Alpine village

LJ user writes antoneo: Oberammergau - a small alpine village attracted us with its fabulous painted facades. Just a few narrow streets, but every house like a work of art. All murals are painted a very high quality, worked out shadows and contours. It seems as if the house really decorated columns, shutters and other decorative elements. Basically this traditional Bavarian ornaments, scenes from fairy tales or religious motives.



Inspection starts from the beginning of the village and we move deeper into the - to the most interesting:



The hamlet is located in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, near Munich:



At first glance, there is nothing unusual.



But it is necessary to turn the corner as there are first frescoes. Stared at, at first did not believe that all drawn:



The closer to the center - the more interesting:



Instead of ugly signs - a beautiful painting:





One of the main themes of painting - fairy-tale motifs. Here, for example, is easy to guess the story of Little Red Riding Hood:





And here is very similar to the Bremen Town Musicians:





Just a common residential apartment buildings:





But apart from painted houses here just really nice:







In the late 18th century, there lived a local doctor, who ordered the painting of his house following the fashion of those times. Now it is a residential apartment building:





A plaque on the house says that there lived a German writer Ludwig Thoma.



The oldest hotel in the city. It was built in 1612. and up to the present time belongs to the descendants of the family itself:



The second theme of the paintings - Bible stories:





















In fact, such a painting can be found in many cities throughout Bavaria, but here is focused concentration everything beautiful.

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