Easter Wells of 2026

[selenak]

Mind you, the non-fannish world feels like one long Good Friday for humanity these days, but still: time to share the annual joy of our Franconian Easter Wells. (And bridges.)








Litzendorf makes always for a good start for the combination of well and picturesque church.




Whereas this well is so attractive because of the witty eggs.



Like these, though they're only funny if you speak German (they offer a dictionary of Franconian dialect words vs standard German).



My Agend Parent adores tihe Tiefenpölz well beyond all others, not just because it's pretty but because they offer eatable eggs as well.



The general arrangement remains, but this year they added some saints to their usual eggs.




Then we visited the source of the river Aufseß.



And the bridge of Drosendorf.




I also like the well-church combination of Hollfeld:



And the AP who is much into mill wheels loves these two hares who will insist not to be called bunnies:




The well at Beringersmühle picks up a different theme each year. This year, they encourage blood, bone mark and organ donations:









Obertraubach not only offers a pretty well but pretty goats:







My own personal fave is the Easter Well of Kleingesee, which also picks a different theme for their arrangement each year. They celebrate their 40th anniversary this year and did so via paying homage to some of their most stunning arrangements, like "Fairy Tales", "The Football/Soccer World Cup" and "Forest" (complete with ant hill eggs):
















The largest Easter Well remains Bieberach. For Bieberach, it wasn't even overcrowded this year, mostly because everyone thinks twice and thrice about their petrol for obvious reasons.





On to Ebermannsstadt:





Ebermannsstadt has a second Easter Well celebrating its Rokoko composer:








And finally, reliably beautiful: Heiligenstadt! Wishing everyone a hopefully good couple of holidays:

Comments

[reverancepavane]

As always, thanks for the pretty pictures.

[selenak]

You're very welcome!

[felis]

Happy Easter to you and yours! <3

Also: Happy 20th Anniversary for the Easter Wells Pic Spam? I got curious and clicked on the tag - it looks like 2006 was the first of these. I actually forgot it would be happening this weekend, so seeing your post was a lovely surprise. Goats! :D Love the Egg Dictionary and especially the Egg Anthill, very cool. Wonderful pic spam, as always.

[selenak]

Yowsers, you're right! Now where did those decades go.... it's one of my favourite rituals each year, both visiting them and posting about them.

[vaysh]

Gorgeous pics. Thank you, every year, for giving us a taste of the Easter wells and (ant)hills. ♥

[selenak]

You're very, very welcome!

[trobadora]

Yay! I always look forward to this post, thank you for sharing all your pics!

I adore the Franconian dictionary, that is a complete delight.

[selenak]

You're very welcome, and hey - dictionaries are always a plus. :)

[lilacsigil]

I love seeing the Easter wells! Thank you for posting them every year. The musical Ebermannsstadt ones are great!

[selenak]

It's one of my favourite rituals each year - both visiting and posting.

[itsnotmymind]

Lovely pictures!

[selenak]

Thank you!

[viggorlijah]

yay! I love these - are those hand painted eggshells? The saint ones are so pretty, I am curious if they're little wooden eggs they can reuse or real eggshells. Having goats near such a display is a lot of trust in a goat....

And the blood/bone/organ donation signs at the well made me for a moment go "what, i just throw a kidney in?"

[selenak]

The saint ones are definitely hand painted egg shells. There are some plastic or wooden eggs in the various arrangements, but these tend to be uni colour. Anything hand painted you can be sure to be an actual egg.

[schneefink]

So many eggs! Lovely arrangements. Thanks for the pictures :)

[selenak]

You're very welcome.

[watervole]

I love the little anthill!

and the arches of eggs on the bridge.

[selenak]

The inventiveness each year stuns me in the best way anew.

[redfiona99]

I'm always amazed at the effort that goes into them (I think the ant eggs are my favourite)

[cahn]

Easter wells yay! I love seeing this post every year!

I think my favorite is the music eggs. I mean, predictable me is predictable, but there's something about the black and white that's very cool. But also the egg with the backs of the two bunnies is very cute!