CHAIR IN WESER

not even looking very derelict.
Thanking notowennewitt for hosting the Derelict Sunday Challenge.
The weather in the morning was not really bad at all, although bad weather had been forecasted. But we were lazy and our pace slow!
In the afternoon we walked into time to vote for the yes or no vote of the reopening of the harbour to the Weser.
Landgraf Carl (1654-1730) had founded the town around 1700. He also had had masterly plans, namely building a canal from the Weser to the Rhine (!), because after the war of 30 years, the land had been devastated, and he thought it high time to bring the land to new prospering and bloom and good commercial traffic would make that possible. An important harbour was part of his masterplan.
The building of the canal was stopped when the Landgraf had died in 1730. His son had other plans. At that time the "Solequellen", salt wells deep under the ground had been discovered by Jacques Galland and promised to be a much more lucratif project. Karlshafen became a town of salt.
51 % did vote for the reopening,. 48 % did object to it. We have just found out.

My haiku:

There I lie wet and
Left behind, does no one have
Consideration

And the proverb:

With a wet finger.

(= with the utmost ease)

1519  Horman, Vulg. f.  195.