Houses Part Deux

Continuing on the housing theme, I put this picture in a separate post in hopes that you can actually double- click on the picture to see a larger image. Try it....if it works then great. If not, well ...sorry bout that.


This house is in the village of Eguisheim. Written above the windows in local dialect it says "this house stands in God's hands. God beware for fire". I believe this house was built around 1600, when Alsace was still loosely linked with the Germanic states. I point this out because you've probably noticed that the writing is not French.

This is the window above the ground floor. Typically, this is where the family would live and the lower floor might be occupied by the family business. If you look you can also see some decorative carving of the beams.