 Market square, the Old City Hall
Arcade games may have once been played here. Somehow they must have gotten their name.
|  Market square, the Old City Hall
The cardboard figure might pinch hit for a missing clockwork menagerie. Certainly gives the place a lived in look. Some police award.
|  Historic Center, the New City Hall
The hoolah hoop sculpture in front of the New City Hall.
|  Market square
crammed for space
|  double chimney house
Would not like to mount an aerial on that roof. Periscope idea might work. Most roof tiles can be removed from the inside.
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 double chimney house
Rear view. The plumbing looks like a recent addition. Three of the four dish sets can be rotated in one plane.
|  double chimney house
Bädertörle side
|  doube chimney house
|  double chimney house
|  Burgermühlenweg
'on ne file pas'
|
 Feldmes 1701
As far as I understand the job description it means surveyor. Depiction of a theodolite would have clarified things. In any case a cheerful little fellow.
|  mustachioed Neidkopf
'fright head'. Some will obviously look more winsome than others.
|  nearly Moorish
|  street light
street light against half timbered structure
|  Historic Center
There is always a Long Street and a Short Street. One way to keep things apart.
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 Historic Center
|  Historic Center
a synchronized closing of the shutters is recommended
|  Municipal Museum
Municipal Museum Waibling. The crane is no outdoor exhibit. Some genuine construction work was in going on. Not that you can ever be sure in todays stunt world.
|  Municipal Museum
|  Municipal Museum
The space between the floor joints is decorated with ornamental scrolls. (The custom may have started as levitation runes to increase the load bearing capacity of the support structure. Not sure if it would work for bench pressing.)
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 Municipal Museum
exotic infills. Chipped pitchers are used in this case. Recycled cathode ray tubes would obviously also do. Fringe benefit, better thermal isolation and better acoustics.
|  Municipal Museum
exotic infills
|  infills and tegula technique, elerine, Alanya-Turkey
Look over the fence. These houses are half timbered but the timbers are not truly load bearing. The spliced in boards will act mainly as anti-shearing 'clamp'. No wild infills are permitted. The stones and thin Roman 'tegulas' actually support the structure.
|  Municipal Museum
Wall surface prepared for rough cast. - [Willfully deceptive cross filings: This method for speeding up surfboards did not quite work. Neolithic threshing devices also looked somewhat similarly. The underside was in this case studded with flint. The general idea was to ride rough sled over sheaves of corn. The whole contrivance weighted down by an on board family member.]
|  Municipal Museum
Prepegged. Before the application of the rough cast. State of the art implant technology.
|
 Municipal Museum
A gingerbread man riding the roof ridge. A candle might once have been inserted. There is a peg-hole in scalp location. Admit that it makes no sense. Matching fortune cookie wisdom: Who climbs on roof ridge to light candle will soon take a deep fall.
>Folder with a whole boatload of ridge riders and tile wards.
|  fortifications, the covered town wall
auxiliary dungeon (looks that way, certainly damp enough)
|  fortifications, the covered town wall
'Bädertörle'. Not sure if it qualifies as postern gate. (Three formerly inundation prone alder islands hug the Rems side of the town wall. Now all connected by pedestrian bridges.)
|  fortification, the covered town wall
Braced timber stripped of infills. Bracing is one of the standard solutions for a flush crossing of two pieces of timber. Half the thickness of each beam is sacrificed. Engineering verdict: Inherently wasteful. - Semantics: From Lat. "bracus" (='arm'), in the present sense more exactly 'crossed arms', selfsame root as 'pretzel'. I am not sure about the actual carpentry usage of these terms. I believe it is called 'bracing' when diagonal support is added (as an anti shearing measure) and 'halving' when beam ends or boards are joint in the selfsame way.
|  fortification, the covered town wall
braced timber
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 fortification, the covered town wall
Mortise and tenon joint. The alternative method for interlocking timber, cut away view. The 'mortise' is the cavity which receives the tenon. The use of angle irons or the like is usually frowned upon in the time frame under consideration. [It is unclear why an Arab word (mortise) is used for a technique which was well mastered in Roman and Celtic times. No wagon wheel without mortised hubs and felloes.]
|  Beinsteiner Tor
the gate dates back to the 13th century
|  Beinsteiner Tor
|  Beinsteiner Tor
The two layer 'sgraffito' mural from 1938. Technical: a second layer of plaster is partially scraped off to create an intaglio effect (sunken relief). Will still require subsequent coloring for polychrome pictures. (Personal suggestion: how about using soot coated glass bricks and a dental water jet.)
The defensive motive somewhat premonitory. As for the past, Waiblingen did not fare too well in the 30 Years War. There is actually a hint of lapping and strangely windblown flames. Otherwise a synoptic representation, mix of various types of armor and heraldic symbols. The Staufic lion charges are prominent. The lance of the Frundsberg 'lansquenet' is too short. Artistic license. No known justification for the snarling dog.
|  Beinsteiner Tor
The municipal coat of arms from 1491 with the three stag antlers of Württemberg.
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 Beinsteiner Tor
town facing side
|  Beinsteiner Tor
Basil on the window sill
|  Hochwachtturm
'Watch tower' with keeper's 'penthose'. Might have been a good job. Workload certainly more than bearable. Only requirement, a tape recorder and a good set of loadhailers.
|  Hochwachtturm
looks like a banner ad
|  Hochwachtturm
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