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Tag: Germany

  • Hartmut’s Bench

    On 30th December 2016 I went for a hike to Tegernsee. The weather was beautiful, I planed to go for one of the favorite short tracks, have a walk of about 1 hour and enjoy a Weißbeer on the Neureuth Terrace. When I arrived there, it was crowded like hell, so I decided to walk…

  • Autumn in Rheinhessen

    Here is another bench from Mike. It’s autumn in Germany and this bench is located in the county of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinhessen). …and as you can see from the view over the wine yards with its colored leaves, this is one of the great wine areas of Germany.

  • Kaltenberg Knights Festival

    Every year in July there is a medieval festival in Kaltenberg, hosted by the local brewery. Thousands of visitors – mainly parents with kids – come and enjoy a day in a Middle Age, eating and drinking and watching the epic fight of “good and bad”. http://www.ritterturnier.de/ New since this year: Right at the entrance…

  • Art for the National Park Berchtesgaden

    It is the “Day of Pokemon Go” and being (still) very fond of Poke hunting we go for a stroll after dinner to increase our levels. All of sudden I found it – still in front of the craft shop: The ultimate bench: * Hand crafted by one of the local artists (in Berchtesgaden there…

  • City Center Berchtesgarden

    This bench can be found in front of the city hall in Berchtesgarden. Quite comfortable with the “build-in” table.

  • Kramerplateau Addition

    I went again to the Kramerplateau trail and realized that we missed the one or the other bench in the last post. First of all, there was a new bench build. A dedication to Erika with some wisdom of Winnie the Pooh.   Then I also realized that there were a couple of bird houses which were…

  • Cochem Mosel

    We got a new bencher on board. Welcome Mike. Mike has sent this nice roundabout bench. The tree in the middle is giving the back rest for all sitting on the bench. The bench is located in a wild garden above the beautiful city Cochem at the river Mosel. Cochem is known for its Castle and…

  • Helmut 2008

    A walk in the park on a sunny Sunday afternoon. We were taking the tour from St. Emmerams Mill to Schwabing crossing the northern part of the English Garden in Munich. Beautiful weather, sunshine, 28 C. When we wanted to enjoy a bit the park life and rest on a bench we picked one accidently. Well, as…

  • BBB – Bavarian Busstop Bench

    On a Sunday afternoon walk south of Munich, close to Holzkirchen we found this very basic bench. A tree trunk with a plank on it in front of an obviously newly build wooden fence. In fact it turned out that it is a bus-stop-bench for school kids. Could well be that the owner of the…

  • Jas Hill in Otterfing

    When visiting our good friend Jutta in Holzkirchen (south of Munich) we went for a short walk around the Jags Hill (she insisted on only 30 min 😉 ) we passed by this bench. A very nice scenery with the little church in the back, the meadow with yellow flowers and the blooming cherry trees.…

  • Dukes fish farm benches

    There is another great place in the Bavarian Alps which is called Wildbad Kreuth. As the name indicates it was originally a Spa. Pretty famous in its best times. Build by Maximilian I. King of Bavaria, visited by Emperors and Russian Tsars, today owned by the Dukes of Bavaria. Close to this place there is the Dukes…

  • “Women Island” in Chiemsee

    This picture was taken in December 2016 on the Fraueninsel, a very small island in the Chiemsee (also known as the  Bavarian Sea), a lake in the very south of Germany – almost kissing Austria. We were visiting a Christmas market set on this tiny island of 300 inhabitants, spread over a width of 300 meter…

  • Kochelsee Picnic bench

    This bench is just waiting for visitors who like to rest for a picnic with a beautiful view on the lake of Kochel. It was too cold that day in March 2016, but the view was very nice on the Bavarian pre-alp landscape.  

  • Badbank

    Another great contribution from Kille. I guess we need to sort this bench under the exception benches since the definition does not work for the first criteria, “comfortable seating”. Nevertheless, the bench has more than deserved to show up here. For sure the first criteria has applied in the past and the view has some mystery.…

  • Laubbank at 51.999522 / 9.252539

    Another extraordinary contribution from a new bencher. When telling my good old friend Kille (Friedrich-Wilhelm Reineke in real life) from the bench blog, the enthusiasm was nordic-exited. This was back when the Alp de Siusi bench-series was born. Not much reaction since then. However, the topic came up again when he visited Munich in March…

  • Chaiselongue am Alatsee

    It seems that it became too dangerous for our bench-war-correspondent to continue the investigation on the unknown bench builder(s) along the S6 in Munich. So Karoline took a break to relax from the dangerous and exhaustive detective work and she found a bench which truly invites for a relaxing break – the one and only…

  • Alongside S6 – The Saga continues I

    Bench No. 4 from the “Alongside S6 Munich” is history, long live No. 5. Got these days an update from Karoline. Bench No. 4 seemed to be destroyed or dismantled. Very, very unclear situation. Could well be that the original builder of the bench No. 4 just dismantled it – might be he was not…

  • Alongside S6 Munich

    The following series is a “donation” from my dear colleague Karoline. The story is a weird and strange one but I believe it is true as Karoline is not a person who makes things up. So, here is the story: she told me that she is doing here jogging exercise regularly alongside the S6. That…

  • Highgladly (Hochgern)

    Hiking in the Bavarian Alps is a challenging exercise for a bencher. There are so many benches on the way up to the hill. You can’t post them all. You need to make choices. Select which ones gonna make it to the blog. Which ones do have it, comfort and view and/or something special. Roughly on half way…

  • Easter Lakes (Osterseen) – Ivy bench

    South of Munich there are a couple of lakes. A bit further south of the famous Starnberger Lake you can find the Osterseen (Easter Lakes). This is a moor area with more than 20 small lakes, created during the last ice age when the glaciers were melting (well, unfortunately they still are melting) Every now and then you…