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Heavy snowfall at the Scheidplatz station, a major interchange from bus to tram to subway. Left to right we have:
Bus line 144, tram line 28, tram line 12.
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Just a red rose in the garden.
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A squirrel on our birdhouse, enjoying some peanuts.
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At the Scheidplatz square is a major interchange of the same name from bus to tram to subway.
Here we are on tram tracks while in the distance one line 12 tram is about to leave (away from me, just to state that).
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St. Johannes der Täufer (John the Baptist) is a very old church located in Taufkirchen, south of Munich.
The church building was originally Romanesque and dates back to around 1150. The church was converted to Gothic style around 1500 and later the interior was converted to the current Baroque style in 1738.
Here's a detail of the altar picture.
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A canada goose stretching out while a greylag goose nearby could not care less about this. Spotted on the pond in front of Schloss Nymphenburg (Nymphenburg Palace).
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Seen in the Sendlinger Straße pedestrian zone.
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Every evening there are some people sitting on the bridge truss.
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Fountains along the grand staircase of the "Grand Gateway" (港汇广场) shopping mall in Xujiahui.
In the right backround the "Orient Shopping Centre" (東方商廈) and on the left the "Metro City" (美罗城) mall.
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Munich's resident "cowboy". He looks sort of bored - but then, his herd never moves...
The Rinderhirt is part of the Rindermarkt (= cattle market) ensemble of cattle and their herder. The entire ensemble intends to remember the times when the Rindermarkt was a place to trade cattle.
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This thing is actually the roof of a "light well" or "skylight" that provides daylight to the mezzanine level of the U-Bahn station "Harthof", located at the southern end of that station.
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November Rain on Nanjing Road West.
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View of the Hubertusbrunnen at the eastern end of the Schlosskanal.
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Female mallard duck (anas platyrhynchos) looking for food at the "Kleinhesseloher See" in the English Garden of Munich.
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Wide angle panning of a tram in Munich's pedestrian zone.
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A nightly view of the Isar river at the Reichenbachbrücke bridge.
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Sheep on a meadow in the northernmost part of Munich's English Garden.
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Subway station of the U1/U7 lines at the Olympia-Einkaufszentrum shopping mall.
This station also connects to line U3, that section looks completely different.
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A young blackbird, still with juvenile plumage on the head.
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A view downstream from the Karolinenbrücke. The tower left center is called Mutterturm ("Mother's Tower"), was built by Sir Hubert von Herkomer to honor his mother. Construction of the tower was completed around 1887.
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Willenborg's ferris wheel on the Oktoberfest 2025.
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A super wide view of the late renaissance barrel vault ceiling of the Michaelskirche in Munich.
St, Michael was built from 1583 to 1597. It was massively damaged during an allied bomb raid in 1944 and reconstructed from 1946 to 1948.
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"Zu verkaufen" means "for sale". Interested? Two former Warsaw Pact (probably from the former GDR) military vessels, disarmed, demilitarized, leaking oil and in various stages of rotting were for up for sale in Peenemünde harbour back in 2019. I blurred the phone number given on the port side of the nearer boat for obvious reasons...
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Spotted in a small orchard beside the northern part of Munich's English Garden.
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~ E rubero' per te la Luna By Mistero Hifeng ~
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Looking north along the tracks of the abandoned S-Bahn station "München Olympiastadion". Last train was 1988... - 38 years ago...
The station was built especially for the 1972 Summer Olympics held nearby. After the Olympic Games ended, the station was used only if football matches were held at the Olympic Stadium. In 1988 operations ceased finally, since then the station is left for decay - despite being a listed building as part of the Olympic ensemble.
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This building originally dates to 1502 (completion). It served as one of the main granaries of the town. The name Mauthalle (= customs hall) dates to the 19th century when the building served as the customs headquarters of Nuremberg (Maut = customs duties). The building is 84 m long, 20 m wide and 29 m tall.
During an allied bombing raid in the night of March 8th/9th 1943 the roof structure burned out, the building was covered with a provisional roof afterwards. During another allied bombing raid on October 3rd 1944 the walls received just slight shrapnel damage, but finally during the bombing raid on January 2nd 1945 the building was hit heavily, the eastern gable and the southern walls collapsed, the building burned out completely.
Reconstruction after WWII lasted from 1951 to 1953 in slightly simplified form.
Today it serves as an office building with shops in the ground floor, the basement houses the restaurant Mautkeller which features a microbrewery.
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17 m tall sculpture located at the Leopoldstraße in Munich, in front of the "Munich Re" reinsurance company.
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An Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto) sitting on our birdhouse.
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Two trams again - this is a similar traffic situation as in the previous upload, just a different point of view.
The background tram is coming out of the Arnulfstraße, entering the Bahnhofsplatz square; while the foreground tram comes out of Prielmayerstraße from the Stachus square, entering the Dachauer Straße.
Single exposure, no "tricks" used.
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The DVOR/DME Maisach (MAH, 115.20 MHz) is a VHF navigational aid for high- and low-level enroute navigation, located at 1,759 ft / 536 m MSL, about 500 m from the hamlet of Priel (not the town of Maisach as the name suggests). Usable range is 40 NM. It also serves as an approach fix for the ILS EDDM RWY 08R (Approach Chart here).
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View northwards from the Großhesseloher Brücke.
In the distance the Olympiaturm TV tower (about 11 km away) and the tip of the St. Paul steeple.
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The outlet of the Köglmühlbach on the north side of Von-der-Tann-Straße. From here on this creek is called Schwabinger Bach and runs through the English Garden.
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A quick garden take.
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One of the inlet structures of this weir in the Loisach river. The current weir dates to 1994, but the earliest weir in this place was mentioned in 14th century documents.
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Subway station "Lehel" of lines U4 and U5.
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The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
Hamlet, Act I, scene v.
Macromondays theme As long as it ticks
Another... Again, it was dead cheap at the local discounter, so I could not resist 😜.
Reasonable sharp, but not a razor. Minor manufacturing flaws, some edges not perfectly smoothed out. The wooden application on the right side of the handle is ever so slightly loose.
Fully "street legal" in Germany - the blade is even locked in the closed position.
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An interior view of the Mercedes Vision One-Eleven shown on the IAA Mobility 2023
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An Otter "Mercator" knife on a piece of mossy wood.
The "Mercator" knives were originally produced since 1867 as allround pocket knives by a company named Heinrich Kaufmann & Söhne, Indiawerk in the town of Solingen. The knife name "Mercator" is the Latin version of the German word "Kaufmann" (family name of the company founder) and was chosen for marketing reasons. The simple and rugged design is therefore well over 150 years old, with a folded steel handle and a 9 cm long lockback blade.
Due to its ruggedness and affordability the knife became rather popular with German troops in WW I and WW II, but it was never officially issued.
After WW II the knife also gained some popularity and abundance in the US because returning soldiers brought them home as war souvenirs. This in turn led there to the wrong belief those knives were official army issue.
Since 1995 the knives are produced by Otter-Messer, also in Solingen, a knife maker with a history dating back to 1840. The town of Solingen itself, recognizable by its nickname Klingenstadt (Blade City), has been the heart of the European blades and cutlery industry since the Middle Ages. Around 90 percent of the entire German knife, scissors and cutlery industry is based in Solingen.
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“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein
“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
― Andy Rooney
The “Timepiece” Sundial is an installation, balanced and secured by three mooring chains, at St Katherine Docks near to London's famous Tower Bridge. The sundial was designed by Wendy Taylor and commissioned in 1973.
This night photograph was taken in during my visit to London in October 2022 during blue hour. The slowly drifting clouds provide interesting complements to the Sundial and Tower Bridge.