Amazing things you can carve from a tree stump: here in St. Goarshausen on the Middle Rhine (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate) with motifs from the town and surrounding area.
(September 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Baumstumpf, #tree_stump, #Sankt_Goarshausen, #Mittelrhein, #Rheinland_Pfalz

In Winningen (Mayen-Koblenz district) on the Lower Moselle, there is a tradition of the ‘wine witch’. In this scene at a house in Winningen, the flute player Pfeifenhans overpowers the witch, who had helped herself to the best wine. The legend originated after the witch hunts in Winningen (and elsewhere) in the 17th century. Nowadays, a wine witch is elected every year alongside a wine queen.
(August 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Sagenfiguren, #legendary_figures, #Weinhex, #Winningen, #Untermosel, #Rheinland_Pfalz

Wooden figures prepare to cut wood with a wooden chainsaw (art objects in Cologne-Stammheim Castle Park)
(July 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A tree has been turned into a ‘tree guardian’.
(May 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Kunst, #art

The figures of the Hillesheim market women in Hillesheim (Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate). The figures of the Hillesheim market women in Hillesheim (Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate).
There used to be important cattle and produce markets in Hillesheim.
(February 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Figuren, #statues, #Hillesheimer_Marktweiber, #Hillesheim, #Vulkaneifel, #Rheinland_Pfalz

The fictional character of ‘Malus Sinistrius’ in the village of Stadt Blankenberg (Hennef municipality, Rhein-Sieg district), a magician who allegedly (according to an adventure game for children) wants to bewitch the town into the fog of oblivion.
(February 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Even a tree stump can still be turned into something: in addition to carvings, there is also an invitation to the local football club 1.FC Köln ‘to do it’, namely to get back into the first division.
(January 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Baumstumpf, #tree_stump

The spiral staircase, originally from a patrician house dating back to 1663, was installed in the district library in the south of Cologne called ‘Haus Balchem’. (November 2024) (Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus) #Architektur, #architecture, #Wendeltreppe, #Figuren, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Haus_Balchem, #Köln

Carving on tree stumps is apparently becoming more and more popular; owls are particularly common (at least in Cologne). (August 2011) (Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus) #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Baumstümpfe, #Eulen, #owls

Houses built against the town wall in Bacharach (Mainz-Bingen district, Rhineland-Palatinate).
(October 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Stadtmauern, #town_walls, #Architektur, #architecture, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Bacharach, #Rheinland_Pfalz

Encounter with a forest spirit in the Thurn Forest between Cologne and Bergisch Gladbach.
(November 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Wald, #forest, #Köln

"Homo badensis" statue at the harbour of Carolinensiel (Wittmund municipality, Lower Saxony).
(September 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Wood carvings in the mountain village of Vlkolínec (part of the town of Ružomberok) in the Great Fatra in northern Slovakia.
(September 2008)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Dorfansichten, #village_views, #Architektur, #architecture, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Kunst, #art, #Bildhauerei, #Vlkolínec, #UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site, #Ružomberok, #Slovakia, #Slowakei

Wood carvings in the mountain village of Vlkolínec (part of the town of Ružomberok) in the Great Fatra in northern Slovakia.
(September 2008)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Dorfansichten, #village_views, #Landschaften, #landscapes, #Große_Fatra, #Berge, #mountains, #Architektur, #architecture, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Vlkolínec, #UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site, #Ružomberok, #Slovakia, #Slowakei

A modern Neptun ? (in the harbour of Leer/ Ostfriesland (Niedersachsen)
(September 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A ‘character head’ on a half-timbered house in Braubach (Middle Rhine/ Rhineland-Palatinate).
(August 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Gesichter, #faces, #Braubach, #Mittelrhein, #Rheinland_Pfalz

Wood carvings (from a trunk) next to the Catholic church in Hamm/ Sieg (Altenkirchen district, Westerwald/ Rhineland-Palatinate).
(June 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Figure, #figures, #art

Fishing boats with wooden carvings (‘bangau’) on the east coast of Malaysia (Kg. Telok Mengkuang/ Sultanate of Pahang).
(February 1979)
(Foto scanned from slide: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Boote, #boats, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Malaysia

A wood carving in Grimmen (Western Pomerania) appears to depict a Slavic warrior.
(July 2020)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Figuren, #figures, #Grimmen, #Vorpommern

Another of the numerous benches in Erpel (Unkel municipality, Neuwied district, Rhineland-Palatinate) by the woodcarver and joiner Peter Eich.
This one is called Notenbank (sheet music bench), but Notenbank can also be a central bank - another play on words.
(January 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Bänke, #benches, #Möbel, #furnitures, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Wortspiele, #Erpel, #Unkel, #Kreis_Neuwied