Riedlingen on the Danube, art, nature and beautiful storks

This is a memory of a summer evening in Riedlingen, a small town along the course of a still young Danube, with splendid half-timbered houses in a truly remarkable natural landscape. Riedlingen is located on the German Framework Road and is one of the few towns where storks have never stopped nesting since time immemorial.

In the drawing, in addition to the storks, you can also see a sandpiper, a beautiful common tern (Sterna hirundo) and rare salmon from the Danube, or Huchen. 

 

Schwäbisch Hall, drawn in ink and graphite

This view of the half-timbered houses overlooking the Kocher river was made (starting from a photo I took years ago on the spot ) to test some new "extra fine" and "super fine" brush pens just bought. With the addition of some graphite blended with the paper stumps.

Schwäbisch Hall is a truly wonderful medieval town, located deep in the Baden Wuerttemberg between Stuttgart and Wuerzburg, on the banks of the Kocher River. Marvelous half-timbered houses, towers and covered wooden bridges characterize the entire historic center.

Monschau

Summer thunderstorm over the half-timbered village of Monschau (Eifel, Germany)

Fachwerk Lexikon - Lexicon of German Half-timbered Architecture

Hagenwil Castle, Swiss Fachwerk "Riegelbau"

FACHWERK GLOSSAR – GLOSSARY OF GERMAN HALF-TIMBERED ARCHITECTURE

1; Sparren

2; (Quer-) Riegel

3; Diagonale Streben (Mannfigur)

4; Schwellen

5; Rähm

6; Ständer (Eckständer)

7; Fenstererker

8; Andreaskreuz

9; Gefach/Ausfachung

10; Schnitzdekorationen

11; Fensterständer

12; Gebälk E.G.

13; Geschweiftes Andreaskreuz

14; Inschriftlicher Dekor

15; Brüstungsgefach

16; Geschweiftes Holz

17; Kopfwinkelholz 

The drawing with some of my bibliographic sources

A photo of the beautiful Palm’sches Haus, in Mosbach, 1610

Here is my article (text, illustrations and photos) on the German half-timbered houses published on "Borghi Magazine"

Monschau