Half-Timber Town

Sunrise

We visited Happenheim today. It has a lot of medieval half-timber buildings.

A piece of a Roman road with medieval ballards

The library was open

Not Even!

Cat on a hot clay roof

A witch, also

Rathaus

The church from the castle

Side-view panorama of the church

Dusk

Bedtime

53 thoughts on “Half-Timber Town

    • “Non Statio” However, I like the following form of No Parking in Italian: Parcheggio vietato! Thanks, Geoff.

  1. A beautiful series, Tim. Last weekend, I visited a friend’s home, and we talked about the pine trees on their property, and they had an old Douglas Fir, which their great-grandfather planted around the 1930s, that they got from an American. They plant firs when the opportunity comes – and your photos have that beautiful feel of nature, and people who love to have it around them.

    • There are so many trees in Germany that the old cliché, “You can’t see the forest for the trees!” rings true. Douglas Firs are amazing in their beauty, size, and longevity. In southern Germany, where I am near Kaiserslautern, there is the Palatinate Forest / Pfälzerwald, which is mostly spruce and fir. Thanks, Randall.

  2. Well, I can safely say I will never go to that place, those building lines would set my OCD through the roof to continue the metaphor ha. I like the mini Stonehenge.

    • You would go nuts. So many buildings leaning one way or the other. I wonder if the locals feel off-center standing on even ground. Thanks, Brian.

        • A few men were burned at the stake accused of being witches and heretics, but while there were various methods for executing men, women were, with only a few exceptions, burned at the stake. Being burned at the stake is one of the cruelest and most painful methods of execution.

          • Some of them were drowned as well. Gay men were also killed, but they murdered the women to get their belongings. Most were widows of healers. I feel something like that could happen again with the idiot in charge.

  3. What a cracking looking town. It’s good to see medieval towns that weren’t destroyed in the war. Places that are reconstructed never seem the same.

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