 Barbarakirche
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The church had a mighty sponsor in the person of Carl Eugen. Some expatriate artists to the court are buried there.
Confessional backdrop: Checkerboard religion was rubber stamped in the Peace Treaty of Augsburg, 1555. (Just a slightly euphemistic name for a business agreement.) Central point: The ruler and the town notables will act in loco parentis. Cuius-eius short code. (The parallel with prearranged marriages comes to mind. May still work out.) The present pattern of confessional pluralism in the area is very much the result of labor migration (Industrial Revolution pre and post war) and Jalta determined population redistribution. The confessional boundaries in the Augsburg Treaty became blurred by the mediatisations in the Napoleonic period. (Off hand: The bigger secular states eat the smaller ones.) The loco parentis clause no longer operative at that time. Some former Habsburg territories in the South were also added. Regional alignment (village by village al...
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Lourdes grotto
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Lourdes grotto
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 Barbarakirche
Lourdes grotto
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sta viator
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semi tolerated dove cot
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The altar pieces are from the Franciscan monastery in Öffingen which was closed in the Napoleonic period. The fit is excellent.
[A camera with a larger contrast range would have been a boon. Uncertain about the technical limitations. Still think that you should be able to stitch different exposure areas somehow together. Rembrandt is appropriate at its place (the moment of captured time, a single light source dominates the whole picture) but genre paintings and religious themes demand sometimes a more itinerative approach. I had something of the Nazarene school in mind (Waterhouse) where everything is in focus and equally well exposed.]
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The small Madonna on the altar was rescued from the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart at the time of the Reformation. (Thought at first that it was the larger Madonna of the Lourdes grotto.)
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 Barbarakirche
Stuttgarter Madonna
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lectern or pulpit
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The monstrance. Will have been a long time since this one was carried through a field of swaying wheat. Maybe better so. Can just imagine the official Green Peace reaction: Spiritually manipulated wheat, not with us.
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Involuntary humor: the faucet is hot water coded.
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first impression: St.Francis as Christopheros. Second guess: Antonius of Padua.
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 Hofen
crucifix at the footway to Öffingen.
|  Neckar embankment
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Daffodils
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Ferryman's abode. The old ferry house (which the Zwingburg Hofen was supposed to guard.) The ferry was still in use in the early 30ties.
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 Zwingburg
The castle went up in flames during the 30 Years War. Nothing religious. Somebody was in arrear with his campaign contributions. Only the thick, Hofen facing wall still stands. - Looks as if somebody left his scaling board at the breached wall. Always in a hurry.
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Mah Jongg player querry: where is the dragon eye.
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A Koch pinxit 1923
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The ruins of the next door stronghold were used as quarry. Educated guess, a gift from a highly placed donor. (What would the world look like if one could run all reflagged building material through a time machine to restore its erstwhile allegiance. Translatio imperii somewhat doubtful but translatio petri a well established fact.)
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 Zwingburg
Escarpment with Swallowwort.
- Did it rain recently like five minutes ago.
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Vineyards, weir bridge and some white cliffs
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