In July we reported on the plans to rebuild one of the towers of the old city wall in Schweinfurt. Now, not only are there signs that the project will be approved by the building authorities, but that the city of Schweinfurt itself will also be taking over the project as a property developer.

We were at the camping fair in Erfurt for the first time when we were made aware of the interesting poster for the art fair in Erfurt, the artthuer. There has been a cooperation with Messe Erfurt since its tenth edition, in particular with Haus.Bau.Ambiente. Fair, also a regional fair for home builders and interior design.

In many bazaars on the Turkish Riviera you will find stalls or even small workshops that offer their figurines and vases made of onyx marble, which unfortunately are rarely made by themselves.

As a further highlight during our visit to Halle, Detlef had also planned a stop in Meissen at the Porzellan Manufaktur before the short visit to Dresden.

Seating furniture became popular in ancient times, roughly speaking and documented after the Neolithic Revolution. Originally, people sat on the bare ground, on rocks or on fallen tree trunks; in colder regions, animal skins were laid underneath, mats were woven, blankets were woven or carpets were knotted.

During our explorations in the Weimar and Jena region, we came across traces of the "Bauhaus" that is so well-known in architecture, but were then surprised to find an offshoot of this well-known training and further education center in Dornburg.

We were on our way from Roßleben-Wiehe to the small street village of Garnbach in the Kyffhäuserkreis in Thuringia, which despite its only about 200 inhabitants has a certain degree of popularity, because, as we were told, this is a regional stronghold of the art of wood carving.

Since people settled, there have always been certain conditions for settlement, to which the availability of drinking water also contributed a large proportion.

The latest high-tech TVs, which, in addition to brilliant Dolby Surround, are now increasingly focusing on 3D visualizations with some surprising effects are getting into privacy more and more.

Once again on the road in Erfurt, we not only had the surprisingly announced large-scale demonstration against increasing right-wing populism and the resulting violence on our screen

As an impulsive opponent of the "straight line" and any standardization and typification in the environment, which is especially significant in his work in the field of architecture and construction, Friedensreich Hundertwasser distinguished itself by its imaginative vitality and individuality.

Lucas Cranach the Elder was one of the most important German painters, graphic artists and book printers of the Renaissance. Cranach, born in Franconia, had lived in Vienna for some time when the Wittenberg Elector Frederick the Wise brought the artist to the provincial town of Wittenberg.

Already several years ago, we had written a small, first article about the photographs of Ahmet Arpad, which had been shown with his motto "Man-made landscapes" in Göppingen and Geislingen.

Who, dear readers, has not even discussed the topic of street art, graffiti or even the partial art form with pure facade smearing with friends or neighbors, so widespread has this phenomenon spread in recent decades.

Among the first mosaics in the Greek world are the so-called pebble mosaics, which consist of selected creek pebbles, often dominated by the colors black and white. A world-famous example of this is the mosaic showing Dionysus on a panther in the capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia (first Aigai then Pella) from the period 330-310 BC.

The Caravan-Salon in Düsseldorf once again showed the modern design of the camping equipment, which should be distinguished from normal day-to-day dishes for reasons of weight.

Our explorations within the framework of the project work of a route to the south allows us to meet again and again with the work of the so-called street art or graffiti artists, which are often so controversially discussed.

Although the composition of the individual fairs seemed somewhat surprising at first, the overall impression of the Thessalonica fair was getting more clear. The separate halls in the huge exhibition grounds under the radio tower played a considerable part in this.

We went to the Avanos Carpet shop in order to obtain detailed information about the art of carpet weaving that during my school ages, I have woven in miniature and quite plain one and I remember how much time it requires.

Carpet weaving craft, whose miniature I had woven during my school time in a very simple way and I still remember how much time it had taken, has been able to maintain its existence until today.