Thursday, October 28, 2010

Kirmis

A few weeks back, we had Kirmis in Herford.  Sounds religious, doesn’t it??  It’s actually something like a county fair, with rides, cotton candy, shooting galleries, arts and crafts…

One photo I like is this:

Offeneinkauf Sonntag and Kirmis 2010 249

The building in the background is the old postoffice (now a restaurant) and the fellow standing on the roof is Wittekind (or Widukind) who frequently destroyed Charlemagne’s troops until his miraculous conversion to Christianity….

As he stands high above the Rathausplatz,we can wonder if he really is a Jumper.

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