This building was built in 1899/1901 for the company Portois & Fix by the architect Max Fabiani. The façade is decorated by tiles produced in the Hungarian porcelain manufacture Zsolnay. The pattern of the façade was designed by using tiles with two different shades of green.
In 2013 the German states Saxony and Thuringia are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the architect and designer Henry van de Velde by establishing a Van-de-Velde-Jahr composed of exhibitions situated in cities like Weimar, Jena, Erfurt, Gera, Apolda, Bürgel and Chemnitz.
This greenhouse owned by Gottlieb Daimler housed that workshop and testing station where Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach used to work for their newest inventions.
A maypole at the market place of Schorndorf. The signs placed at the maypole represents different industries working in the city. Are there similar maypoles in your region?
On my way to the birthplace of Gottlieb Daimler in Schorndorf I came across this beautiful floral decoration. Which places with exceptional floral decorations do you know?
The landmark of Dortmund is the big U on top of a former brewery building. Today the building houses besides others the Museum Ostwall and some exhibition rooms. The elements looking like mosaics are actually movies shown high over the city.
A detail I was especially impressed in. At the coking plant Hansa I saw a pithead bath. In this hall the workers put their clothes in special frameworks. Each framework is movable up and down by a chain.
Kokerei Hansa is a former coking plant in Dortmund. Today the plant houses a huge climbing gym named Kletterhalle Bergwerk and the remaining installations can be visited by guided tours.
In earlier times German miners used to have a small garden for vegetable and animals behind their homes. While strolling around a mining settlement next to the colliery Zeche Zollern I came across this special breed of chickens. In German they are called Sundheimer.
An interesting detail seen at the colliery Zeche Zollern: The Lohnhalle. This is a building shaped like a station hall with some cashier’s desks inside. Here the miners got paid their wages.