ATOMIC BOMBING by the US

Battleships Yamato & Prince of Wales

Canada 2012

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    Ski Tour to Canada and Accidental Tour to Korea

Josei Touring 2011 Summer

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    城西自動車学校のツーリングクラブの写真です。2011年7月17日行き先は面河。

Rio

  • Dal

Birthday Party

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    50th Birthday Party 50歳の誕生日をネットの仲間が祝ってくれました。我が家でバーベキューをしています。

Alsace

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    2010春 次女とフライブルクから日帰り旅行 詰め込んでます。少しずつ整理してゆきます。

South Korea 2009

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    2009年3月長女のEriと韓国旅行をしました。僕の目的は板門店、Eriの目的はソウル観光。

My House

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    http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2008/05/my-garden-won-t.html

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Apr 02, 2010

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Thank you, Mr/Ms. Gerrit Ulrichs.

I understand what the deer means.

By the way, judging from the suffix of your e-mail address, do you live in Germany? I'm thinking of visiting Germany again. I've been to Freiburg twice and I'd like to see around the northern Germany next time.

The deer is not a god, it is a crest. It stands symbolically for the family or clan that owned the castle and the land around for a certain period of time. The deer is the crest of the Hohenzollern and the hind the crest of the Tierstein (which is exactly the one locatetd above the entrance). On other places inside the castle you find crests of eagles that come from the Staufer era. The hunting trophies of deers are simply explained by the fact that on the one hand the deer is a symbol for the crest and on the other hand that deers are the calssical prey in western Europe and hunting of deers was the aristocracies privilege what is one of the reasons you find a lot of hunting references in European heraldry.
I hope my test is not intrusive.

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