(click to enlarge)Location: Heidelberg, a week ago just before Christmas. That's iced fog, not snow.
12/31/2007
Ice
(click to enlarge)Location: Heidelberg, a week ago just before Christmas. That's iced fog, not snow.
12/30/2007
Coffee Bean?
(click to enlarge)Don't really need to put much comment, do i? The shape lends itself to multiple interpretations quite well...
Location: Heidelberg-Bergheim; the shop is a bakery that also sells coffee.
Park Island
(click to enlarge)Location: City Park, Park Island, Ludwigshafen. View to the south, towards the comparably small port area of Ludwigshafen.
Notes: Not the entire Island is part of the Park, actually - only like half of it. It's an artificial island btw, separated since 1893 by a small harbor canal from the rest of Ludwigshafen, and since 1968 again connected to the city by a dam at its southern end. The park itself was created in 1900, and rearranged in 1947-51 after heavy bombing damage. Its total area is 28 hectar (about 70 acre), mostly consisting of forest with small paths leading all over it. The park itself hugs the western shore of the island along the Rhine river, in a sorta of crescent moon shape to a maximum depth of 100m from the river, while the overall island is in a semi-circle shape, with the rest of it mostly covered with upscale housing. A streetcar rail line ends just across a bridge from the island, making it relatively easily reachable by public transport.
Ticket Info
Awesome brochure available from the local Rhine-Neckar Area Public Transport thingy for "international visitors". In English, French and - get this - Japanese. Explains how to get a public transport ticket, in particular for tourists ^^;Since blogger doesn't seem to support oversized images, large version is linked here.
12/29/2007
12/25/2007
Apothecary
(click to enlarge)Location: Former monestary at Lorsch; a recreation of the pharmaceutical garden of the original monks.
Lots of power
(click to enlarge)Location: South of Biblis, power lines leading away from the nuclear plant there.
Industrial
(click to enlarge)Location: Rhine river, Worms. Right shore is in Hessen state, left side in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Modified
(click to enlarge)Location: Dossenwald forest near Mannheim-Rheinau
Notes: This forest was planted over 300 years ago on top of a wandering sand dune stemming from the last ice age, to prevent sand storms originating from this dune back then. Sorta awesome, isn't it?
Shadow
(click to enlarge)Location: Near the Alteichwald Settlement belonging to Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld.
Rusting
(click to enlarge)Location: near Osterburken, in "Badish Siberia" (the eastern-most part of Baden...)
Interrupted
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Location: Frankfurt central railway station at night
Notes: About 1,500 people waiting for trains to resume the next morning after a hurricane prompted any and all operations to cease overnight.
Location: Frankfurt central railway station at night
Notes: About 1,500 people waiting for trains to resume the next morning after a hurricane prompted any and all operations to cease overnight.
Reclaimed
(click to enlarge)Location: Kühkopf Island, a nature protection zone surrounded by the Rhine; formerly an agricultural area.
12/24/2007
Fenced In
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Location: The redesigned inner yard of Darmstadt University's Piloty Building
Location: The redesigned inner yard of Darmstadt University's Piloty Building
Virtually Untouched
(click to enlarge)Location: Near Riedstadt-Crumstadt, in a nature protection zone simply called "Reed".
12/23/2007
Layers
(click to animate!)Location: Ladenburg, downtown archaeological dig.
Notes: A series of plates depicting the various layers of ground and the cultural remains as they were found in this place. Gotta love the last one.
Manmade
(click to enlarge)Location: east of Weinheim, a porphyry mine slowly, but surely eating away at the Wachenberg mountain.
In the distance...
(click to enlarge)Location: From the hill range in Heidelberg, looking towards the Phillipsburg nuclear plant about 20 km southwest.
Emptied
(click to enlarge)Location: Mannheim-Käfertal lock on the Neckar side-canal, under repairs and hence without water.
Tucked Away
(click to enlarge)Location: Lampertheim industrial zone
Notes: a former storage lake of a local chemical company, now slowly being filled up with earth.
A5 Highway
(click to enlarge)Location: Near Pfungstadt exit.
Notes: I like the composition. Forest, the highway stretching through it, heavy traffic on it... and the light hint of a social conflict as they drive by some people slaving away harvesting asparagus.
Awesome Bird
(click to enlarge)Location: Heidelberg-Wieblingen, on the old Neckar river, just outside the FFH EU nature protection zone
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