Finished 25th March 2022

  

1200 Pieces

 Palace and garden in the baroque era

Illustrated by Hans Joachim Dräger

Swans have always been a symbol of royalty

 

people in the gardens, dressed in typical baroque garments and hairstyle

Guests arrive in a carriage and pair of white horses on the "courtyard of honours"

 A special flower-bed called "Embroidery", because it looks like an embroidered fabric

A maze or Labyrinth

 Sometimes small castles have been extended to huge palaces. In this illustration the castle has been built inside a lake. It is now connected to the palace.

 

This is the so-called "grand terrasse" with bassins, flower-beds and fountains. In the baroque era the guests should be impressed by the beauty and extraordinary design as well as the possibility of the landlord to subordinate nature to his will and "power".

Finished 18th May 2021

  

1200 Pieces (-1)

A town of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages,

illustration by Hans J. Draeger, Convent Verlag Hamburg

 This town seems to be Lübeck 

53°52'11.0"N 10°41'11.0"E

Finished 5th September 2010 (and updated March 2022)

 

1200 Pieces

The Marketplace

Illustration by Heinz Joachim Dräger

The old marketplace depicting various architectural styles from left to right: gothic, renaissance, baroque, rococo, classizism and art nouveau. It shows merchants, a tourist guide, a painter, an old church (roman style) and a fountain.

Just take a look at the contemporary decoration: a scaffold on the church, graffiti everywhere, "for sale"-billboards. Modern times :-)