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Weinsberg, Germany - 6th April 2012

By: Zandy

Hi mummy,

today Zandy, her boyfriend, Mirembe and I went Geocaching. It was really funny. We go to Weinsberg, this is a town near to Öhringen.
But before we went to the castle we found this funny garden. Do you see the little stone castle there? Somebody try to make a model of the Weibertreu (something like: broad loyal), we found it very nice.

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And than we went to the original Weibertreu.  First I’ll tell you the story about the castle:

In 1140 the owners of the castle were the Guelf (Welfen) and they fight against the Hohenstaufen dynasty about the maystery in the empire. King Konrad III. besiged the castle and won the fight against his adversery Welf VI on the 21st December 1140. So the castle give up some time later and King Konrad III. allowed the women to go. And he said, that the women can take all with them if they can carry it on their shoulders. The men must stay there and the king would kill them.
So the women did it like he said, they take all with them what they can carry on their shoulders: Their men!
And so the castle get it's name.

How you can see there is a lot of wine around the castle. You found here a lot of wine in the area where Zandy live.

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Of course we went inside the castle and the view was really fantastic. It was the first visit for Zandy and her boyfriend, too. Mirembe and I didn’t believe it, because they life here, but it was really so. They said, that you found out more about the area you life, when you show it to ToyVoyagers.  :D
Mummy, look what a great view we had.

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It was very windy, so we had always to wait until we could take a picture. Otherwise we TVs will learn how to fly. But we think it was better we didn’t learn it this way. ;)

There was a little room inside the castle which we could visit. Inside we found this model of the castle.

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It tooks round an hour when we walked round the ruin, but it was great. We enjoy the view.

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Oh mummy, and we found this way

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They called it music room or something like that. They call it so, because in the windows there were harps and when it’s windy enough (sadly not enough today) you hear the melody of the harps.

The next picture shows the view inside the castle.

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Mummy, can you see the church? And the way there?  At the corner on the right side we take the first picture. Very high, isn’t it?

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On our way back down, we found this wall outside. I like it, it looks really old and the plants there make it a little bit mystic.

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And now the last pictures from me with the castle and the church, now from the other side.

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Bye Bye,
Meav

* Posted May 22, 2012, 9:15 pm Last edited May 22, 2012, 9:32 pm by Zandy [Quote] Go to the top of the page


 

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