Christmas Pic Spam
Somewhat belated, because the combination of my Aged Parent having a severe cold and bad weather on Christmas Eve meant we did our annual walk from one Bamberg church to another to admire the nativity scenes in same on the 26th instead. Said bad weather, which keeps going, ensures that you're not getting any outside pictures of Bamberg this year. Luckily, the week before Christmas the weather was quite nice in the snowy Alps when I was there, so, have an impression of the Tegernsee (Rottach-Egern, to be precise) in winter first before we get to the nativity scenes:
Now, on to the annual
selenak Christmas tradition:
St. Martin's, the former Jesuit church:
Have some detail:
Our nativity scenes usually waver between dressing everyone up as Franconians or trying for a vaguely Bethlehem 0 AD look. Or sometimes both, as you can see.
And here's our cathedral on Boxing Day:
On to the small church holding the largest collection of nativity scenes, St. Martern's. What I love about this one is that the basic structure is carved out of a single root:
Some people go for different aspects than the Bethlehem story in their depiction. Here are Mary and Joseph escaping to Egypt:
And here's the search for room at the inn, full Franconian style:
St. Carmel. Always the most lovingly detailed, especially since the Obere Pfarre this year because it's being restored doesn't host a nativity scene:
You can't get the entire scene in one frame, so I took three. Now on to details:
(Said my AP: "Is he holding what I think he's holding?")
And here's how the church itself looks:
The Obere Pfarre might have been closed, but the outside nativity scene was there:
On to St. Michael's, which btw you can see painted in the background:
And the church, which is frighteningly cold in winter because as opposed to all the other churches it doesn't get heated, but still has the most beautiful ceiling with the 365 healing herbs painted on it:
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Now, on to the annual
selenak Christmas tradition:
St. Martin's, the former Jesuit church:
Have some detail:
Our nativity scenes usually waver between dressing everyone up as Franconians or trying for a vaguely Bethlehem 0 AD look. Or sometimes both, as you can see.
And here's our cathedral on Boxing Day:
On to the small church holding the largest collection of nativity scenes, St. Martern's. What I love about this one is that the basic structure is carved out of a single root:
Some people go for different aspects than the Bethlehem story in their depiction. Here are Mary and Joseph escaping to Egypt:
And here's the search for room at the inn, full Franconian style:
St. Carmel. Always the most lovingly detailed, especially since the Obere Pfarre this year because it's being restored doesn't host a nativity scene:
You can't get the entire scene in one frame, so I took three. Now on to details:
(Said my AP: "Is he holding what I think he's holding?")
And here's how the church itself looks:
The Obere Pfarre might have been closed, but the outside nativity scene was there:
On to St. Michael's, which btw you can see painted in the background:
And the church, which is frighteningly cold in winter because as opposed to all the other churches it doesn't get heated, but still has the most beautiful ceiling with the 365 healing herbs painted on it:
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/740550.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.