is the catcher. Second attempt, aligned perpendicularity.
9 outdoor exhibit near Asperg A replica of the vaunted Steinheim skull. The Homo erectus who has not yet decided if he wants to go Neanderthal full hog (better language: proto). The prominent eye ridges are just a beginning. Ca 300.000 BC (other sources 200.000 BC). Skull injury wise not too different from anything you could pick up from a neglected battle field. - Waste not, want not: The possible dovetail theory that the missing mandible of the Steinheim man drifted down the Neckar (white water rafting) and then got stuck on a sand bank at the Mauer stretch is incorrect. The jawbone unearthed there (birth hour of the Homo heidelbergensis) is roughly twice as old.
10 outdoor exhibit near Asperg Black & Decker, Mark one. Core exhibit of any prehistoric museum. (Time for a sharp exit if your dentist unveils this one. No objection against surplus sales in general.) Assessment: a progressive, dead hand design (the weight stone). The variable attack angle problem has however not been fully solved. Would predict a tendency to skew (which you would want to avoid, even as toenails and slanted axe heads). Possibly still within the tolerance limits of its time. Different problem, the twirling drill would perforate the pressure applying beam much quicker than the underlying work piece. Possible countermeasures: selective lubrication. Not that I can spot any jar of rendered cave bear fat. Thirdly, the forked upright posts would hamper the sawing motion. Unrelated suspicion, the frame part of the design was copycatted from an olive press (which is rather forgiving in respect to precision, squashed is squashed).
11 Steinheim the pastel colored version of half timbered
12 Steinheim or Murr I love this house. The partially walled up window commutes with a stable. The mail first class door is to the right. There is obviously some kind of partition wall. But just think of the possibilities. The salesman at the door, just press the button and the two halves will castle. Better than a Piscator revolving stage. Just try to palm off your overpriced home improvement scheme now. It is nowadays also called a boss key. Incidentally, Brecht probably stole the revolving stage idea from a prohibition script (and who will notice it among all that spliced in Sinclair Lewis and Charles Irving).
13 Steinheim or Murr dreaming of Cnossos
14 Murr, Peterskirche Some stones date back to the 12th century. Present appearance, 18th century. - Regular billeting by storks (the empty nest ring on the ridge) ended in 1955. Going the way of the bald eagle. On flies and frogs and food chains. DDT 'consumption' (but not production) peaked in 1959 in the most affected parts of the first world [meaning, I do not know the exact details]. As for cause and effect, that was 3 years before Rachel Carson's whistle blowing (a reference to her landmark book). It can also be observed that the storks did not come back even decades after the ban of the agricultural use of DDT.
15 Murr, Peterskirche
Download MOV 16 Murr Peterskirche.mov Multi media test (pealing church bells), ca 1200 KB. Download takes too long.
17 Murr, Peterskirche The buttressed church hill. More crossfire efficient fortifications came later. Peace dividend, free partitioning.
18 Murr, Peterskirche Nettle-leaved Bellflower
19 Murr, Peterskirche Dotted Loosestrife (Lysimachia punctata), primrose family
20 Murr, Peterskirche Personal assessment: Great War monument with gay pride overtones.
21 Murr, Peterskirche
22 Murr Neglected dwelling (urban renovation zone). Under the paneling the sand stone.
23 Murr An ivy and black locust shrouded baking house. Far right, elder.
