E is for Eine Erzgebirge Stadt!

These have been sitting in Picasa since the summer of '17, waiting for me do something with them, and this would seem to be a good point to get them out and have a look at them in public! Shot on Adrian's stall at Sandown Park in the May of that year, they are a rather nice set of probably inter-war erzgebirge buildings.

A large hunter's or 'foresters' lodge, this is just the sort of place we used to stop for a glass or two of ice cold appfelsaft, wending our way around the Black-Forest and Donautal as kids. The ones now turned into tourist traps tend to have fancy veranda's, balconies, and summer seating off to the side of the car park, but the building underneath is often like this, although usually with lower-angled roofs for the snow to sit on, maybe this is more typical of the Erzgebirge Mountain region?

This is slightly different to the onion tower churches I remember from the South as well. One of the first bits of German I ever learned; zwiebelturm, another was bummelzug! But my proper first German word was Umleitung!

I didn't take very good pictures of this, but I think it says 'something'-Gasthhof on the side, so like an old coaching-inn? A big pub! And at least it doesn't have cows downstairs; our local in Neuhausen smelt so bad when you first climbed the open-riser 'ladder' stairs to the bar, you needed three Phauenbrau before the odours slipped-away to join the paprika roast-chicken and real-fire smells in general background warmth, then the egg-nog came out!

This has had labels applied to suggest a Hospital, but as the others have all their details stamp-printed over the paint, I suspect the labels have been added by an owner and it was originally meant to be a farmhouse or something? Size wise these are all ideal for war-gaming in the 10-15mm scales.