lauf an der pegnitz, franconia

we have found many many old stone houses and timber-framed houses in the city center of lauf an der pegnitz, franconia (franken) which covers the north-east region of germany's bavaria (DE-BY) ... on top we have found one nice armenian restaurant for lunch 🍀💕👍

market square + town hall in lauf (an der pegnitz)

the nuremberg gate

armenian restaurant. you recognize the armenian church at the picture on the wall?

the armenian cognacs (brandies) are really good, you know?

the castle gete was rebuilt in 1580

the castle gate was 1st built in 1535 with a timber-framed house above

the pegnitz river and the castle in lauf (an der pegnitz)

jewish tower 1430 (built from the taxes jewish people paid for the city)

my favorite place (lieblingsplatz 💖) in franconia? or completely elsewhere?

well, it is a nice one, indeed. but it is private, so do not try to find it 😂

very view more pictures here.

fichtelgebirge mountains, DE-BY

we have spent 4 days in the beautiful fichtel mountains aka fichtelgebirge in franconia aka franken in north-eastern bavaria (bayern, BY). btw, fichte means spruce🌲 

our stops this time:

• on the road before the gates of the fichtelgebirge mountains: i've hoped for a nice 1st of may celebration (or demo?) in abensberg. there was nothing like this, but we've found a beautiful old city + wheat beer brewery kuchlbauer decorated by the austrian artist friedenreich hundertwasser instead
• lake and hotel fichtelsee
• ochsenkopf mountain (1.024m) and the spring of the (white) main river
• asch / aš, czech republic
• eger / cheb, czech republic
• interesting + beautiful kappl church close to waldsassen
• basilica + library in a monastery in waldsassen
• on the way back, the franconian city of lauf (not in the fichtelgebirge region anymore)
• ruins of thierstein castle (april, 27th at our way back home from funeral in poland)
• city of wunsiedel (april, 27th)

two of us on the road ~ accidentally the fun option at my phone 😂

ruins of thierstein castle

church in thierstein

on the road ... unfortunately a closed group toady

the gate to the old city of wunsiedel

wunsiedel ~ most people would say wundsiedel 😄

the bavarian writer jean paul ~ born johann paul friedrich richter

 in wunsiedel, (1763 - 1825)

wunsiedel. is it arts? 😇

they've asian restaurants in the province, too

town hall, wunsiedel

lake fichtelsee + hotel am fichtelsee, fichtelgebirge

arts. nice, isnt it?

amazing clouds IN the lake fichtelsee, fichtelgebirge

the old viewing tower at the ochsenkopf mountain (1.024m)

the view from the old ochsenkopf tower

wetter und sturm trotzt der usen-turm. tu's ihm gleich, mein deutsches reich!

my last snow of the season? nope, there was a lot of snow at

 matterhorn at about 3,800m in switzerland 2 weeks later

fichtel mountains ~ fichtelgebirge

the spring of the (white) main river, ochsemkopf / fichtelgebirge

the spring od white main river (weisser main)

the new radio tower at ochsenkopf

restaurant's ttoilette @ochsenkopf

good-bye, ochsenkopf

back to lake fichtelsee

the purple lake?

on the road

the place of pilgrimage ~ the kappl church, close to waldsassen

the basilica / monastery in waldsassen

the famous library in the basilica / monastery in waldsassen

gutenberg's letterpress ...

the 7 remaining nuns in monastery waldsassen

good-bye, waldsassen ...

on the road back home ... 

we have seen the spa bad berneck in 2023 and big parts of fichtelgebirge in 2020.

more pictures (soon) in the combined google album 2020+2025 here.