Date(s): spring 2006. Photos by aymar. 1 - 56 of 56 Total. 3315 Visits.
1 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche The choir of the church was built in 1457, the nave in 1468-70, the main bell was cast in 1499, the tower followed in 1623. The protracted building by stages common enough.
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The linden shrouded clock face. Actually two clock faces at right angles. There is no clock in the opposite corner. The counter weight of the minute hand is in gecko red (standard counter weight camouflage on red clock faces). The edge on clock hand acount the corner is also visible.
The present day clock is radio controlled. The same digital age flows in all.
There is a small renovation plaque just below the clock. 1879.
5 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche Commemorative Jonathan Deiniger plaque. The date 1879 matches the small renovation plaque beneath the clockface.
6 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche single linden seed capsule with bracted stem on churchyard wall
7 Viburnum rhytidophyllum Leatherleaf Viburnum. Evergreen. No Biblical footprint (Prestor John import, actually China), but well suited for this kind of janitor duty.
8 Viburnum rhytidophyllum
9 Viburnum rhytidophyllum
10 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche Dionysy Zweiffel epitaph from 1706. I somewhat doubt if the fit with the blessing fresco hand is natural. Very different styles. The border of the text cartouche overlaps the window frames.
11 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche Stone epitaph for the mayor. Lapidarium in the tower base.
12 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche plaster medallion, ceiling. Handshake with a winged caterer. Style might match popular Bible editions of the Metternich era.
13 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche the horned victim of a cradle robbing incidence pointing his unerring finger into the future. Special space-time privilege. Minor attribute: Aesculap staff.
14 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche an adult baptism at a slow flowing river
15 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche a resurrection scene. The boneman bites the dust.
16 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche the net ribbed choir
17 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche The well balanced flower alter. Naturalistic rood. Nail position shifted halfway towards the wrist. (Keywords: in stigmata position or a transfixed metacarpus). The fixed rear view mirror of the organist throws a glint. Vestry door to the left.
18 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche The choir frescoes are in a sorry state of preservation. Interpretation not always easy as it is. Basic question, Dante type purgatory or a verdant garden of paradise. Somewhat incongruent detail, the undershot watermill. Could be a soul processing device. A crowned head is turned back but some animal shape has crossed the barrier. The path might eventually lead to a Civitas Dei. - Remaining frescos somewhat too Virgin orientated for a Lutheran church.
[Cybele ante proscriptionem. - It has to be admitted that numerous parts of the scriptures call for unrelenting vigiliance against deviationism from the revealed truth. Any way to circumvent the 8th commandment.]
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20 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche familiar territory - color enhanced
21 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche the stained glass window of the apse. Fairly universal post 60ties style with a few Chagall touches (liberal treatment of color).
22 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche the baroque pulpit (best guess, could be older)
23 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche The cobwebs in the baldachin will hardly go undetected. Never underestimate the keen eyed house keeper.
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"Memorial Book". Calligraphic labor of love by Wilhelm Holz, anno 1948. No sharp cut off point. Probably unrealistic to expect miracles. Things have gone pretty far if you have to scour the command headquarters for cleaning ladies to sign the capitulation papers. Surrealistic ceremonies first. Just a personal viewpoint.) - The whole book would amount to about four pages in telephone directory print.
The church chronic also reports an incident of 'near extinction'. The whole village being reduced to 16 people in 1638. Against 306 death entries in the two preceding years. Some nearby villages never recovered. Literally not a stone left.
25 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche "Memorial book"
26 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche war memorial
27 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche war memorial
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Proximity of parish church to cemetery is no longer too common. Peripheral relocation nearly the rule. Without disparagement, Beinstein never attracted too much manufacturing attention. Somewhat comparable in this respect with Uhlbach. (The better known Stihls are located a few river bends further down.)
First impression as usual not completely correct. There exist an overflow cemetery across the street. But there are still free lots in the old one.
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30 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche well grounded
31 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche grave with snowdrops. Backdrop, funeral parlor with glass skin porch.
32 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche snowdrops
33 Beinstein, village street to the left: last year's patch of Golden Rod [Solidago].
34 Beinstein, village street a slice of shed. Unfavorable volume to surface ratio.
35 Beinstein, village street Barn with half timbered superstructure. Door and window lintel with relieve arches. Both uncracked.
36 Beinstein, village street Leatherleaf Arrowwood. Looks churchyard familiar.
37 Beinstein, village street Half timbered superstructure with roof tile infills. Fairly common. Coco Cola bottles were also used ocassionally. (Textbook mentions only misfired pitchers.) Personal suggestion: how about junk mail.
38 Beinstein, village street the partially boarded up window. Not sure about the ventilation tube. Somewhat inadequate for a methane infested cow stable.
39 Beinstein, village street roof tile infill
40 Beinstein, village street Forbidding looking East wall. Only the corner stones are fully dressed. Three ceramic isolators pinch hit as sundials.
41 Beinstein, village street The denuded beam reveals some tripwire in zigzag formation. Logbook entry: Wire aided plaster fixation. It did not work. Forensic assessment: Unequal thermal expansion rates.
42 Beinstein, village street more wire aided plaster fixation. Not much wire left but some of the staples are still visible.
43 Beinstein, village street looks like a built in 'outhouse'
44 Beinstein, village street geometric progression (textbook: projecting upper floor structure.)
45 Beinstein, hand pump Hand pump in front of the old baking house. (Conjectural: Better than nothing. The seeping in Rems water will have been at least slightly filtered.)
46 Beinstein, Rathaus Build 1582. The lower floor may have once housed a horse drawn fire engine
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49 Beinstein, Rathaus the small bell will be rung for the 4 o'clock news
50 Linden tree harboring Fire Bugs
The legendary linden tree before the village. The furrowed bark harbors a 'hive' of Fire Bugs. Coloring somewhat at variance with the default textbook warpaint of Pyrrhocoris apterus but should still be kin. - The aposematic coloring (most Heteroptera are practitioners of darkest skunk arts) differs somewhat from the bee model. Birds will probably learn the nuances in bird school. - Firebugs are omnivorous. Stomach of a sea gull. The food pellets of battery chickens will certainly be acceptable. The whole floor of a hen house covered with a living carpet of roiling red.
51 Linden tree harboring Fire Bugs
52 Linden tree harboring Fire Bugs
53 Pyrrhocoris apterus textbook warpaint
54 the pitstop beneath the Linden tree Unverified rumor has it that head carried baskets of fresh produce could be alighted at such rest points. Personal opinion: neolithic sideboard for milk-shakes.
55 Beinstein, 'Rialto Brücke' The 'Rialto' Bridge of Beinstein, built 1825.
56 Beinstein, coat of armes The name 'Bein-stein' means 'bone marker'. A few grave mounts were left over from Roman times.
