You only see what you know (Goethe)
Beware of the dashing garçon! I saw this – probably unofficial – traffic sign in Hallstatt next to the famous Hallstatt Lake. It makes people aware of waitstaff crossing the street. A local restaurant and its open-air seating area occupy different sides of the lane.
You find this house sign on a Renaissance building in Erfurt, generally known as the Haus zum Stockfisch (House to the Stockfish). Today, the building hosts the municipal museum of Erfurt. [German]
Opposite my hotel in the German city of Koblenz, I came across this ghost sign covering the front wall of a building. In earlier times, it promoted soap flakes known as LUX Seifenflocken.
This relief displaying a laurel tree and two men is fixed on a 16th-century building with the address Herrenstraße 2 in Naumburg (Saale). The edifice accommodates a pharmacy named Lorbeerbaum Apotheke (Laurel Tree Pharmacy).
This shop sign at the Bürstenmacherei Steinbrück in Naumburg (Saale) shows the main products of a German Bürstenbinder (brush-maker). Inside the shop, interested people can buy traditionally manufactured brushes.
Inn sign and wall painting of the Blue Scythe Inn (Gasthof zur Blauen Sense) in Windischgarsten.
This huge mural promotes the shoe shop Eisinger (Eisinger Schuhhaus) located at the Brunngasse 11 in Poysdorf.
There are telling street name signs in Erfurt: Streets with red signs are located inside the former city walls, blue ones are outside. The Juri-Gagarin-Ring, named after a sucessful Russian cosmonaut, follows the route of the demolished city wall to a great extent.
You find this inn sign on a traditional restaurant in Salzburg. The name “Zum fidelen Affen” literally means “Merry Monkey”.
Shop sign of a hat shop in Linz. I’ve no idea why the faces are green but the green colour makes the sign even more remarkable. The decoration on the right side is part of the Christmas decoration 2014.
Stadtschrift, an association for the collection, preservation and documentation of historic facade signs created this open air exhibition at a fire wall in Vienna. I love the idea to show them in public instead of a presentation inside a hall. So we can see these signs in a way we used to do on our walks to school or job in earlier times.
Shop sign of a furniture shop and interior decorator in Linz. Love the way how the creator of this sign describes the service of this shop.