Just Huge

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Location: Mannheim.

Visible here are the socalled "Neckar Skyscrapers", also called "Neckar Shore North Buildings". Three towers, each 30 levels, all built on a single base building about five levels high - with a large part of those used as parking garages. There's also a vocational school center along with a public library in that building. No idea how many people live in there - rough estimate: around 5,000.

At the third level of the base building, a bridge connects across the Neckar to the Collini Center, which has another two similar towers - one residential (with 1,300 people living in there), the other slightly smaller one for office space.

Second Level

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Location: Mannheim-Handelshafen multi-level station. The "intermediate level" I talked about. The bridge above has the tram station on it. There's a street and a parking lot below this "intermediate level".

Tram Ride #2

Location: Ludwigshafen.

Riding tram line 12 from underground station Ludwigshafen City Hall to semi-underground station Hemshofstraße.

Tram Ride

Location: Ludwigshafen

Riding tram line 10 from Sternstraße to the underground tram station at Ludwigshafen Central Station

Weird statue

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Location: Worms. Google says it's a statue of Hagen from the old German Nibelungen saga, depicting him as he throws the Nibelungen treasure into the Rhine (...which is where the statue is). Erected in 1905. See also this link.

Old Stuff

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Location: Worms Cathedral. Built 1130 to 1181 - and that was the third cathedral in the same place, with the first one built some 500 years earlier.

Probably the most important church for the Christian-Protestant world, as this is where Luther officially split from the Catholic church.

Politics...

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Location: Mannheim-Feudenheim. I'm a bit too lazy to explain the connotation, Germans will understand it :3

And now for something completely different

Maultaschen
(about 2 lbs of them, in my family's serving form)

Yet Another Bridge

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Location: Mannheim-Feudenheim, shot from "Mulberry Island". It's actually a highway (B38a), not a bridge.

Depot

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Location: Tram depot, Edingen. Yes, i was sitting on the curb for this pic, hence the angle.

Older Than Me

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Location: Ludwigshafen, inside a 35-year-old Gt8 streetcar. With awesome artificial leather seat covers, and fake wood panels!

February Clouds

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Location: Heidelberg.

Walking Wool

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Location: Hesseneck-Kailbach.

Wine

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Location: Vineyard near Freinsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate. Wine is pretty big business in that area.

Taken last week, so... yeah, it looks a bit more bleak now than in summer.

Boring

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Location: ... wouldn't you want to know? View from my office window. Pretty boring, if you ask me.

Winter Shot

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Location: Karlsruhe, during a demonstration January last year (the German Supreme Court is in that city).

Just so we don't have only green summer pics in here lol.

Do you have those over there?

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Location: Darmstadt. That's a brothel. One with afaik pretty good business. 'nuff said.

Along the hills...

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Location: Bit blurry. Another pic taken while driving, on the B535. Houses on the hills in the background are two suburbs of Heidelberg, Emmertsgrund and Boxberg, with some 20,000 ppl living up there. Oh, and they got lots of unused appartments up there, since ... ermm, it's not exactly the best neighborhood to live in.

...but is it art?

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Location: Heidelberg-Königstuhl. Some kind of... statue... in the forest up there. Yes, the trash is in that globe intentionally.

That Path #3

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Location: Edingen. That path also runs through Edingen's "harbour area", which consists of... right, exactly what you see here. A single boom thingy to transfer grain onto a docked ship. Then again, i think that factory (that does... something with grain) is pretty much the only industry in the village.

That Path #2

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Location: Edingen. Bit tighter in this place, so they installed that girder. No biking allowed on this path btw, even though no one seems to care about that ^^;

That Path

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Location: Edingen. River to the left is the Neckar, to the right is the village.

Run Away!

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Location: Edingen-Neckarhausen, last March, after a really heavy downpour. Ducks seemed to have enjoyed it though.

Postcard Scene #2

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Location: Birkenau, at the western edge of the Odenwald Mountain Range, exactly one year ago.

Postcard Scene

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Location: Hirschhorn, last July. Popular minor tourist site.