Contrasts are great when they work and in this church I recently saw in Hinterzarten in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) it really REALLY works. Like many churches, Maria in der Zarten (that's the name of the church) has been added to/changed/destroyed/rebuilt several times... More
I'm away this week and no orders will be posted out until Tuesday the 24th of June. To make up for this small inconvenience, I'm automatically taking 10% OFF all orders of £25.00 and above.
Yep, definitely Deutsch!Unfortunatley I didn't have time to have lunch there as the Kässpätzle were definitley calling my name. Oh well, maybe next time. Picture taken in September 2020. More
Last week I took my parents on a little holiday to the Black Forest, to be more precise to a place called Hinterzarten where I came across this rather splendid door on one of my walks. It was something like a community centre or library... More
It's very rare that I go past a church without popping in to have a little look inside, you never quite know what to expect. Well, with old catholic ones you kinda do, there's always loads of bling. So when... More
A few years ago I took a picture of a friendly painted hydrant in the Black Forest, well it turns out that painting hydrants is a bit of a thing in the Schwarzwald. Here are a couple more (lady) hydrants... More
A friendly Black Forest Hydrant. More
Hallo!
I’m Thorsten and this is my blog about stuff that grabs my attention.
Categories
- Architecture
- Arnhem
- Art
- Australia
- Austria
- Backsteinexpressionismus
- Baden-Württemberg
- Baubezogene Kunst
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Binz
- Black Forest
- Brandenburg
- Bridges
- Brno
- Brutalism
- Building Of The Week
- Chemnitz
- Churches
- Clever Ideas
- Cologne
- Czech Republic
- DDR
- Delft
- Design
- Doors
- Eisenhuettenstadt
- Fonts
- Food & Drink
- Frankfurt
- Freiburg
- Gardener Thorsten
- Germany
- Graphics
- Graz
- Hallstatt
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Hinterzarten
- Hungary
- Illustration
- Industrial
- Italy
- Leipzig
- London
- Marzahn
- Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
- Meissen
- Mosaics
- Munich
- Museums
- Netherlands
- Niederrhein
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Olympics
- Photography
- Poland
- Pop Art
- Portugal
- Posters
- Potsdam
- Random
- Road Signs
- Romania
- Rotterdam
- Rügen
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Shop Signs
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Space
- Switzerland
- Thorsten In The Country
- Thorstentours
- Towers
- Transport
- UK
- Upcycling
- Walter Womacka
- World Heritage Site
- Zurich