My previous post showed y'all the sights inwards the historic pump of Hersbruck, my hometown inwards northern Bavaria. This post service ventures exterior the town pump together with covers areas a petty further afield.
The best panoramic thought of Hersbruck is from the Michelsberg, the 388 1000 (1278 ft) loma northward of downtown. I volition never instruct tired of this sight:
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| Town center, alongside Hersbruck Castle inwards the dorsum together with City Hall together with the Stadtkirche on the right |
The photos higher upward were taken from the terrace of the eating theatre that sits on ambit of the hill. This is what it looks similar from below:
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| Spectacular linden tree, merely leafing out |
The eating theatre parking lot also offers panoramic views looking north. This is Altensittenbach, the component subdivision of town where I grew up:
I'm constantly amazed at how light-green everything is!
The timing was correct to come across rapeseed fields inwards total bloom:
Rapeseed is the tertiary largest source of vegetable crude inwards the basis (what nosotros telephone phone "canola oil" inwards the United States of America is made from rapeseed).
My mother's vecino has quite an assortment of things inwards his front end yard:
This component subdivision of town withal has many former farm buildings. Most, if non all, of them are protected together with cannot survive altered.
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| Altensittenbach Creek |
This is the church building where I was baptized together with where my married adult woman together with I got married:
It's merely upward the street from my mother's house. In fact, it seems closer straight off than it did when I was a child. Funny how your perception of size together with distance changes every bit y'all instruct older.
The church building was completely renovated non long agone together with looks meliorate than I've always seen it.
As nosotros were walking merely about the cemetery, I was joking that quite a few graves had nicer plants than many front end yards merely about town.
This is where I spotted my get-go agave on this Deutschland trip:
Yes, it's merely a tiny pup, but it's an agave nonetheless. I receive got no thought which species.
Sempervivums are usually seen on graves because they're extremely hardy together with tin lav instruct yesteryear alongside rattling petty water. I suspect dew powerfulness survive plenty to hold them alive.
Communal watering cans for folks taking tending of the graves inwards the cemetery:
Across the means from the cemetery is a restored farmhouse alongside a fully functional wood-fired oven:
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| I wonder if they withal bake breadstuff here? |
Right side yesteryear side door is the neighborhood's haunted house:
It's been many years since this solid was lived in. It's total disrepair now, but since it's protected every bit a listed building, structural modifications are either impossible or cost-prohibitive. As happens all likewise often, the heirs aren't able to attain it up, hence it continues to degrade.
The front end door was broad open, hence nosotros snuck inside. There was a lot of junk, disintegrating pieces of furniture, fifty-fifty an former tape player. Except for the broken window below, cipher was all that photogenic, merely sad.
This solid on the other side of the cemetery is close to endure a similar fate. Its elderly possessor has died, together with straight off it's for sale. The restrictions imposed on listed buildings are hence strict that few people are willing to bargain alongside such a potential coin pit. When I was young, a swell aunt of mine lived inwards a small-scale story downstairs. I receive got fond memories of her together with the house, together with I promise it tin lav survive saved.
Speaking of relatives: Another swell aunt owned the solid below when I was a child. I spent a lot of fourth dimension there. The solid wasn't every bit prissy then, but the garden seemed enormous. Now it's merely a regular garden--neither small-scale nor large.
This is where I had my instant agave sighting on this trip. Two rather forlorn-looking agave pups, species unknown, but at to the lowest degree someone at that topographic point likes agaves. Maybe the solid unit of measurement that lives inwards this solid straight off is also responsible for the agave pup I spotted at the cemetery earlier?
My swell aunt's former solid from the side. The walkway is for human foot traffic only; it's much likewise narrow for vehicles.
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| Weeping willow |
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| Weeping willow together with nation of war memorial |
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| Creek alongside newly leaved out beech trees |
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| River Pegnitz |
I promise y'all enjoyed this trip dorsum to my roots. I had fun exploring my former stomping grounds through the eyes of a tourist. Contrary to what I had expected, I didn't experience wistful or melancholic. That must hateful that my existent domicile straight off is dorsum inwards California.
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