enjoy medieval franconia

i like timber-framed (fachwerk) houses a lot, you know? there are plenty of them in franconia (franken), my dears 😃

well, my wife have visited a not too good NLP seminar in pleinfeld close to the lake brombachsee and i could work (mobile) from there and also swim & walk one week long in the surroundings. nice.

the medieval city of spalt

my/our stops were:

• lake brombachsee at ramsberg and pleinfeld
• spalt
• pleinfeld
• st. veit
• ellingen
• roth
• lake heiligenwaldsee
• fortress wülzburg ~ festung wülzburg over the city of weissenburg

enjoy few pictures:

lake brombachsee is an artificial lake as they dammed up the brombach river

few grubers over there, strong on 2 feet ... and strong on 2 wheels :-)

waldcamping (camping in the forest) plienfeld 

hotel sonnenhof, pleinfeld

(a little bit too expensive for the service provided, if you asked me)

spalt, franconia (franken)

the brewery in spalt (spalter bier) since 1538

true or just funny? i could not ask many locals...

in spalt, in spalt, da werden die leute gar alt. sie können niX dafür, das macht das gute bier 😃

bavarian purity requirement (reinheitsgebot) from 1516 by ruler duke wilhelm IV

good-bye, spalt

pleinfeld

good-bye, pleinfeld + brombachsee

ellingen, the gate pleinfelder tor

old timber-framed houses

town hall, ellingen

justitia or justice?

 

liebe heilt? love heals 😄

 

castle of the teutonic knights / teutonic order (deutscher orden), ellingen

cultural center eastern prussia ~ kulturzentrum ostpreussen

rosental, ellingen

st. veit

castle ratibor in roth

town square, roth

town square again, view in the opposite direcion

corona masks arts?

good-bye, roth

back to pleinfeld ... what a wonderful bridge!

lake heiligenwaldsee

watch out! swamps

fortress wülzburg ~ festung wülzburg over the city of weissenburg

good-bye wülzburg / weißenburg / frankonia

more pictures here.