Please click on image for a better view “Many miles away there’s a shadow on the door of a cottage …” Walter Scott #65 Engelswisch in Lubeck, Germany. Two more from Lubeck – on Dr. Juluis Leber Strasse and on Beckergrube .. Norm’s Thursday Doors Continue reading Door/16 – Lubeck
Please click on any image for a larger view This is the door of the Heiligen Geist Hospital – Hospital of the Holy Spirit – in the centre of the Old Town in Lübeck. The building is one of Europe’s oldest social institutions. Built in the decade between 1276 and 1286, it has barely been altered through the centuries. It was designed to be a home for … Continue reading Door/13 – Heiligen Geist
This door leads to the interior of one of the oldest brick Gothic buildings in the Old Town in Lubeck, Germany. The roof of the Kranenkonvent has been dated to the year 1283. Originally a convent, it was modified several times. After the Reformation and until 1846 it was an alms house; then an infirmary. By 1920 it was a residence for the elderly and since 1966 it … Continue reading Door/4 – 22 Kleine Burgstrasse
Konigstrasse, Lubeck Weekly Photo Challenge: Door Continue reading Door/3
Cee’s black and white challenge: Circles and curves Continue reading Black and white: Circles and Curves
Ailsa’s travel theme is: Round Continue reading Round and Round We Go
I went with an architectural theme for Ailsa’s Travel Theme this week, which is Pink. Continue reading In the Pink
If we are doing what we love to do … “I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.” – Henry Miller Lubeck, Germany Ese’s shoot and quote is: Alive Continue reading Visual Quotation 45: Alive 2
I’m taking a different tack this time. The actual letter will be found somewhere in the photo, part of the design and composition itself, not within any printed words that may also be found in the photo. Taken in Lubeck, Germany Frizztext’s A-Z challenge For my other entries to this challenge see Frizztext A-Z challenge in my tag cloud on my home page. Continue reading A-Z Challenge: D
One of the things that Lübeck in northern Germany is noted for are the many walkways, or gang, as in Hellgrüner Gang and Dunkelgrüner Gang, that lead to hidden höfe, or courtyards. This inauspicious doorway off of Engelswisch …
leads to this charming höfe …
Lübeck is very old and these hidden oases are the remains of the medieval development in the centre of the Old Town. This gang and höfe are off Glockengeisserstrasse … Continue reading “Gangs and Höfe”
Beyond the Brush 