Germany - Cochem
Cochem, Brückenstraße, mosaic. Historic mosaic on a town-wall.
The Geschiedenis Monument or History Wall.
The small building at the old Moselle bridge was decorated in 1982 by the Cochem graphic artist Carlfritz Nicolay with a mosaic to the city's history (pedigree of Cochem called).
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The Geschiedenis Monument or History Wall is located at the intersection of Bernstrasse and Bruckenstrasse, the underpass area of the road leading to Skagerak Bridge. It is a piece of colorful artwork that covers the wall of an enclosed staircase leading to the sidewalk on that bridge. Clay tiles of different sizes, shapes, and colors have images and dates on them that relate to important events in Cochem's history. Separating these tiles are flowing groups of rocks, pebbles, and bricks which add texture to the artwork.
Most noticeable in the center is the red cross placed on a white background - the emblem for the Archbishop of Trier who held this area through the early middle ages to the early 1800s. At the top of that center tile, is an image of him seated in a chair wearing a Bishop's hat and holding a cross. Below that tile is an image of his Reichsburg Castle with its historical dates of ownership. Smaller images such as his seal and Elector's crown surround the center of this art work while clusters of tiles of varying sizes are woven around that core to show other events in Cochem's history from the Romans, to knights and soldiers with weapons, peasant grape growers, to the Skagerak bridge, and a timeline of events to 1949. Nothing, of course, is in English, but the images and dates are enough to decipher their meaning.
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Germany - Cochem
Cochem, Brückenstraße, mosaic. Historic mosaic on a town-wall.
The Geschiedenis Monument or History Wall.
The small building at the old Moselle bridge was decorated in 1982 by the Cochem graphic artist Carlfritz Nicolay with a mosaic to the city's history (pedigree of Cochem called).
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The Geschiedenis Monument or History Wall is located at the intersection of Bernstrasse and Bruckenstrasse, the underpass area of the road leading to Skagerak Bridge. It is a piece of colorful artwork that covers the wall of an enclosed staircase leading to the sidewalk on that bridge. Clay tiles of different sizes, shapes, and colors have images and dates on them that relate to important events in Cochem's history. Separating these tiles are flowing groups of rocks, pebbles, and bricks which add texture to the artwork.
Most noticeable in the center is the red cross placed on a white background - the emblem for the Archbishop of Trier who held this area through the early middle ages to the early 1800s. At the top of that center tile, is an image of him seated in a chair wearing a Bishop's hat and holding a cross. Below that tile is an image of his Reichsburg Castle with its historical dates of ownership. Smaller images such as his seal and Elector's crown surround the center of this art work while clusters of tiles of varying sizes are woven around that core to show other events in Cochem's history from the Romans, to knights and soldiers with weapons, peasant grape growers, to the Skagerak bridge, and a timeline of events to 1949. Nothing, of course, is in English, but the images and dates are enough to decipher their meaning.
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