Mid-century laundry.

Mid-century laundry.

Multiple Ms over Leipzig.

Multiple Ms over Leipzig.

Today’s neon sign comes with the added bonus of giant scissors.

Cursive elegance (plus a bonus Umlaut for your weekend).

Your weekend Umlauts: cursive and non-cursive.

Usher in the weekend with a neon goblet of wine.

…too late for cake.

From the heart of town.

Precautions against pigeons, part 2.

Precautions against pigeons.

In praise of electricity.

For the remainder of the week we will be searching for neon in and around Stuttgart.* *Maybe … if Deutsche Bahn wills it.

The red-orange glow.

On the air.

Today’s sign also features an early example of abstract neon art:

Weekend is over. Back to work.

Your weekend Umlaut: Upotheke.

Your weekend Umlaut: the lion of Fulda.

High voltage.

The ‘t’ in this sign surely deserves a place in the pantheon of convoluted neon letterforms.

Finest neon cigars.

…and at night.

Beer pairs well with neon. (Also: how great is that ‘f’…)

Have wanted to get a photo of this sign for the past three years. Last week it finally happened.

How about a close-up of that Umlaut:

Neon goes neo-classical (plus: a bonus weekend Umlaut).

We’re back … and we brought you a wonderful weekend Umlaut from Würzburg.

We’re on the road again for a few days … but we’ll be back soon with more great neon signs.

Brighten up your gloomy Monday with some coffee and/or tea.

The bakery is gone, but the sign remains (for now).

Your weekend Umlaut: blackletter by night.

Happy Tag der Deutschen Einheit from everyone’s favourite anthropomorphic beer.

Some of the best neon signs are those that capture the imperfections of handwriting.

Cursive and non-cursive.

The Café is gone, but the sign remains (for now). Take a moment to appreciate that angular ‘f’.

A crown of neon.

The infinity Umlaut.

Delicious AND refreshing.

A long-forgotten Coca Cola sign.

Sadly Köln’s most celebrated beer-drinker was not in operation on our last visit.

Keys to the city of Düsseldorf, part two.

Keys to the city of Düsseldorf, part one.

The town of Krefeld also yielded a few gems, including this sign for a watch shop that no longer exists. It appears that the watch-band also used to have a neon outline.

The town of Neuss – just across the river from Düsseldorf – had one or two nice pieces of neon on offer; the finest was this former furniture retailer. Note the clever Umlaut and the even cleverer 'dmg' logo.

Things got colourful in Düsseldorf.

Your weekend Umlaut also comes from Essen.

The next stop on our journey was Essen, where we found this cinema sign glowing in the night. Note the swoosh.

Continuing the beer theme from yesterday, here is a delightful sign for an old (but still active) brewery in Münster.