Thursday Doors: Door of Books, Monastery Hill Bindery

The awesome Norm at Norm 2.0 has a fun weekly feature where he invites fellow bloggers to share unique doors we happen to find on our travels.

I literally stumbled upon the door you see in the above photo.  I hadn’t planned on walking in this particular area.  However, I decided to go a little bit farther on my walk when I saw this incredibly interesting door.

At first I thought, gee, this is an interesting poster of books set against the door.  However, after doing some research I discovered this building houses the “Monastery Hill Bindery” (I do believe the books are real)!

Ernst Hertzberg was a young child in Germany in the mid-1800’s when he used to play among the ruins of an old monastery.  Interested in the book binding and scribing that used to take place at the monastery, Ernst pursued bookbinding as a career.

When he…