Bamboo masks at a stall at the medieval Christmas market in Siegburg.
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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As every year at the Christmas market on Cologne's Heumarkt, numerous wood carvings are on display once again.
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A characterful head
(seen in Herten-Westerholt (Ruhr area, Recklinghausen district)
(November 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Amazing things you can carve from a tree stump: here in St. Goarshausen on the Middle Rhine (Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate) with motifs from the town and surrounding area.
(September 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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In Winningen (Mayen-Koblenz district) on the Lower Moselle, there is a tradition of the ‘wine witch’. In this scene at a house in Winningen, the flute player Pfeifenhans overpowers the witch, who had helped herself to the best wine. The legend originated after the witch hunts in Winningen (and elsewhere) in the 17th century. Nowadays, a wine witch is elected every year alongside a wine queen.
(August 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Wooden figures prepare to cut wood with a wooden chainsaw (art objects in Cologne-Stammheim Castle Park)
(July 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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A tree has been turned into a ‘tree guardian’.
(May 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The figures of the Hillesheim market women in Hillesheim (Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate). The figures of the Hillesheim market women in Hillesheim (Vulkaneifel, Rhineland-Palatinate).
There used to be important cattle and produce markets in Hillesheim.
(February 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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The fictional character of ‘Malus Sinistrius’ in the village of Stadt Blankenberg (Hennef municipality, Rhein-Sieg district), a magician who allegedly (according to an adventure game for children) wants to bewitch the town into the fog of oblivion.
(February 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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Even a tree stump can still be turned into something: in addition to carvings, there is also an invitation to the local football club 1.FC Köln ‘to do it’, namely to get back into the first division.
(January 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
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