Apr 26
Die Wurmlinger Kapelle im April 2026(von der Unterjesinger Sonnenhalde aus fotografiert geht der Blick Richtung Alb nach Süden,die Sonne stand schon recht tief im Westen)
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Die Wurmlinger Kapelle im April 2026(von der Unterjesinger Sonnenhalde aus fotografiert geht der Blick Richtung Alb nach Süden,die Sonne stand schon recht tief im Westen)
Wurmlinger Kapelle und Glockenturm der Altstadt Kapelle Rottenburg am neckar
Kein Werbefoto,der "Müll"wurde nach dem Besteigen des Aussichtsturm mitgenommen und dem Pfandautomaten zugeführt .Die Aussicht geht Richtung Reutlingen,Pfullingen,Achalm und Albtrauf..
OK, OK, I'm used to Swabians being the butt of, er, affectionate teasing by Germans, but really? All seven of them stepped on the same rake?
Von einem hölzernen Aussichtsturm
Alteburg, Kaepfle
Hinten rechts sieht man noch den Plettenberg ( ca.1000 m n.n)
Burg Hohenzollern
Die sieben Schwaben
Auf Ofentür von Backhaus dargestellt
Von unterhalb des Märchen See
Über den Weinberg und Wendelsheim,Rottenburg
Rammert ,Weiler Burg(590 m u.N.N.)zum Albtrauf hin fotografiert
An expected journey, day 11
On 26 May 2025, I embarked on a month-long roundtrip through Central and Southern Germany that will take me to seven cities over 26 days.
I spent much of yesterday on trains as I relocated within Bavaria from Augsburg to Deggendorf, with a short stopover in Munich. (I didn't see anything of Munich, though, other than the inside of its central station.)
Since I was meeting friends for beer (or beers, rather, let's be honest - bless the Bavarian beer-brewing tradition! 😁) last night, I decided to dedicate this recap to a different kind of content.
First and belated, I wish to share a venue which I came across in Augsburg: the so-called "peace monument" ("Friedensdenkmal") by famed 19th-century sculptor Caspar von Zumbusch. Let's look at it from all sides:
"Aus Kampfes Nacht"...
..."stieg auf mit Macht"...
..."der Sonne gleich"...
..."das Deutsche Reich"
The inscription translates as:
"From night's battle Rose with might Like the sun The German Empire"
From what I read online, this statue displays a Trojan warrior who is sheathing his sword while putting his foot in triumph on a dismembered French soldier.
Why French? Because unlike many other memorials dedicated to opponents of Nazi oppression or fallen soldiers of the First World War, this statue, unveiled in 1876, commemorates the war of 1870/71 in which Prussia overcame France and afterwards created the German Reich under Prussian supremacy.
Some letters have been forcibly removed, but the central message is that the city of Augsburg commissioned this statue in memory of those who fell in the war of 1870/71 that united the German Empire.
It is questionable whether a dead enemy soldier, put under foot and with his head and limbs cut off, is a suitable symbol for a peace memorial, but perhaps people perceived this sort of message differently 150 years ago when society was much more militarized.
At any rate, statues like this one are rare, as the Wars of German Unification ("Deutsche Einigungskriege", fought by Prussia between 1864 and 1871 against Denmark, then Austria, finally France) have been mostly forgotten, or rather overshadowed by the two World Wars and the German Unification in 1989/90.
A detailed list of Bavarian soldiers who fought against the French in 1870/71.
Moving on to something different altogether, these are the presents I brought for the friends I was meeting last night. The first is a Fantasy Dragon...
... more cuddly than terrifying, really...
... and the other is a bear in the woods...
... like literally in the woods 😉
Some people might find it silly to spend money on such gifts, especially between adults, but I have never been convinced that we outgrow something we enjoy.
I have seen men in their sixties construct model trains, women in their forties play with dolls, and people of all ages build entire worlds out of LEGO. Why would we change? Why would our interests? As German author Erich Kästner once wrote:
Only someone who grows up, yet remains a child, is a human being.