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The Manor Wischlingen is located in the western district of Dortmund, Huckarde.
From the former knighthood Wischlingen, which had to be broken up in 1903 due to dilapidation, until today only the half-timbered chapel built in 1783 is preserved.Its foundations date back to a predecessor building built around the year 1400. The first Protestant service on Westphalian soil was celebrated here.The chapel was built as a half-timbered hall with roof rider and polygonal choir. After an initial repair in 1951, the chapel was restored in 1974 and 1975 and integrated into the Wischlingen park. In the chapel there is a wooden pulpit altar and burial plates of the families of Syberg and Sydow from the 17th and 18th. Century.
The house Wischlingen is listed as a monument, the Protestant chapel, the only sacred half-timbered building in Dortmund, as a monument in the monument list of the city of Dortmund.
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Borga are the remains of an old German radar station built in 1944 near Eggum on the Lofoten Islands.
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This photograph was taken on the Newcastle side of the river. From left to right:
The 42 meter tall Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (The Baltic), which is housed in a converted flour mill on the Gateshead side of the river. The original Baltic Flour Mills was built for Rank Hovis Ltd. The foundations were laid in the late 1930s, construction was paused during the Second World War, the mill started operating in 1950, and was closed in 1976. The idea of converting the building was part of the regeneration of Gateshead that began in the 1990s. The Baltic opened in 2002 and hosts exhibitions, events, and a variety of educational programmes.
The Sage Gateshead (The Sage) is a purpose built concert venue and musical education centre on the Gateshead side of the river. Planning for The Sage began when the Royal Northern Sinfonia and Northern Arts began discussing ideas for a new concert hall. The curved glass and stainless steel building was designed by Norman Foster, funded largely by the National Lottery, and cost over 70 Million pounds. It contains three separate, acoustically isolated, performance spaces, works with local schools and academies, and runs courses for local residents.
The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a combined pedestrian and cyclist bridge linking the Gateshead arts centres the Quayside area on the Newcastle side. The bridge is sometimes described as the 'Winking Eye Bridge' as the entire bridge - both the supporting arch and the walkway - can tilt as a single structure to allow large vessels to pass. The bridge cost £22m to build and was funded largely by The Millennium Commission and The European Regional Development Fund.
Two more bridges, the Tyne Bridge (flic.kr/p/2o2U1Z9) and the High Level Bridge (flic.kr/p/2o3nWgA) can be seen behind the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
“Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - Francis of Assisi
This is a sort of old photo, taken in July 2022. It was taken on a hike along the Imnaha River to the Snake River. It was one of the most beautiful and memorable hikes I've ever taken (and yes, that includes the rattle snake blocking the path). At some point, I'll make it back.
I was in the area last year, but drove up the Imnaha rather hiking down it. That was one of the most beautiful drives I've driven in a long time. Turns out, this part of Oregon is stunning and amazing. Very few people explore it and that's all the better.
This photo was taken while climbing among the foundations of the smelting towers that used to be here during the mining days of the early 1900s.
It's all public land and open to exploration on foot.
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'Foundations'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Fuji CDU Duplicating Film; x-03/1996
Exposure: f/4.5; 1/100
Process: DIY ECN-2
Oregon
July 2022
If you have built castles in the air; your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
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seen at Glücksburg
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A copy of the Chinese Yu Garden and Tea House of Shanghai in Hamburg (Hamburg is twinned with Shanghai, and the city of Shanghai donated the garden). This is much more than a symbolic gesture. It is a real transplant. Think of the Hindu temples recently inaugurated in the UK: in each case soil from holy ground in India was inserted into the temples' foundations. The world we live in is increasingly relying on the creativity and functioning of such transplants.
Backlighting a pillar in an expansive abandoned development. Klarus XT2CR flashlight resting on my camera bag. f/5, 5secs, ISO800. Post processed from RAW exposure in Adobe Lightroom 6.
Stiftpfarrkirche St. Philipp und Jakob
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This church was built 1245 on the foundations of an older monastery church whose first construction turn about 877.
Matthew 7:24-25
New International Version
The Wise and Foolish Builders
24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
This was taken from the side of the Lune Valley, near Gressingham, in the north of Lancashire. Ingleborough - some miles to the south and within the Yorkshire Dales - is the second highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks. It can be seen from many miles around. It is 2,372 feet above sea level, and much of it is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The summit plateau is encircled by a large rampart with the foundations of Iron Age huts.
The essential starting point of a well built wall is a solid foundation and without it, there can be cracks, slippage and big problems!
No matter though, how good the foundations are, there can be geological problems underground resulting in subsidence and ultimately cracking results, similar to this.
This is what we experienced in the first house we bought in Worksop, Nottinghamshire,in the U.K. as well as in my parents house previously where cracks developed, large enough to fit your hand into! Expensive and extensive pinning and other processes were needed in order to rectify the situations. The whole area was riddled with underground mine workings that caused minor geological rifts to shift, resulting in damage to buildings on the surface.
In 1527, the Cathedral, Árnakirkja, at Skálholt built by Bishop Árni Helgason burned to the ground. A temporary turf-roofed chapel, Þorláksbúð, was built near the church ruins. Þorláksbúð is named after Þorlákur Þórhallsson who was the bishop at Skálholt in 1178-1193. He is also Iceland’s patron and only Saint (St.Thorlak). When a new cathedral was built, Þorláksbúð was then used as a storehouse.
The building in the photo is a replica of the original Þorláksbúð. The replica, built in 2011-2012, stands on the ruins of the original structure.
For over 700 years Skálholt was a center center of religion, culture and education in Iceland which makes it one of country´s most important historic sites. Norse settlers came to the area in the late 800s and early 900s (AD). In 1000 AD, New law mandated Christianity as the official religion of Iceland. The country’s first bishop, Ísleifur Gissurarson, ordained in 1056, made Skálholt the episcopal see of all Iceland (until another Episcopal see was created in Hólar in 1106 AD). Over the next 700 years several significant religious and cultural events would occur at Skálholt.
1- One of the most revered of the bishops residing at Skálholt duuring the middle ages was Þorlákur Þórhallsson (bishop 1178-1198), who became Iceland’s only saint.
2-For centuries after Bishop Þórhallsson’s death, people came on pilgrimage from all corners of Iceland to visit his relics in Skálholt.
3-During those medieval times, huge wooden cathedrals were built at Skálholt. These cathedrals drew many from across Iceland. Before the Reformation 32 Catholic Bishops sat at Skálholt.
4-During the mid 16th century, Icelanders, now under Danish rule, converted to Lutheranism.The Reformation came during turbulent times in Iceland. On November 7, 1550, Bishop Jón Arason along with his two sons, Björn and Ar, were beheaded at Skálholt. Arason who was the Bishop of Hólar had been the last remaining Catholic bishop in Iceland.
5-The translation of the Bible into Icelandic started in secrecy in a cow stall of Skálholt.
6-After the Reformation, one of the best known and most influential bishops of Skálholt was Brynjólfur Sveinsson (bishop 1639-1674), Highly respected for his learning, he collected old Icelandic manuscripts that help preserve history and the language. Under his direction, church members built a new wooden church at Skálholt, approximately the same size as the present Cathedral.
7-In all ten churches have stood at in Skálholt. Some measured larger and some smaller but all were built on the same basic foundations.
For centuries Skálholt was the actual capital of a rural society and the cultural and spiritual center of the country (together with Hólar in the North), figuring eminently in the cultural and church history. But after waning status of the bishop’s office, volcanic eruptions, a major earthquake and other disasters in the late 18th century the episcopal see and school were transferred to Reykjavík. Skálholt fell into disrepute.
In the mid-20th century Skálholt rose from ashes, due to its historical significance. The modern cathedral, consecrated in 1963, displays works of modern art, as well as for artifacts from previous churches on the site.
References:
guidetoiceland.is/connect-with-locals/regina/skalholt-in-...
Als Agorá wird das Ausgrabungsgelände in der Nähe des Hafens bezeichnet, das an den Elefthérias Platz grenzt. Wohngebäude aus der Zeit der Johanniter bildeten an dieser Stelle über Jahrhunderte das mittelalterliche Stadtzentrum. Bei einem schweren Erdbeben im Jahr 1933 wurden diese Gebäude völlig zerstört. Die italienischen Archäologen nutzten die Gelegenheit und gruben die darunter liegenden Teile der antiken Agorá und der angrenzenden Gebäude aus. Die antike Agorá war in der Antike Marktplatz und Versammlungsplatz der Hauptstadt der Insel Kos.
Erbaut wurde sie in drei Phasen zwischen 366 v.Chr. und dem 3. oder 4. Jahrhundert vor Christus, als die antike Agorá durch ein Erdbeben zerstört wurde.
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Agora is the excavation site near the port that borders on Elefthérias Square. Residential buildings from the time of the Knights of St. John formed the medieval city center for centuries. During a severe earthquake in 1933, these buildings were completely destroyed. The Italian archaeologists seized the opportunity and excavated the underlying parts of the ancient Agorá and the adjacent buildings. The ancient Agorá was in antiquity marketplace and meeting place of the capital of the island of Kos.
It was built in three phases between 366 BC. and the 3rd or 4th century BC, when ancient Agorá was destroyed by an earthquake.
Opening hours: Wed - Mon from 8 am to 3 pm, free admission
This little stone tower appears to have been here for many years, but I have no idea who built it or how old it is. Whoever it was, they built it to last!
If someone asked you to construct a small tower like this on the beach - where it would be battered by rising tides and stormy waves - where would you build it? On the nice, soft sand, or on the solid rock? The answer is obvious, of course. If the tower is to stand the test of time and tide, it will have to be built on a solid foundation. Rock, not sand.
When foundations are so obviously important, why then are so many prepared to gamble with their eternal destiny by building their lives on a foundation which they have spent little or no time investigating? Many seem content to go through life, never contemplating what might await them after death. Consequently, they have no spiritual foundation. They make choices and take decisions which not only affect their lives today and for many years to come but, ultimately, those choices will determine where they will spend eternity.
Those who do occasionally think about life after death, often seem content to simply follow everyone else. But, if all around you are building their little stone towers on soft sand, should you follow their example? Or should you look around to find a rocky outcrop on which to build?
Since the Bible claims to be God's word to man; and since Jesus of Nazareth claimed that the Bible spoke about Him; and since He claimed to be the ONLY way to be saved from an eternity in hell; wouldn't it be prudent to take a little time to consider His claims? What have you got to lose? Only your very soul!
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
Why not start here... the Gospel of John (the fourth book in the New Testament) is a surprisingly easy read. It's almost like a short novel and moves along at an engaging pace. And it will only take a few of hours to read the whole thing.
Past founders laid the groundwork for today's goals and tomorrow's success. We build upon previous experience, learn from the masters and rise above our ancestors. To achieve greatness is to stand on the backs of those giants and further our momentum skyward.
Back in the day our area was heavily mined for coal in vast underground tunnel systems. The miners lived in tiny homes they built, side by side. They named the place "Coal Town" Many of their foundations still exist today and are scattered all over this area. They had a nice view of Greenhorn Mountain in the distance. In a previous post, I took a pic of a huge coal pile they excavated by hand from the tunnels, which is just out of view to the right.
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Every time we fight I know it's not right, every time that you're upset and I smile. I know I should forget, but I can't.
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“I watched her and I watched the birds' shadows flit across her face, and I...wanted. I wanted more happy memories to hang up on the ceiling, so many happy memories with this girl that they would crowd the ceiling and flap out into the hall and burst out of the house.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I have another shot from this which I will use some time to edit, so this will be my weeks photo. It is simpel, but I like it. I really want to challenge myself for my last 2 weeks, and I have so many ideas.
Hope you guys like this simpel picture, love you all! <3
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The "Old Louvre" 羅浮宮 羅浮宮（法語：Musée du Louvre）位於法國巴黎市中心的塞納河邊，原是法國的監獄，現在是羅浮宮博物館，擁有藝術收藏達3.5萬件，包括雕塑、繪畫、美術工藝及古代東方、古代埃及和古希臘羅馬等7個門類，主要收藏1860年以前的藝術作品與考古文物。The Old Louvre occupies the site of the 12th-century fortress of King Philip Augustus, also called the Louvre. Its foundations are viewable in the basement level as the "Medieval Louvre" department. This structure was razed in 1546 by King Francis I in favour of a larger royal residence which was added to by almost every subsequent French monarch. King Louis XIV, who resided at the Louvre until his departure for Versailles in 1678, completed the Cour Carrée, which was closed off on the city side by a colonnade. The Old Louvre is a quadrilateral approximately 160 m (520 ft) on a side consisting of 8 ailes (wings) which are articulated by 8 pavillons (pavilions). Starting at the northwest corner and moving clockwise, the pavillons consist of the following: Pavillon de Beauvais, Pavillon de Marengo, Northeast Pavilion, Central Pavilion, Southeast Pavilion, Pavillon des Arts, Pavillon du Roi, and Pavillon Sully (formerly, Pavillon de l'Horloge). Between the Pavillon du Roi and the Pavillon Sully is the Aile Lescot ("Lescot Wing"): built between 1546 and 1551, it is the oldest part of the visible external elevations and was important in setting the mould for later French architectural classicism. Between the Pavillon Sully and the Pavillon de Beauvais is the Aile Lemercier ("Lemercier Wing"): built in 1639 by Louis XIII and Cardinal Richelieu, it is a symmetrical extension of Lescot's wing in the same Renaissance style. With it, the last external vestiges of the medieval Louvre were demolished.
In the 19th century so the story goes, a rich householder who lived within sight of where the bridge is now built the original bridge of stone which stood here. He built the bridge for his two daughters so they could get to the beach on the other side. Alas this stone bridge was eventually washed away in a storm however the stone foundations remained and were reused as the foundations for the new bridge.
-kate nash
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EXPLORE #51 <---WOW!
May 31, 2008
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