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Way up in the air

…aren’t just the emotions after the World Cup victory, but it’s also this week’s topic at Pabuca.

Let’s start with maypole and modern lamps at the main square:

Maibaum und Lampe IMG_5088

Remains of old external goods hoists are visible in several places, though mostly just by doors in the walls:

Haken in Scheyerer Str IMG_5092

One from the archive, because it would be hard to order a hot-air balloon, get back into my former apartment, and let the balloon fly just such that it’s visible between typical gables and the biomass heating plant’s chimney:

Heißluftballon IMG_7598

Vastness

New topic at Pabuca is “Vastness”…

A vast amount of water flooded the vast main square and the surrounding city – luckily only on this small bronze model:

Bronzemodell nass IMG_0698

A vast amount of sleepers connects a vast length of rails that can take you to the vast world. Though not with these ICE-T or ICE-3 or the other types, because these only pass through (except in case of some breakdowns):

2 ICEs im Bahnhof PAF copy

The support structure for the new roof of our ice rink has to span quite some distance, too:

Eisstadion IMG_5077 copy

Bridges

What else could it be than another Pabuca topic?

Now a small town like Pfaffenhofen doesn’t have that impressive bridges, so we’re starting small here – with a little thing to an auxiliary platform that was1 necessary because of construction works further south on this track:

bahnsteig

Across the little river Ilm, there once was a makeshift pedestrian bridge which should be used only one person at a time:

behelf

Nearby, by the way, a bridge was once torn down with spears! Well, at least a sign said so, misspelling “gesperrt” (closed, barred) as “gespeert” (speared). :)

We can do a bit bigger (and more durable), too – this bridge is part of the school center:

gymnasium

  1. yes, these are photos from the archive… ↺

“Speed”

“Speed” is the current topic at Pabuca – well, here’s rather the absence thereof…

I met this not really fast fellow yesterday:

Schnecke auf Stange IMG_0648

Here you see the remainders of the speedway track around the football ground – boards and slopes are already gone. In order to make room for the small horticultural show 2017, for which also this football ground and the other training grounds in the back will be moved a little. On one hand, it’s a pity for the drivers, but on the other hand it’s very good because, well, I always considered it strange whenever an official or some politicians were proud of having such a noisy sport almost in the middle of the town – “delighting” the entire town with the noise on many a weekend.

Speedway-Bahn IMG_0643

The innermost city center isn’t made for fast drivers:

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