Completed 24th December 2024 (2/3)

  

1000 Pieces

Belvedere Palace, Vienna

(c) Manchan, Getty Images (has been uploaded there in 2007)

 The Belvedere is a World Heritage Site, a Baroque jewel, one of the oldest museums in the world, and a showcase for contemporary art. Please enjoy the Folder on the Museum's Website

The main garden, which is depicted here, is situated between the Lower and the Upper Belvedere and extends over three large terraces. The design, by Dominique Girard, garden architect of the Elector of Bavaria, showcases all the essential elements of Baroque garden architecture: symmetrical flower parterres, water basins, tiers and steps, trimmed hedges, and more.

Advent 2024 - it's time for my annual advent calendars :-) and some chocolate - Day 24

 I am the luckiest and most grateful girl in the world today: 3 calendars filled with jigsaw puzzles, 2 calendars filled with chocolate  

Yessss - no more words to say, except: get started for Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Day 6

 

Day 7 + 8

Day 9-16

Day 18

 

 Day 19 + 20 

 

Day  21+22

Dresden maybe??

What's up there??

Day 23

No, not Dresden...

Day 24

Thank you very much for these amazing experiences while travelling between Vienna and Paris 

I visited the Königssee in Bavaria and Salzburg

 A few weeks ago I visisted the very southeast part of Germany

Here we are at Schönau at the beautiful Königssee

Detailed view of an ibex (seems to be an old statue)

the turquoise water of the Königssee

waiting for the boat to come

waterfall

St. Bartholomew

It started raining and I decided to visit the church

tourist boats with 4-ton-electric-engines in the pouring rain

St. Bartholomew and the famous Watzmann with loads of fog

 

Just a few hours in Salzburg, Austria

it really started snowing (!!)

The place where Mozart was born

The high altar inside the Collegiate church

Austrian coffee culture at "Tomaselli"

Creator of the "Original Salzburger Mozartkugel"

online

of course I bought a few - they are of excellent quality and taste

 

Another worldfamous building is the white 5***** Hotel Sacher

There are so many sights left to see (Mirabell, the castle, the city itself) 

... but the snow cutted us of the joy of exploring more. Will come back - for sure!

 

Bad Reichenhall

 

Austrian coffee culture at the Café Reber

Commemorating the dead soldiers of WW I + II

 

Saltworks building (industrial heritage) to make salt of brine 

- the so-called trademark "Reichenhaller Salz"

 

The Wittelsbacher Fountain (cultural heritage), built 1905

From the slender column, Bavaria looks down. In her left hand she holds a golden scepter, in her right hand a shield with the Bavarian coat of arms. She wears an oak wreath in her hair.

At the foot of the column, eight relief figures represent the social structure of the Bavarian people of that time: art, science, farming, forestry, crafts, handicrafts, industrial workers and trade. The inscription "To the glorious house of Wittelsbach - the faithful city of Bad Reichenhall" is written in Gothic letters.

 

 Electoral Salt Office clerk, 16th c. style

A controller of the salt office

 

Interior of the St. Johannes Hospital Church, Bad Reichenhall

Already more than 1200 years ago, in the year 788, this church was mentioned in the Salzburg register of goods and up to the 12th century Johannes-Spital was even the only place of worship in the city. Like so many other buildings in the area, the great fire in the city destroyed most of the Sankt Johannes-Spital, so the church was rededicated in 1878.

 

From the 14th to the 19th century, the joint bread shop of the Reichenhall bakers was located there.

The old bread house is a three-storey corner building with a hipped roof and corner bay, which was rebuilt on older foundations after the town fire of 1834.
Lothar Korvin designed the facade painting around 1925. The motifs show i.a. the town fire, the salt works before the town fire, the then new, now old salt works, a mountain rifleman with the Bavarian diamond flag and the city coat of arms as well as several craft guilds.

 

What a wonderful mosaic of the old town of Bad Reichenhall

 

It was almost spring back in March

Unfortunately I had to go home after all