The past several entries all came from the island of Borkum itself (as we caught up with the sequence on this particular series). This shot shows the coast of Groningen province, on the west side of the Ems estuary, as our ferry approached the German down of Emden which is on the east side of the same estuary. Plenty ‘o such windmills all over the coastlines and off shore on both sides of this international border.
Made it back to Berlin for a few day of work meetings last week, for this first time since 2017. Spent almost all the time in our office and its environs, in a for-me entirely new quarter of the city where I discovered amongst other things this interesting little legacy gateway / entrance.
Staying with the theme of “confusing churches,” the star-design window on this one confuses both me and many other visitors with whom I’ve walked this way before. This entrance has been just a few doors down from my own building for nearly my entire two years here, but from August I’ll be living in another part of the city, so this my be its farewell appearance.
So this rather differently-styled entrance is to the church noted in a previous post as Northern Germany’s largest baroque protestant church. What I’d never tuned into was just how very baroque and old-style some of those early protestants could be. For example, I blithely assumed it was a catholic church because when I was growing up, the only place you saw an actual body on the cross in the sanctuary was in catholic churches. Similarly, I don’t usually see such dramatic renditions of Archangel Michael (after whom this church is named) trampling Satan as one sees in the statues above this main entrance. Eek, eh? All this imagery of trampling, taming, binary good-evil simplifications of complex realities and so on leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth, tbh, so I’ma just pop all my remaining pics of this particular building in this one post and move on to other views in our future HH posts 😊.
(so much world, so little time....) 