Beautiful Schwäbisch Hall
May. 18th, 2014 07:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakSchwäbisch Hall, the exceedingly pretty town where I spent the last few days at a conference, does demand a pic spam. I mean, have an overview of the town as seen just a few steps from the railway station:
Schwäbisch Hall was a town that got rich due to its salt mines. It also has a river of its own, the Stocher, which makes for great walks (and views) on the riverbanks looking up to the town:
This is the central square, the market place, with an actual market (only going on on Saturday mornings:
This is how it looks the rest of the week:
Except in summer, when there's theatre going on. With the stage being the stairs of St. Michael's, I kid you not. Those are some awesome stairs, too.
The other side of the square with the city hall, just for balance:
They have another theatre, too. An ambitious Shakespearean rebuild the Globe on the banks of the Stocher instead of the Thames:
That one is open only in summer, too, which is why I couldn't go inside, alas, but on photos it does look like the actual Globe in London. Mind you, I did see costume - at the reception for the conference members which took place in the city hall, where some citizens showed up in the traditional costume of the salt miners:
Walking through some streets of Schwäbisch Hall:
And finally, there is the Comburg. Which used to be a monastery until secularisation, and nowadays houses an academy for teachers. There is a lovely walk from the town to the Comburg along the banks of the Stocher, until you see this:
Have a close-up:
Inside the keep, there is a baroque church (or rather one which used to be Romanic until it got a baroque do-over:
The most special thing inside is not the baroque equipment, though. It's the thousand-years-old gigantic chandelier which is one of only three still in existence in Germany (the other two are in Aachen aka Aix-la-Chapelle and in Hildesheim).
Have a detail from the chandelier:
And a last look at the Comburg from the riverbank before you say farewell to Schwäbisch Hall:
Schwäbisch Hall was a town that got rich due to its salt mines. It also has a river of its own, the Stocher, which makes for great walks (and views) on the riverbanks looking up to the town:
This is the central square, the market place, with an actual market (only going on on Saturday mornings:
This is how it looks the rest of the week:
Except in summer, when there's theatre going on. With the stage being the stairs of St. Michael's, I kid you not. Those are some awesome stairs, too.
The other side of the square with the city hall, just for balance:
They have another theatre, too. An ambitious Shakespearean rebuild the Globe on the banks of the Stocher instead of the Thames:
That one is open only in summer, too, which is why I couldn't go inside, alas, but on photos it does look like the actual Globe in London. Mind you, I did see costume - at the reception for the conference members which took place in the city hall, where some citizens showed up in the traditional costume of the salt miners:
Walking through some streets of Schwäbisch Hall:
And finally, there is the Comburg. Which used to be a monastery until secularisation, and nowadays houses an academy for teachers. There is a lovely walk from the town to the Comburg along the banks of the Stocher, until you see this:
Have a close-up:
Inside the keep, there is a baroque church (or rather one which used to be Romanic until it got a baroque do-over:
The most special thing inside is not the baroque equipment, though. It's the thousand-years-old gigantic chandelier which is one of only three still in existence in Germany (the other two are in Aachen aka Aix-la-Chapelle and in Hildesheim).
Have a detail from the chandelier:
And a last look at the Comburg from the riverbank before you say farewell to Schwäbisch Hall:
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Date: 2014-05-18 05:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-18 06:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-05-18 08:02 am (UTC)I note they didn't even leave enough space for shutters on some of them.
also, are the steep pitched roofs to deal with particular weather conditions, or just a German fashion, or a way of having more storage space?
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Date: 2014-05-25 10:17 pm (UTC)But what really got me is the chandelier!! It's a shame it's not in a black room by itself, because I would love to see all the details properly.
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Date: 2014-05-26 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-02 12:05 am (UTC)