You only see what you know (Goethe)
Hainburg an der Donau is considered the easternmost city in Austria. Its location on the Porta Hungarica made it a historically significant border city for centuries. A well-preserved 13th-century town wall with many towers still bears witness to this today. [German]
The Loos House (Looshaus) is a central work of the Viennese Modern Age (Wiener Moderne). Architect Adolf Loos designed it in 1910. Because of the missing decorative elements above the windows, the Viennese called the building “The house without eyebrows”. [German]
On a wall of the Hildesheim Town Hall, you find this Elle (ell). In the past, merchants on the local market square used to measure their fabrics in ells. The publicly displayed piece formed a benchmark for the correct length of the marketer’s ells.
Cute! I found this group of teddy bears in front of a doll shop. Can you imagine my surprise to meet bears in the streets of Nuremberg? On the other hand, it wasn’t my first bear-related experience on this day.
Classic hand water pump seen in the streets of Leipzig.
If you are fed up with colourful flowers in window boxes why not using cactus? I saw this decoration in Überlingen, a city on Lake Constance with some remarkable old buildings.
For several weeks this bear made me smile while passing the city railway station Gumpendorfer Strasse in Vienna. I wonder who had the splendid idea to put him into the window.
I am always impressed by such details in the architecture of Vienna. I wonder how these element is called? Is this a gable sculpture?
While walking through the Styrian place of Haus, I came across this high-wheeler. Riding this kind of bike seems pretty uncomfortable to me. Have you ever tried such a high wheel? And do you know the term penny-farthing for this kind of bike?
Tonight I am a guest at the Hotel am Konzerthaus invited by 50plus Hotels Österreich. The hotel is very special, it is decorated in the style of Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) and all rooms are filled with reproductions of that period. So I got inspired to have a small walk through Vienna visiting some venues showing works by Klimt.
Do you know this phenomenon: You can only spot things you know they are around you – If you don’t know their existence you’ll overlook them. After many years leaving my train at railway station Meidling the sound of church bells made me aware there is a church next to me. Well, do you see the church?
Nice decorated fanlight seen at a half-timbered house in Celle. I am not sure about the style. It seems to be not much older than 100 years? What do you think?