New week, new thread
(old thread here: The Photo Thread: Week of 2024-06-23 )
Took the car in for its annual service today. Had to wait a couple of hours, so I did a walk around the Peaseberg (Pease Mountain), the local highpoint. In total, it was 12KM round-trip, including the walk from the dealer to the entrance to the park.
“Rush hour traffic” - about 08:10 in the morning. Or as one of my follower’s on BlueSky wrote:
I can see clearly now,
the bus has gone…
It is all woodland trails, and some of it was still a bit boggy, after the rain we’ve been having.
But the views are spectacular. This is the view back towards the town where I live.
It is a stone quarry and there are steep climbs and deep holes around the walk.
But the views are spectacular, I think I said that already… That is the view from the south end to the main view point at the top of the quarry.
West, North West and East sides from the top.
On the west side, the big white Futtersilo (animal feed silo) in the middle of the picture is about a 2KM out of town from where I live (to the right of the silo).
The East side (last photo) is a view down into the city (Osnabrück) - the industrial estate and port are at the front, but the cit goes all the way through the green, you can just make out the churches in teh centre of the old city just to the right of the trees on the left behind the white mass of the industrial area.
The city has been inhabited since around 5.000 BC! There are graves out at Voxtrup that date from that period. The Romans built here and there was a very famous battle, one of the major defeats of the Romans by the Germania in 9 AD at near-by Kalkriese (the Battle of Teutoburger Wald) - the battle appears in the Netflix series Barbarians (S01 E06). The old part of the city dates back to the middle ages, with key buildings and fortifications built between 8th Century AD - the main Catholic church was finished at the beginning of the 9th Century, in 804.
The town I live in, Bramsche, dates back to the 8th Century and is famous for its woven red and white linen, the local town museum is great and has a working Jaquard Loom - @Leo should know what that is! It was the first automated loom to use a “program”; it uses punched cards to define the pattern of the weave. It still works and it regularly demonstrated. They also have a 19th Century loom, which is huge and still works as well.
