kirchheim unter teck

on our way back home from the protest camp #StoppRamstein we have visited the beautiful medieval city of kirchheim unter teck (kirchheim under the castle teck) in the schwäbische alb area of southern germany. if you asked me, it is much much nicer and wiser to spend the needed breaks (lunch &co.) interesting places than to eat at the dismal highway restaurants :-)

we were lucky, we had a beautiful weather and a 'day of open monument' here in kirchheim, so we could visit the church tower, town hall tower and many other heritage buildings which are usually closed to the public

enjoy few pictures. as you probably already know, i like the timber-framed  buildings (fachwerk, fachwerkhäuser)

town hall (rathaus)

 the old house

 old city walls

 

more pictures in my g+ album

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cadolzburg ~ politics then and now

our next station in franconia? cadolzburg, the small sleepy medieval city with castle, old watchtower, nice timber framing houses ...
the most impressive insight? there have been clever politicians working for their people many years ago out there! just read what the former mayor, hans brandstätter, provided to his city: train line, watchtower, water conduit, electric power + school, ... we miss politicians of this determination today, don't we?

castle cadolzburg

1157 - 2017 = 860 years old and still healthy 😇

i 💖timber-framed houses

what a clever mayor! thanks, hans brandstätter :-)

old city gate

watchtower

 the church

at the mill schwadermühle was local farmers market today

wachendorf near cadolzburg

franken, fränkisch, frankonia ~ more pictures here.

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zirndorf ~ alice in wonderland

what a nice weekend in franconia (franken, frankenstein?). first we visited a amateur musical 'alice in wonderland, new story' by friends of us (STS youngster department) in zirndorf, which was a crazy + funny + professional performance and we laughed a lot ... and yes, they have beautiful girls on stage :-)

after the event we had great dinner at a small greek restaurant out there. like nuremberg (nürnberg), zirndorf is also a nice medieval franconian (fränkisch) city, but of course much much smaller.

our top performer, gina 😄

• if you have no target, then every way leads there (wenn du kein ziel hast, dann führen alle wege dorthin)
• the caterpillar helped me to ask who i am. the cat taught me to go where the life directs me. the knight showed me there are heroes in our life. finally, the rabbit taught me that the time runs fast and when a moment flies away, we never ever can bring it back.

 

medieval zirndorf

the small greek guy ~ nice greek restaurant with great food + atmosphere, but not cheap

a good opportunity to see the timber-framed-houses a liitle bit closer

the local zirndorf brewery ~ brauerei zirndorf

kirche im dorf lassen? so true 😇

the bakery götz

i'm not sure why i like franconia that much. is it the timber framing house build style (fachwerkhaus), the beautiful nature, my franconian friends or the good experience i've had in 1996 working in nuremberg for almost 1 year? well, maybe all of that :-)

franken, fränkisch, franconia ~ more pictures here.

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