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Salve, Constantia
July 23, 2010
Dorothee Lang is a writer, web freelancer, traveller, gardener, and the editor of BluePrintReview. She lives in Germany, and currently is into skies, microformats, transitions and visuals. Recent publications include elimae, Nanoism, The, Wheelhouse and others. For more about her, visit her at blueprint21.de.
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Dorothee Lang
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This is a wonderful photo! I’d like to know the story behind it
Me too. amazing image. I want to live there. But then, how does one live on the inside of something like that?
:-)
Thanks for your lines and questions. I came across this building on a short trip to Lake Constance, at the Southern border of Germany. There’s a town there “Konstanz” – the history of the town reaches back to Roman times, back then, the settlement was named Constantia. If you look closely, you can spot the traditional Roman greeting “Salve” on the left.
That was about as much as i knew when i took the photo. Back home, i looked up the details: the building is the town hall, which was richly painted with historic scenes, like some other houses in the town centre of Konstanz. The facades are partly restored, and the windows renovated in a very modern way. The house is still used as town hall today.
The colors are beautiful…