Topic: At Schonau am Konigssee (Read 32669 times)

OnlyNorth · « **on:** January 16, 2015, 04:49:09 am »

Recent tragic events reminded me about a short break I did in 2013 during the travel from Strasbourg to Bucharest.
(This statue I found in Berchtesgaden, on the ground, in a corner.)

francois · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2015, 10:24:53 am »

Very evocative, including the blood-red coloring…

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #2 on:** January 18, 2015, 11:51:17 am »

To francois:
I was impressed by the condition of this statue which seemed to be lost on the ground in a corner of a kind of a backyard ,so I post-processed it in that way and then I forgot it on a HD until now when those events brought it into my attention.
Thank for Your interest.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #3 on:** January 18, 2015, 12:05:10 pm »

I succeeded to fiind a room in Berchtesgaden instead of Schonau where there was no place at that end of August.That meant nothing because the distance between this two small towns is around 3 miles.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #4 on:** January 19, 2015, 04:45:22 am »

At a first and superficial sight,the people, who live here, have a child soul.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #5 on:** January 23, 2015, 03:46:00 am »

Of course,the world,even in such small town(around 8000 souls) is more complex and not so clear and clean behind the walls.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #6 on:** January 23, 2015, 07:41:43 pm »

A possible dimmer side of this town comes from the past and is linked by the Nazi leaders' houses,including Hitler's "Eagle's Nest''.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2015, 02:39:37 pm »

Here, in Berchtesgaden, all tourists, around me, were Germans, speaking, more or less, a personal English and not the same with mine

.However, I hope I understood well that Obersalzberg is the name of a mountainside or maybe a mountain zone,nearby the Berchtesgaden, where the Nazi leaders' retreat homes were.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #8 on:** January 26, 2015, 03:02:35 pm »

There,in Obersalzberg,after World War II, was a retreat space for military.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2015, 01:41:04 am »

From Berchtesgaden is a road that goes there by car or by bus.Limited time conducted me not towards the Nazi relics which are unpleasently for me(like all it happend with East Europe after WW2)

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #10 on:** January 29, 2015, 03:07:35 pm »

Here in Berchtesgaden I found,at that end of August,a small hotel(12 rooms),neither cheap nor expansive( 70 E per night ) with shower,parking car, breakfast and wireless connexion at 2.5 miles from Schonau.What I did not know was that the hotel was on a kind of hill and the parking was at the foot of it.So to carry up the luggages was provocatively but not tiredly because I have a light but strong two-weels hand-cart in the car.Next day I went by foot to the Schonau.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #11 on:** February 01, 2015, 06:51:36 am »

The road towards the Schonau passes close to the small lawns

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2015, 01:10:16 am »

and farms.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2015, 12:47:18 pm »

Then it crosses a river

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2015, 01:49:52 pm »

and arrives to the Schonau where a "dolce far niente" air from the end of 19th c. seemed to float.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2015, 11:50:38 am »

Schonau is beside the Konigssee lake.Here I experienced an unsettled weather.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #16 on:** February 10, 2015, 02:59:01 pm »

At the docks there are electric boats. A boat is around 60ft long with a capacity of 80 people.There are and smaller boats with 20 seats.Electric traffic on this lake was introduced as early as 1909! It can choose more directions.I paid around 14 E from Schonau to St.Bartholomew Church.The weather got better so my worry gone .

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #17 on:** February 16, 2015, 08:29:19 am »

Konigssee is a glacial lake,much longer than wide ( around 5 miles long and under 1 mile wide ).It is parallel with Austrian border and has a small island named Christlieger.There, it is a St.John Napomuk statue which was erected after all of four persons involved in a boat accident had been rescued at the beginning of 18th c.There is no boat service towards this island.Another highlight is this small waterfall.

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #18 on:** February 20, 2015, 06:43:14 am »

The boat stopped near a cliff-wall and a member of the crew begun to play a song.Then entire boat filled with echo-song.The Germans named this cliff "Echo Wand".... The crew has always a trumpet player member

OnlyNorth · « **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2015, 02:31:25 pm »

St.Bartholomew Church and its place was ,for me ,a love at first glance.

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