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🇺🇦Gerda M
October 20, 2024
Cycling
Napoleon's bench
In many places in the Palatinate, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Alsace you can find these somewhat outdated sandstone benches. They are located on streets or paths, on former postal routes, on mountain passes, by streams, by lakes, in clearings, under trees, at high crosses, etc. ... This is a "seating and storage furniture" made to place a load that was carried on the head or back on the higher surfaces (lintel or widened capital) and to rest on the bench next to it or underneath it.
In many places in the Palatinate, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Alsace you can find these somewhat outdated sandstone benches. They are located on streets or paths, on former postal routes, on mountain passes, by streams, by lakes, in clearings, under trees, at high crosses, etc. ... This is a "seating and storage furniture" made to place a load that was carried on the head or back on the higher surfaces (lintel or widened capital) and to rest on the bench next to it or underneath it.
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•🇺🇦Gerda M
October 20, 2024
Cycling
The benches, which were named after Napoleon Bonaparte (*15.08.1769 - }†05.05.1821), are slightly different from the resting stones, but serve the same purpose: to comfortably rest the head load and …
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