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Heylshof Doors


Heylshof Doors
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Copyright: Erin By (iGirl) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 116 W: 29 N: 112] (610)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-06-12
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Sony Cybershot DSC-P92
Exposure: f/2.8, 1/80 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-06-26 4:46
Viewed: 507
Points: 4
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This is the beautiful door at the front of the Heylshof Museum. The little boy is the son of the people who were showing me around Worms. He speaks fluent German, English, and French, and he is very good at figuring out which language a particular person understands. I think he is so lucky to grow up multilingual like that!

I looked this museum up on www.worms.de and here is some of the more interesting information:

The Heylshof Museum with its small park extends to where the bishop’s court and the Worms Imperial lodgings of the Middle Ages were once located. In 1521 when Emperor Karl V summoned Martin Luther to Worms, he stood before the Imperial Diet here.

Using parts of the walls found in the ground of today’s park, the world-famous setting of Luther’s trial has been reconstructed. Today a plaque marks the place where in 1521 Martin Luther refused to recant his writings before Emperor and Reich.

The Heylshof palace with its park-like gardens was built in 1884 on the grounds of the former imperial and bishop’s palace by Bluntschli for Baron Cornelius W von Heyl and his wife Sophie. It was designed as an “art house” to display the couple’s significant art collection. Following the death of his wife, Baron von Heyl instructed in his will that the house with its park and pieces of art should always be open to the general public.

In 1945, the building was burnt down, but nearly all the collection pieces had already been stored in a safe place. The house was rebuilt on a smaller scale for museum purposes, and since 1961 exhibitions have once again been on view.
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Those doors are so nicely carved. A work of art by a carpenter I expect. Nice to see that one handle is so shiney compared to the other one. Very good composition, and the little boy is so cute.

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  • logon Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 152 W: 10 N: 4] (1082)
  • [2006-09-08 10:22]

More beautiful and spontaneous shot!
Childrens are fantastic and more photogenic.

Good the composition and the tones.

Giuseppe.

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