Handy Fotos Der Woche

Week in Photos 142

January 25, 2026

We enjoyed a Sunday walk down to the Freisinger Stadtmuseum to start the week.

This bear, approximately three feet tall, was carved from a spruce tree trunk from the Steiermark, and was a gift from the city of Oberwölz for the Korbinian Jubiläum in 2024.
January 18, 2026

Some footage of ski jumping in Freising in 1925. More like home movies than an actual film. Still crazy someone took them and some other ones kept them long enough for them to be digitized.
January 18, 2026

The highlight of/reason for the museum visit was an 8-foot wide 20th-century Weihnachtskrippe based on real buildings in Freising. The clothes are so tiny!
January 18, 2026

No one under 18 is legally allowed in the weed shop, but they can still market to kids through the front window…
January 18, 2026

Anyway.

I was ready to turn around if it was too icy, but someone laid a layer of gravel. Excellent.
January 21, 2026

Sometimes you just gotta have *Serviettenknödel*.
January 21, 2026

Thursday the high was -7°C (17°F) but that did not stop the Original Münchner Schäfflertanz from performing their traditional program here in Freising. A Schäffler is a cooper, or barrel maker, one of the medieval handwork specialties that was regulated under the guild system back in the day. In 1517, after Munich had a round of plague, people were still scared to leave their houses, so the barrel makers’ guild danced through the streets to show everyone it was safe.

They performed the dance periodically for the next 250 years, then settled into a routine of dancing every seven years. The forms and uniforms were standardized in the 19th century, and have different meanings related to their history. You can read all that on their website. The last outing will be on Faschingsdienstag (Mardi Gras/Shrove Tuesday) in Munich. If you have ever seen the Glockenspiel in the Munich Rathaus, some of the figures are Schäffler.

The entrance march is the Bayerischer Defiliermarsch, composed around 1850 by Adolf Scherzer in Ingolstadt, Bavaria.