Patrician houses, the town fortifications and a look into the chamber of half timbered secrets (Town Museum)
Date(s): summer 2006. Photos by aymar. 1 - 52 of 52 Total. 3561 Visits.
1 Market square, the Old City Hall Arcade games may have once been played here. Somehow they must have gotten their name.
2 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.
3 Historic Center, the New City Hall The hoolah hoop sculpture in front of the New City Hall.
4 Market square crammed for space
5 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.
6 double chimney house Rear view. The plumbing looks like a recent addition. Three of the four dish sets can be rotated in one plane.
7 double chimney house Bädertörle side
8 doube chimney house
9 double chimney house
10 Burgermühlenweg 'on ne file pas'
11 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.
12 mustachioed Neidkopf 'fright head'. Some will obviously look more winsome than others.
13 nearly Moorish
14 street light street light against half timbered structure
15 Historic Center There is always a Long Street and a Short Street. One way to keep things apart.
16 Historic Center
17 Historic Center a synchronized closing of the shutters is recommended
18 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.
19 Municipal Museum
20 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.)
21 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.
22 Municipal Museum exotic infills
23 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.
24 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.]
25 Municipal Museum Prepegged. Before the application of the rough cast. State of the art implant technology.
26 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.
27 fortifications, the covered town wall auxiliary dungeon (looks that way, certainly damp enough)
28 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.)
29 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.
30 fortification, the covered town wall braced timber
31 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.]
32 Beinsteiner Tor the gate dates back to the 13th century
33 Beinsteiner Tor
34 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.
35 Beinsteiner Tor The municipal coat of arms from 1491 with the three stag antlers of Württemberg.
36 Beinsteiner Tor town facing side
37 Beinsteiner Tor Basil on the window sill
38 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.
39 Hochwachtturm looks like a banner ad
40 Hochwachtturm
41 Hochwachtturm
42 Hochwachtturm true professionals use only one hand
45 Hochwachtturm trendy gable. All non load bearing infill has been removed
46 Agapanthus praecox Freely, ornamental onion. I have it from reliable sources that the plant name occurs in Rowling. Possibly a pun on 'agape'.
47 Agapanthus praecox tithe house square beside the Hochwachtturm
48 Waiblingen_Xm_01 Well weathered, tutelary head, corner stone of a mill house. 'Neidkopf' variation ('Neidkopf' even as in dragon boat).
49 Waiblingen_Xm_02 Trash digging: car jack and discarded media content. Vintage Alex Sanders. Versailles dubbed and pigeonholed. Super VHS something. (I always did wonder about the purpose of those gigantic external reels on mill houses.)
50 Waiblingen_Xm_03 arched doorway in festive mood
51 Waiblingen_Xm_04 Market square
52 Waiblingen_Xm_05 the spirit of the wall (sort of)
