These are the small houses bordering the small harbor
Notice the intricate (especially for medieval times) patterns in the masonry and the woodwork with it
The small (and medieval shipping vessel style) boat in the small harbor with the small houses bordering it
The small harbor. You can see my teacher on the deck (on the left) taking a picture of us.
Black Brick was the most expensive building material in the middle ages. If your house was built of it your were very wealthy. Incidentally, this person, in the middle ages, had his house constructed of regular bricks and then had them painted black.
Another woodwork-masonry integration. Also, notice the stone bordering the curvature doorway near the mid-bottom. It was made to look like a large rope on a ship hence the name rope stone. If you had this on your house you were affiliated with the sea in some way. Many houses then had symbolism on them, especially in that era.
I couldn't resist :) Cool huh?
This is a picture of one of two manual human hamster wheels inside of a medieval crane. The people who worked on or in them ran on the wheels in 3-4 hour shifts without a break and a foreman like guy stood at the front which was facing the outside and would shout instructions to the runners like "faster!" "slower!" "stop!" etc all in German of course.
Cool buildings. Notice the stair step design on the roof of the second-to-left building. The more you had on your place of residence, the wealthier you were... again, building symbolism.
Two different pictures of the town hall (rathaus). Obviously it is very decorative and ornate. If you look closely you can see a fountain in front which was a meeting place for that day.
Once again, the stair step.
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