castle brunow (schloss braunau) + lodz + taraska, PL

... there are more braunaus in the world than just hitler's birth city braunau in today's austria, you know? where? 

• in the czech republic (called broumov today. we have just visited the nearby rock formations in adersbach) 
• in poland. we've spent 2 nights in castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL. well, in lower silesia (niederslesien, slask dolny) we have also visited:
• small city lwowek slaski (löwenberg)
• the castle grodziec (gröditzburg) in grodziec (gröditzberg)
• city of boleslawiec (bunzlau)
• later in central poland:
• lodz
• ruda bugaj
• the art of living's ashram in taraska. 

i'll most likely upload pictures + insights from poland later ... much later ... most likely in the cold + rainy autumn evenings, okay? our stops 

 

 castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL

castle hotel brunow, silesia ~ schloss braunau, schlesien, PL

castle grodziec (gröditzburg)

a historical show fight between knights out there

town hall + market place in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

town hall restaurant in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

a local beer from the just few meters distant brewery

town hall restaurant in lwowek slaski (löwenberg)

real or AI generated? who knows?

real or AI generated? who knows?

more pictures (much later) here.

funeral in poland + schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle

funerals are sad. especially funerals of young people ... 46 .... without any previous signals for some illness ... soooo heartbreaking saaaad .... anyway, it was important to say good-bye, dear friend 🙏 and in some way even nice to meet all our polish family at this mourning ceremony ... and it was also really valuable to spend some time with our closest family in ruda bugaj in the outskirts of lodz & alexandrow lodzki in central poland.

we had to come to lodz in 1 day and we did. it is 950 km one way from munich, thus not easy at all. despite heavy rain and bad sight during the journey we were lucky to arrive after 11 hours short after 9 pm in lodz. that is perfect as we could extensively talk to my mother-in-law the very 1st day. at least at the way back we could sleep 1 night somewhere in the middle of our way. it was a nice castle hotel from 1581 called palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain just 5 km away from the polish-german-border at zgorzelec aka görlitz ....

palac lagow aka lagow castle aka schloss leopoldshain, 1581

enjoy few pictures 😄

on the road

a short break for lunch in saxony

RIP dear friend

what a beautiful cemetery in lodz ... like a park, isnt it?

the chapel of the scheibler family in the evangelic part of the central 

city cemetery (2017). there are catholic + ortodox sections, too.

just the jewish cemetery (2018) is outside the old city's center.

26 years 😥

the most old graves in the evangelic section of the cemetery are german

ruda bugaj

walking in the nature ...

flowers are the smile of the world, arent they? ... 

and maybe they even reduce the pain on funerals a little bit

czarny staw, a restaurant + event location in adamow nowy,

some 5 km behind alexandrow lodzki

schloß leopoldshain aka lagow castle close to görlitz aka zgorzelec

holba. what a tasty czech beer made from rice!

back home 🚗🕖🍀

more pictures here.