Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week is photos with subjects starting with the letters B and W.
Water Bottle – macro
Best dessert!! 🙂
Bunny
Windows
Water
Wisdom (?)
Bear
CB&WPC: Mind Your B’s and W’s!
Monday Window: Dohany St. Synagogue
The Dohany St. Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue, in Budapest, Hungary, is the largest synagogue in Europe and the 4th largest in the world. It can accommodate close to 3,000 worshippers.
The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, incorporating decoration based on Islamic models from North Africa and la Alhambra in Granada, Spain. The Viennese architect reasoned that no distinctive Jewish style of architecture could be identified, so he used elements from the people most closely related to the Israelites, most particularly the Arabs.
The synagogue constituted the border of the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, and the complex includes the Jewish Museum, Heroes’ Temple, the graveyard and Holocaust Memorial.
The Dohany St. Synagogue is the center of the Reform Jewish denomination in Budapest. From there, you can take a walking tour of the Jewish Quarter, an interesting historic area in the Pest part of the city.
Posted for Ludwig’s Monday Window photo challenge.
Information obtained from Wikipedia.
Monday Windows: Germany
I haven’t been many places lately, for obvious reasons, so most of my photography the last several months has been of nature. So I dipped back into my archives of our trip to Europe last year to find some interesting specimens for Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge this week. Here are some windows in Wurzburg and Bamberg, Germany.
Monday Window: Windows With Grates
For Ludwig’s Monday Window Challenge, I am looking back at a cruise we took to the Panama Canal, stopping at several Central American Pacific ports on the way back. All these windows have grates. One of them, however, was taken in Jerusalem last year.
León, Nicaragua
Antigua, Guatemala
The purple sashes were there because it was Holy Week.
Actually, I think these windows have shutters, not grates.
Todos Santos, Mexico
Jerusalem, Israel
Thursday Doors: A Walk Through Schärding, Austria
On the 4th of July, the day we spent the morning in Passau, Germany, we opted for an afternoon tour to the small town of Schärding, Austria (population approx. 5,000). Passau and Schärding are essentially border towns. We even crossed a bridge on the Inn River that had a small metal plaque in the middle with D (Deutschland – Germany) on one side and Ö (Österreich – Austria) on the other!
The town of Schärding is a major port on the Inn River which is the dividing line between Bavaria in Germany and the Austrian state of Upper Austria.
The Bavarian family Wittelsbach owned the town until 1779. In the Middle Ages, due to its location, Schärding became a center of trade, particularly for salt, timber, ores, wine, silk, glass, grain, textiles and livestock. Originally the town was fortified; sections of the wall remain, but the castle that was originally there is no longer.
Schärding’s most beautiful feature is its central square with its rows of colorful, gabled buildings. The buildings are color coded so that illiterate people in past centuries would know what the building was used for. For example, the town hall (Rathaus) was yellow, and pharmacies were green. Nowadays, next to the Rathaus, the green building is a charming hotel, Hotel Stiegenwirt.
The town’s skyline is dominated by St. George Church. It is Roman Catholic; more than 80% of the town’s residents identify themselves as Roman Catholic.
When I was not attending a workshop to make herbal salt (I ended up not keeping it – the salt content was way too high for me!), I joined Dale to explore the streets of the town.
Two interesting clocks!
Schärding’s coat of arms is painted on the side of a building.
Historically, Schärding’s population suffered an epidemic of the plague. A plague pole was erected when the epidemic was over, to thank the Virgin Mary for saving people from the plague.
There is a statue to St. Christopher, the patron saint of travelers, in the center of a fountain. The fountain is hard to see in this photo because it was surrounded by construction zone fences.
Looking out toward the river from Durchgang Wasstertor.
I don’t know what these masks were for, but they look like instruments of torture!
There was also this display of possibly religious relics, near St. George Church.
And now…Schärding doors!
Posted for Norm’s Thursday Doors 1/16/20.
Some historical information obtained from Wikipedia’s article on Schärding.
Monday Window: Historic Budapest
On July 8, 2019, we visited Budapest, Hungary.
Budapest is really two cities – Buda on the west side of the Danube and Pest on the east side. These photos were all taken in the historic district of Buda, during a walking tour.
Posted for Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge, 12/9/19.
Monday Window: St. Sebald Church
This week for Ludwig’s Monday Window, I feature the windows of St. Sebald’s Church in Nuremburg, Germany.
Monday Window: Windows of Medieval Regensburg
For Ludwig’s Monday Window, I feature here some of the interesting windows in Regensburg, Germany, photographed during a walking tour of the medieval center. To see more, go to my earlier post on Regensburg here.
Monday Window: Bamberg, Germany
A previous post featured the doors of Bamberg during a walking tour. Here are some windows in that charming city.
Schlenkerla Brewery:
Neue Residenz (former palace of ruling prince-bishops):
Town Hall (Rathaus) with murals painted on the outside walls – the windows are not particularly interesting but the painting around them is:
See more windows around the world at Ludwig’s Monday Window 11/4/19.
Monday Windows: Cruising Amsterdam
For Ludwig’s Monday Window challenge, these are some photos taken on a private boat cruise through the canals and rivers of Amsterdam.
