NicoleB Photography

I figured I better start keeping my camera with me on our trips now, like I did it with the small Baby.
It gives me a bit more training and I often bite my nails, because I DON’T have it.

Some snaps out of the car from our trip to Tesco today (which was a very interesting experience all by itself. Obviously it has been Pay Day yesterday and there was a shitload of people there, most of them chatting with other people in the middle of the way, oblivious to other people trying to pass. I wonder if those have been the same people flying by with 140 kmh on the small tiny rotten roads…?!)

It seems there are more of these on the roads again. Wonder why. Nostalgia or need?

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One of the bigger cities nearby.
Here some glimpses of the main square.
They did a lot of renovation there in the last few years.
More to come one of these days

During my childhood people lived in this building.
I’m not sure if this building is city owned, but it sure falls under the category “Denkmalschutz".
A law that prohibits the owner from tearing down the building or changing it from it’s original architecture.

As kids we played with the kids from the family that lived there (if I remember it right - my best friend has a better memory ).
We were totally unaware that this building once had been a Jewish school.
We lived right around the corner in the street where the Synagogue has been (not aware of that either - at least I haven’t been).

In 1873 the Synagogue (now these days around the corner) bought the property.
In 1875 they built the simple school house with an apartment.
Some time in 1875 it changed from a private into a public Jewish school.
In 1908 it changed ownership to the public civil community (?).
Renovated in 1920 by a teacher named Albert Levi.
Used as a school until 1938.