Pumpkins near Steinach/Kürbisse bei Steinach
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Red window/Rotes Fenster
This is fun.
But what’s the story here?
Kriminalmuseum Fürth
On the way back from the sewage plant, I came past the new Kriminalmuseum, a sort of police museum under the Rathaus which opened this week but is only generally open at the weekend.
There are quite a number of rooms, on history, things confiscated by the customs, police organization and buildings, drugs, forgery, right-wing extremism (with various flags and emblems), DNA, fingerprints, forbidden weapons, the courts and so on.
The picture I took seems to be the most popular one, looking at the other images online.
Sewage plant open day/Tag der offenen Kläranlage
Having got my free poster (see recent entry), a brochure and some pens, I had to consider attending the event.
The weekend was supposed to be wet, but it wasn’t raining today and there was even some sun when I was on the viewing platform on top of the digestion tower (Faulturm).
It was supposed to be a great view. I have seen Fürth from several towers and the Klinikum and the Solarberg, but this was the view that showed to best effect the way the two multistorey blocks ruin the skyline (Sparkasse and Bahnhof).
There were too many trees, or they were too leafy, to see Nuremberg Castle.
Here are the digestion towers:
World Cup
Tesco gearing up for the World Cup:
Konstantin found a T-shirt with a 1966 theme and some German Bratwurst crisps.
Elephants/Elefanten
LATER NOTE: diamond geezer has a good write-up.
Here are three in Embankment Gardens, still waiting to be distributed (they must be the Brown, Cameron and Clegg three named by diamond geezer:
and here’s a nice jewelled one in Coutts:
Slow blogging/Viele Pausen
There’s probably no point in saying that blogging may be slow in the next few weeks, since it has also been slow in the last few weeks.
I have added a photo to the entry where you can buy the Pope for your train set, and another to the entry with the ad for a Fürth lawyer.
It seems to me that blogging is slowing down. Some German weblogs, meanwhile, seem to be mutating into food blogs when they weren’t before. This is not a food blog, so I won’t give the recipes for recent successes – sucking pig’s head before and after, and coconut pyramids:
Albrecht Dürer’s grave/Johannesfriedhof Nürnberg
The first time I came here, it was winter.
Now at last I have worked out how to tell where the famous tombs are:
Fortunately Google books helps decipher this (translation from Albrecht Dürer. A Guide to Research, by Jane Campbell Hutchison:
Hier ruhe Künstlerfürst
Du mehr als grosser Mann!
In Vielkunst hat es dir
noch keiner gleich getan.
Die Erd war ausgemalt
der Himmel dich jetzt hat;
du malest heilig nun
dort an der Gottestatt
Die Bau- Bild- und Malerkunst
Die nennen dich Patron
und setzen dir nun auf
im Tod die Lorbeerkron.
Rest here, oh artist prince
Thou more than worthy man!
In mastering all arts
None equalled thee.
Thy work on earth complete
In heaven is thy home;
Thou paintest, saintly now,
Beside God’s sacred throne,
The builders, sculptors, painters
Call thee Patron (saint)
In death they now award thee
The (artist’s) laurel crown.
Vixit Germaniae suae Decus
ALBERTUS DURERUS
Artium Lumen, Sol Artificium
Urbis Patr. Nor. Ornamentum
Pictor, Chalcographus, Sculptor
Sine Exemplo, quia Omniscius
Dignus Inventus Exteris,
Quem imitandum censerent.
Magnes Magnatum, Cos ingeniorum
Post Sesqui Seculi Requiem
Qui Parem non habuit
Solus Heic cubae jubetur
Tu flores sparge Viator.
A.R.S. MDCLXXXI
J. De S.
The glory of Germany is dead.
ALBERTUS DURERUS
Light of the arts, Sun of the artists
Ornament of Noris, his native twn,
Painter, Graphic artist, Sculptor
Without precedent because ominiscient,
Found worthy by foreigners who
Recommend to imitate him.
Magnet of Magnates, grindstone for talents,
After one hundred fifty years
No one having been equal to him
He must repose here alone.
Traveller, strew flowers.
In the year of Salvation 1681
J.D.S.
I didn’t strew any flowers because there were more than enough there anyway.
Here’s the text of this one, in case anyone is searching for it:
Resurgam
Ann Mary
Wife of Edward Dunscomb,
New York
Republic United States N.A.
12. Nov. 1842
16. Mar. 1851. Nürnberg Bayern.
Apalachicola Ann Mary Seon
Daughter Edward,
and Ann Mary Dunscomb
12. Apr. 1842. Brooklyn New York
20 Mar. 184. Halle an der Saale Preussen
Lucas 18, 16 (‘Let the litte children come to me’)
Thermal baths/Therme-Schwimmbad
Diese Krücken stammen von Gästen, welche durch das besonders wirksame Heil-Thermalwasser gesund wurden.
Gerne nehmen wir auch Ihre guten Erfahrungen entgegen.
Sie baden in einer eigens niedergebrachten fluoridhaltigen Natrium-Calzium-Sulfat-Chlorid-Therme in staatlich anerkanntem Heilwasser!
Apologies for infrequent posting. Sometimes my time is taken up with considerations of my health. Mind you, I have not got any crutches to give them. I could offer my Nordic walking poles, but I’m not sure what kind of message that would send.
(Btw, this is not Fürthermare)
Kirchweih
Kirchweih begins. It is close to St. Michael’s Day (September 29, a day before St. Jerome)
