#Holzschnitzereien

Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-09-29
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-09-09
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-07-31
Wooden figures prepare to cut wood with a wooden chainsaw (art objects in Cologne-Stammheim Castle Park)
(July 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Kunst, #art, #Figuren, #figures, #Stammheimer_Schloßpark, #Köln
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-05-01
A tree has been turned into a ‘tree guardian’.
(May 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Kunst, #art
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-02-20
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-02-18
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)
#Figuren, #statues, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Stadt_Blankenberg, #Hennef, #Sieg
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2025-01-08
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-12-01
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-11-23
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-11-09
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-11-09
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-10-30
"Homo badensis" statue at the harbour of Carolinensiel (Wittmund municipality, Lower Saxony).
(September 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Figuren, statues, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Carolinensiel, #Wittmund, #Niedersachsen
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-10-05
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-10-04
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-09-16
A modern Neptun ? (in the harbour of Leer/ Ostfriesland (Niedersachsen)
(September 2024)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Kunst, #art, #Holzschnitzereien, #wood_carvings, #Leer, #Ostfriesland, #Niedersachsen
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-08-30
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-06-14
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-05-28
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-03-14
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
Rüdiger Benninghaus1Sauerlaender@pixelfed.social
2024-02-02
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

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