13-22 deg C, sunny with a few clouds, and a light breeze
Walk G: 11km; total: 513km
Walk W: 7km; total: 443km
After breakfast we wandered back into town and while Greg visited the Botanical Gardens, Wendy went home via the old town route. The Town Hall was bathed in sunshine today but had construction vehicles and other stuff in front of it, so couldn’t be captured in all its glory. More fountains and churches, and backs of churches were captured before heading back to the room for mornos and more hotel research. Greg had a great wander through the gardens which are built around two disused quarries. A lot of the cold sensitive trees are growing in large pots so they can be taken indoors when the snow and ice arrives later in the year.
He also visited the Art Museum, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, a former church. Interesting but not his cup of tea. “Spirits” was the focus, with topics such as pre-decessors and ancestors, passing on knowledge across generations, traditional craft techniques, trans-generational trauma, and learning together. This programme invites visitors to think about their own hidden ghosts and hauntings. Art can be a way of exploring them and a way of understanding and dealing with your own history. “Spirits” has multiple meanings; some aspects of the theme are easier to understand using your mind, others are more emotional. Both are equally important and should be passed onto others. The programme combines material and non-material phenomena, European and non-European perspectives, and old and new cultural techniques. Greg found the displays a bit light on.
He returned to the room for lunch and a rest.
We both went out after our rest to the old part of town again with Greg visiting the Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum in a part of Dom St Peter. He was super impressed with the treasures that the DOM had managed to preserve since the 13 and 14th centuries. Imagine how many wars had occurred since then and how the treasures would have been stored away and hidden from marauding armies.
A few more lane ways were explored and another couple of medieval gems discovered.
Wendy wandered home slowly, did some more research then started blogging.
Town Hall
Citizens’ Fountain
Depicting scenes from the city’s 1,200-year history and is constructed from 1,200 individual parts
Citizens’ fountain with St Mary’s spire in the background
St Mary’s spire
The back of St Mary’s
Lovely old building, called Little Church, next to St Peter’s
St Peter’s from the side
Fountain of tears
Botanical Gardens
Art Museum
The path was sand while the floor was covered in fine shells which crushed when they were walked on
Don’t know what this was all about, like a series of comic book pages??
These were supposed to represent sundials
The Pump Well - street sculpture, better than anything that was in the art gallery
Treasury and Diocesan Museum
A lot of these items were from the 13 & 14th century
Some more medieval buildings
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