Easterly Pic Spam
Apr. 20th, 2019 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakI wish you peaceful, joyful holidays, be they Easter or Pesach, and start my annual Easter Wells pic spam with the heroes of the hour....
FIREBUNNIES!
Seriously though, I am in love with the well in Kleingesee. Last year's theme was "Fairy Tales", the year before that it was "Beer". This year, they very timely decided to praise firemen (and -women), and while this is only logical given the local firepeople are providing the location of the well in question, the firebunnies totally stole my heart. I mean:
You'd love him, too.
Two more overviews:
The saint on top of the well is St. Florian, Patron of firemen. Now check out the details:
There were of course other impressive efforts as well. Old Faitfull, aka the well at Tiefenpölz, greeted us at the start of Franconian Switzerland as ever:
This year with rhymed sayings about animals as its theme:
Not everyone has a big space to decorate their well, but any bit of green on the road will do the job, and the result can be very pretty indeed:
Some villages also go to the effort of having not just one but two Easter Wells, like Ebermannsstadt, which has the big one:
And the onew where they honor a baroque composer of the town, Melchior:
Beringersmühle this year decorated its well according to the main leisure activities available in this area - crowned by Firebunnies as well, just like in Kleingesees. The other parts of the well are devoted to fishing, rowing, and, well, you'll see:
More detailed:
Meanwhile, Obertrubach never changes:
Nor does Gößweinstein:
But now at last it's time for the biggest easter well of them all, in Biberach:
More detailed:
Not a well, but a bridge, and I do love this Easter bridge in Drosenfeld:
However, visiting Franconian Switzerland and its Easter Wells wasn't all I did on Good Friday. Early in the morning, I also took part in the Good Friday procession, which means you walk up the Bamberg hills and see the city lying beneath you like this:
And once you've reached the Altenburg, the highest point of the Bamberg area, you see the sun rise:
From the Altenburg, it's down one hill and up another, as the last but one station is at a place called Rothof.
It may not be Golgatha, but let me tell you, we were a bit short of breath by the time we were up there...
And with this, I bid you adieu for the Easter Weekend.
FIREBUNNIES!
Seriously though, I am in love with the well in Kleingesee. Last year's theme was "Fairy Tales", the year before that it was "Beer". This year, they very timely decided to praise firemen (and -women), and while this is only logical given the local firepeople are providing the location of the well in question, the firebunnies totally stole my heart. I mean:
You'd love him, too.
Two more overviews:
The saint on top of the well is St. Florian, Patron of firemen. Now check out the details:
There were of course other impressive efforts as well. Old Faitfull, aka the well at Tiefenpölz, greeted us at the start of Franconian Switzerland as ever:
This year with rhymed sayings about animals as its theme:
Not everyone has a big space to decorate their well, but any bit of green on the road will do the job, and the result can be very pretty indeed:
Some villages also go to the effort of having not just one but two Easter Wells, like Ebermannsstadt, which has the big one:
And the onew where they honor a baroque composer of the town, Melchior:
Beringersmühle this year decorated its well according to the main leisure activities available in this area - crowned by Firebunnies as well, just like in Kleingesees. The other parts of the well are devoted to fishing, rowing, and, well, you'll see:
More detailed:
Meanwhile, Obertrubach never changes:
Nor does Gößweinstein:
But now at last it's time for the biggest easter well of them all, in Biberach:
More detailed:
Not a well, but a bridge, and I do love this Easter bridge in Drosenfeld:
However, visiting Franconian Switzerland and its Easter Wells wasn't all I did on Good Friday. Early in the morning, I also took part in the Good Friday procession, which means you walk up the Bamberg hills and see the city lying beneath you like this:
And once you've reached the Altenburg, the highest point of the Bamberg area, you see the sun rise:
From the Altenburg, it's down one hill and up another, as the last but one station is at a place called Rothof.
It may not be Golgatha, but let me tell you, we were a bit short of breath by the time we were up there...
And with this, I bid you adieu for the Easter Weekend.
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