It's this kind of detail that gives local flavor to a place.

I passed one of many autobahnkirchen on the way to the airport this morning. It was this one, on the A5 in Baden-Baden: http://www.3d-autobahnkirche.de/index_e.html. Here is another website, in German: http://www.autobahnkirchen.de/html/baden-baden.html.

It's a fairly modern-looking church.

http://www.autobahnkirchen.de/karte.html has a map of all the autobahnkirchen and autobahnkapellen.

A church in the rest area of the freeway. Why not? There are chapels in airports, after all.

We've got quite a winter wonderland out here.

It's been snowing since last night, lightly but steadily. It was around 25F this morning, and a couple of inches have accumulated already.

Snow removal in Germany is okay overall. What I mean by that is that it's quite good on the major roads and highways, and it sucks on the minor roads. For example, the autobahn is mostly just wet right now, and plows go through before more than a light coating covers the road. On the other hand, the street we live on hasn't been plowed yet, and it's been snowing for over twelve hours.