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Dec. 25th, 2014 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakYuletide squee gets its own post, but first, as is tradition, I want to share the results of our annual traipsing into many a Bamberg church to admire the nativity scenes there. The attention to detail was as wonderful as always. Because how can you resist a Bethlehem basketball player?
You know you cannot.
Some of the churches for the simple yet effective approach, like St. Stephen's, which manages to make figures made of concrete look absolutely endearing:
Others go through not just an incredibly detailed depiction of the nativity scene but actually give us ever changing details through the four weeks of advent. Which Our Lady, also called the Obere Pfarre, does. I was there two weeks ago, and there you could see Mary and Joseph on their way, and the registration in Bethlehem already begun with other citizens:
Yesterday, when we went back to this particular church, it and the nativity scene in question looked like this:
Because Franconian Bethlehem of course is in the wine trade as well:
and into having family dinners
with pork. Let's just say the pork was consumed only by the Greeks living in Palestine at the time:
There's also a life sized nativity scene outside this church, next to the neigbouring house:
At St. Matern's, there is an exhibition of small nativity scenes each year. This time some of the most remarkable were:
Made of one tree's root:
Not showing the nativity itself at all, but the people going there outside:
And Joseph, Mary and child Jesus some years later in Franconian/Palestinian Bethlehem:
Not to be confused with the Maternkirche is St. Martin's:
The only rival nativity scene in elaborate, loving detail, which Our Lady has is St. Carmel's. I mean:
This game they're playing looks vaguely Egyptian to me. Experts?
And Mr. Basketball of Bethlehem again:
Also the angry woman after the thief, there every year but every time in another position:
And lastly, when we were on our way home, we spotted this one in an antiquities shop:
You know you cannot.
Some of the churches for the simple yet effective approach, like St. Stephen's, which manages to make figures made of concrete look absolutely endearing:
Others go through not just an incredibly detailed depiction of the nativity scene but actually give us ever changing details through the four weeks of advent. Which Our Lady, also called the Obere Pfarre, does. I was there two weeks ago, and there you could see Mary and Joseph on their way, and the registration in Bethlehem already begun with other citizens:
Yesterday, when we went back to this particular church, it and the nativity scene in question looked like this:
Because Franconian Bethlehem of course is in the wine trade as well:
and into having family dinners
with pork. Let's just say the pork was consumed only by the Greeks living in Palestine at the time:
There's also a life sized nativity scene outside this church, next to the neigbouring house:
At St. Matern's, there is an exhibition of small nativity scenes each year. This time some of the most remarkable were:
Made of one tree's root:
Not showing the nativity itself at all, but the people going there outside:
And Joseph, Mary and child Jesus some years later in Franconian/Palestinian Bethlehem:
Not to be confused with the Maternkirche is St. Martin's:
The only rival nativity scene in elaborate, loving detail, which Our Lady has is St. Carmel's. I mean:
This game they're playing looks vaguely Egyptian to me. Experts?
And Mr. Basketball of Bethlehem again:
Also the angry woman after the thief, there every year but every time in another position:
And lastly, when we were on our way home, we spotted this one in an antiquities shop:
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Date: 2014-12-26 01:14 am (UTC)I'm crying a bit over the basketball player. That is so awesome. :D
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Date: 2014-12-26 08:23 am (UTC)