Every picture tells a story, season 3, picture 13:
Let's have a game of "Where is Wally?" Below is Werner, the youngest of the Hamborn brotherhood, on the day of his confirmation, which happened at the Lutherkirche, Obermarxloh (which was part of the city of Hamborn while it existed - even if today the church stands in Röttgersbach) in 1951. Funnily enough, everybody else is there too. Catholics tend to get individual portrait of each kid with a candle (eg young Willy here) - protestants get the group photo. Wonder if that's just protestant penny-pinching? Or an emphasis on being admitted to the faith community, versus an emphasis on personal enlightenment? In any case, I shouldn't moan because I love this group photo with the low light and the crumbling classicistic church (built 1913, restored in the 1950s, listed monument since 2012) as the background:
To make it easier, I offer you another group photo, this one is from Werner's school a couple of years earlier, and he is marked with a pen.
Foto-Kempken
Duisburg-Hamborn
Alleestra&szllig;e 93
18. Mai 1949
NB I have now created a Hamborn tag.
Should anybody have any answers to some of the many questions I am raising in this series, please leave a comment here (I'll need to vet it, so it may take a few days before it goes public) or contact me at michaelgrr [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk
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Season 3 so far:
- family holiday
- play time
- fashion show
- bakery to butcher's shop
- the Hamborn brotherhood
- all grown up
- sisters in the snow
- the last holiday
- village life
- family reshuffle
- push bike
- mystery trio
- confirmation at Hamborn
The Mastodon thread for season 3 is here.
You can find Season 2 entries in this thread on Mastodon (complete now!) or via the list at the bottom of the last entry of the season (and also at the bottom of the first entry of this season).
The twitter thread for season 1 is still here. Alternatively, visit the last instalment and find the numbered list of entries at the bottom.
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