This first photo is dated Summer 1941. You’ll likely notice the soldier there walking beside the horse in his German infantry uniform. If you enlarge the photo, there is another soldier standing on the left side in front of the wagon.
I think (but it’s rather hard to tell) that the soldier on the ladder in this photo is the soldier which we barely notice in the photo above…and the woman on the ladder is the one who is standing next to him (I think…).
We haven’t figured out exactly what they are hanging there but we figure it is tobacco since it was war time then and that was quite scarce.
Here are Anna & Wilhelm sitting in front of what was then the wood & coal storage room. When we bought the house it was a chicken coop and now we’ve taken off the fencing and are planning to make a covered patio here. It won’t be huge but we’ll build some sofas for a nice seating area and hope to eventually have speakers out there and so on. The shelf at head level will be reconstructed as well. Apparently they have had a shelf up there for a very long time so we feel it should remain that way. We took the one down there with the rest of the chicken infused fencing but will build a new one, perhaps wide enough to sit under if we find some high enough stools…
And this is a photo of the old well that we’ve mentioned a few times before (notably here). As you can see, it wasn’t much more than a hand pump although we’d like to have something a bit more substantial should they decide to put it back in operation.
Behind the geese is the neighbor’s house across the street. You probably wouldn’t recognize it, though because they have a new fence and gate, the brick wall is gone and was replaced by another fence, they’ve built a covered entryway (they’re not restricted by “denkmalschutz” (historical protection), built a garage and have exposed the timber frames. The house still does look nice but just not original which is what sorta gets to us.
In case you missed the others…
Even more old photos…
More old photos – then & now
Something we inherited with the house…
