Doors, Gates, and Entrances

“Day of the Open Monument”: everywhere doors opened which are normally closed. We visited the church of Mauern to view a crucifix from around 900 AD. I’m no art historian, but I doubt if the large cross in the Mauern church was much older than 1900 AD. Looking again at our papers, we saw our stop should have been Enghausen, a part of Mauern, and a few miles away... We left Mauern with this photo, and no regret.

In post-production, the photographer had to work hard on this door, but was rewarded...

The book carried by the angel refers to Ezekiel chapter 9: “Unehrenbiethigkeiten in den Hauß Gottes” (cases of irreverence in the house of God). The message seems to be that disrespectful behavior in the church will be punished the same way as the sins of Jerusalem’s population in Ezekiel’s vision. Not an agreeable prospect. Behind the door was a small baptistery.