Heidelberg

The first thing I saw upon leaving the train station in Heidelberg was the ultra-modern, glass and steel of the Print Media Academy. In front of this building is the worlds largest equine sculpture, created by sculptor Jürgen Goertz. The work, made of stainless steel and aluminum, is 13 meters high, 15 meters long, four meters wide and weighs 90 tons. It is known as the "S-Printing Horse", a play on words alluding to both "sprinting" and "printing".

As soon as I jumped on the bus and started towards Alstadt (Old Town), it was not city blocks that we were passing but years. I can't really explain the feeling I had standing on the streets in Heidelberg other then it was a mixture of awe and reverence. This is such a beautiful, very old city and even with all the tourist around me, I felt like the city had just wrapped itself around me and drew me close.

Everywhere you look in this city such above, below and around doors and windows, on the walls and the tops of buildings and in the squares are incredible sculptures made from sandstone, quarried stone or wood. I could have spent a week doing nothing but studying and photographing this magnificent art form.