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Houses (gables & doors) in my hometown's pedestrian area

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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:13 pm
The so-called "town palais": a couple of kings, dukes etc. stayed there over the centuries

http://i9.tinypic.com/4852srk.jpg

A fountain and some 3rd-graders on a guided tour .... and on the extreme right: Café Peters, where the get the best cakes, cookies, truffels countrywide
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:18 pm
You can move hands, feet of those figures, who are all related to the town's history.

In the building is the registry office (I got married there [twice]), the fraction of the Green party in the town parliament and a touristic board, I think

http://i9.tinypic.com/4hm3hxf.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:22 pm
The owners of the café built the door from the (demolished) house their ancestors came from in this one


http://i14.tinypic.com/2vnmkn4.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:28 pm
Looking at the market chucrh

http://i12.tinypic.com/3zvuut0.jpg


and the townhall


http://i14.tinypic.com/2py9auw.jpg

I'm nearly at the end of this tour.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:29 pm
What is behind those airy lattice things at the top of so many of these doors? There doesn't seem to be glass (though maybe there is). Is there some sort of an entranceway, with another substantial door behind it?
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:46 pm
I'd like to post the one or other house here later.

Like these two, which are only a few steps away, on one of the waters running through the town (all connected to and sourced by the Lippe river)

http://i11.tinypic.com/47b53ps.jpg

http://i12.tinypic.com/307m0k5.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:47 pm
http://i3.tinypic.com/4ih2ixd.jpg

http://i3.tinypic.com/2ylab89.jpg

Thanks so far, and: stay tuned :wink:
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:48 pm
sozobe wrote:
What is behind those airy lattice things at the top of so many of these doors? There doesn't seem to be glass (though maybe there is). Is there some sort of an entranceway, with another substantial door behind it?


Glass. Ornamental windows.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:51 pm
McTag wrote:


Verryy interesting.....)

BM


Yes, I've now has a good look around and these are very good pictures, Walter.

The light is excellent, also. You must have had a very good day for your photography.

Thank you for a souvenir of "a small town in Germany". It is good that so many old buildings are preserved and used, even with a few appropriate "change of use" arrangements.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:53 pm
Walter Hinteler wrote:

Glass. Ornamental windows.


Originally, in the real farmhouses, this was a 'door window' for ventilation: the animal stables were exactly behind the entrance doors, to the left and right.
(Those 'windows' were left open even when the animals were kept elsewhwere, later, in the 50's what I remeber vividly: the swallows flew in and out by them.)
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:54 pm
McTag wrote:
The light is excellent, also. You must have had a very good day for your photography.


Yep, that's why I drove there this morning.
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McTag
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 02:57 pm
The light was good here too. You could have taken a great picture of Sam's Chop House. :wink:
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 27 Mar, 2007 04:00 pm
walter :
thanks for posting the pictures !
i noticed "with pleasure" that you gave favourable mention to the "konditorei" Laughing
when we visited in germany and austria i always took a few pictures inside the "konditorei" (after asking for permission) . the staff were always pleased to allow me to take pictures - particularly when i asked them to be in picture ! it usually took a little coaxing to get them into the picture - "oh , no ; you wouldn't want me in the picture ! really ? " .
hbg
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 28 Mar, 2007 03:40 am
Great pictures Walter thanks. I've been to Germany. Some of it looks remarkably familiar. Kaffee und Kuchen. Yes please.
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 29 Mar, 2007 12:47 pm
My pictures can't hold a candle to yours, Walter, but one of your pictures reminded me of a building in my town.

Here's yours:

http://i3.tinypic.com/29ca0wy.jpg


Here's mine:


http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/swimpy12/DSC00307.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 29 Mar, 2007 12:52 pm
Well, it's certainly very similar - and I could imagine more attractive than here (we don't have a steamboat, here, too Laughing ).
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 29 Mar, 2007 01:09 pm
Actually, it's not in a very nice part of town. The buildings in that area are from the Victorian era and most are storefronts now. That building houses a photography studio.

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/swimpy12/DSC00304.jpg

Here's the front:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e383/swimpy12/DSC00305.jpg
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Swimpy
 
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Reply Thu 29 Mar, 2007 01:10 pm
My pictures are kind of dark. It's a very gray day today.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 1 Apr, 2007 06:37 am
So I had to bring Mrs. walter to the coach earlier today .... and thought, why not taking some new photos?

http://i13.tinypic.com/349a1zk.jpg
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sun 1 Apr, 2007 06:38 am
http://i9.tinypic.com/2rxvb4m.jpg
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