Plenty of Nothing

Sylvester (1924)

Lupu Pick's 1924 film Sylvester takes place on New Year's Eve, or Sylvester as they call it in Germany. Source.

Dragon's Teeth

Moss-covered tank obstacles near Saarbrücken, a remnant of the Seigfried Line. Source.

Spatenbräu

I once purchased an Octoberfest-scale beer stein just because it had this attractive logo on it. It's the trademark of the Munich brewery Spatenbräu and was designed in 1884 by Otto Hupp, an artist who specialized in 16th-century German heraldry. That shovel really looks like it was drawn by Albrecht Dürer or one of his contemporaries. The GS stands for Gabriel Sedlmayr who bought the medieval brewery in 1807 and started it down the road to lager supremacy. Check out Hupp's series of Kaffee HAG albums here.

Walhalla

Commissioned by Ludwig I and opened in 1842, this copy of the Parthenon is located near Regensburg, Bavaria and contains busts of exemplary Germans. Compare the one in Nashville. Source.

View from Wilhelmshöhe Castle towards Cassel through the Archway

Aussicht vom Schloss Wilhelmshöhe gegen Cassel durch den Torbogen (1810) by Johann Heinrich B. Bleuler. Source.

Sauerbraten from Saarbrücken

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Fünf Rentenmark

Rentenmark were issued in November 1923 to put a brake on Germany's hyperinflation. Instead of being backed by gold (which Germany was out of) the rentenmark was backed by land. Though replaced by the Reichsmark in 1924 the Rentenmark was legal tender until 1948. Source.

Ledenhof, Osnabrück

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1936 Schlörwagen

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The Diet of Worms

The Diet of Worms opened on this day in 1521. Source.