Hidden courtyard
These are really the backs of the houses and the public entrance to this square is really unobtrusive.
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2012-01-17
Hidden courtyard
These are really the backs of the houses and the public entrance to this square is really unobtrusive.
2011-08-10
Cascade messine
In the current Google maps satellite photos, this is still a car park, but Metz has, in fact, thrown out the cars and given the square over to pedestrians. Metz gets better every day.
2011-05-07
Summer in the city
The main square for street cafés in Saarbrücken set up for the Franco-German Perspectives Festival.
2010-01-26
Place Goethe
The square commemorates Goethe's stay in Sarreguemines in 1770 and his mention of the town in his collection Dichtung und Wahrheit.
Sarreguemines is known in German as Saargemünd, and although these days the town is well and truly anchored in France, it is on the Saarbrücken tram line and many of its inhabitants speak a dialect of German.
2009-09-02
Light and shade, old and new
A sculpture by Gernot Waldner looking onto the Schlossplatz, the square of the old duke's palace.
What is the sculpture trying to tell us? The official Zweibrücker web site has the answer to that question. In fact, it has two answers. On the German page, we are told the sculpture symbolises the destruction and rebuilding of the town. In the English translation of the same page, we are told the sculpture "represents an open door and invites the viewers to look back into the ducal times".
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