WALKED from Bad Wiessee to Gmund yesterday afternoon, taking advantage of bright sunshine before the sky clouded over later in the afternoon.
Gmund has a chapel from 1634 with a mural on the outside depicting two angels along with the words: EHRE DEN OPFERN MAHNUNG DEN LEBENDEN, which roughly translates as: Honour the victims - Exhortation to the living.
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| The 1634 chapel - renovated from 1988-91 |
The window has an Iron Cross with the year 1914 on it, and below the cross an iconic stahlhelm helmet, which started replacing the pickelhaube in the German army in 1916.
Near to the chapel is a fountain, dated 1894, with a soldier equipped in a style I associate with the 16th century at the latest, and probably from quite some time before that.
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| The soldierly fountain |
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| Close-up of the soldier |
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