Easter Wells 2014
Last year I was in London during the Easter holidays, which meant I couldn't follow one of my favourite Easter traditions, to wit, visiting the beautiful Easter Wells in our Franconian country side. This year, I did so one day early, because rain was broadcast for Good Friday (and sure enough, it's raining now), whereas yesterday it was lovely and sunny. And thus, I can share with you my annual Easter pic spam again - the wells in their multitudes of colours and eggs are there below the cut.
Our (i.e. APs & self) first stop this year was Litzendorf, where they didn't just decorate the well but created a large setting.
Details:
There are, btw, only a few lambs; hares still rule as an Easter symbol. Still, here's one of the few:
This particular Easter Well also includes clerical portrait eggs (of the former and present pople, the arch bishop of Bamberg and the parish priest):
I do love the hares in the ivy:
On to the next stop, which was Gasselbach:
Then we went to my AP's favourite Easter Well, Tiefenpölz. Which is my dad's favourite not simply for the beautiful arrangement but because they offer eggs for free there, as an Easter present. :)
You may have noticed the row of eggs depicting the passion of Christ. Here are some close up:
And another detailed look at the decorations:
Moving on through Franconian Switzerland, to Aufsess:
And Heiligenstadt, which has one of the most famous wells. There's also dancing during the weekend, but as I said: the broadcast is rain. I rarely had the chance to see it without a cluster of people around it as I did here:
This egg cracks me up because it advertises the local butcher:
Beringerersmühle
Next village: Leutenbach
And Egloffstein:
Pottenstein, which also boasts some lovely old houses and a castle which you can rent for school holidays (I know because my old school did that once, decades ago):
Bärnfels:
Obertrubach, main village:
Obertrubach, outside the village, at the source of the Trubach:
And lastly, the most famous Easter Well in Franconian Switzerland, Bieberbach:
With its school of hares:
The Bieberbach well in details:
In case I shan't be able to post properly again during the holidays: happy Easter to all who celebrate it!
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Our (i.e. APs & self) first stop this year was Litzendorf, where they didn't just decorate the well but created a large setting.
Details:
There are, btw, only a few lambs; hares still rule as an Easter symbol. Still, here's one of the few:
This particular Easter Well also includes clerical portrait eggs (of the former and present pople, the arch bishop of Bamberg and the parish priest):
I do love the hares in the ivy:
On to the next stop, which was Gasselbach:
Then we went to my AP's favourite Easter Well, Tiefenpölz. Which is my dad's favourite not simply for the beautiful arrangement but because they offer eggs for free there, as an Easter present. :)
You may have noticed the row of eggs depicting the passion of Christ. Here are some close up:
And another detailed look at the decorations:
Moving on through Franconian Switzerland, to Aufsess:
And Heiligenstadt, which has one of the most famous wells. There's also dancing during the weekend, but as I said: the broadcast is rain. I rarely had the chance to see it without a cluster of people around it as I did here:
This egg cracks me up because it advertises the local butcher:
Beringerersmühle
Next village: Leutenbach
And Egloffstein:
Pottenstein, which also boasts some lovely old houses and a castle which you can rent for school holidays (I know because my old school did that once, decades ago):
Bärnfels:
Obertrubach, main village:
Obertrubach, outside the village, at the source of the Trubach:
And lastly, the most famous Easter Well in Franconian Switzerland, Bieberbach:
With its school of hares:
The Bieberbach well in details:
In case I shan't be able to post properly again during the holidays: happy Easter to all who celebrate it!
This entry was originally posted at http://selenak.dreamwidth.org/978522.html. Comment there or here, as you wish.