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Bruchsal, Germany - 24th February 2011
By: fam-united
We live at a rather loud place since months, but it seems, that this will be the last really really loud works before they get finished everything.
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Posted Mar 4, 2011, 8:52 pm
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Unteröwisheim, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
Today we wanted to go on a short walk again, but it was so windy, that we decided to take the car. We sat down at the window - just turned around for the photo, of course.
We drove through Unteröwisheim.
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 5:57 pm
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Münzesheim, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
And then we drove through Münzesheim, where we visited the Japanese Garden the other day.
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 6:18 pm
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Gochsheim, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
Close to Gochsheim we saw this place, where we could stop with the car for a short time to take photos of the Kraich, a small river, which flows through the Kraichgau.
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 6:20 pm
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Odenheim, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
Then we drove to Odenheim to see the Siegfried fountain. It might be the place were Siegfried was murdered.
Maybe you know the "Nibelungenlied", if not here's a copy of an wikipedia article:
In the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, Sîfrit (Siegfried) is a prince of Xanten who is later revealed to have a heroic background including killing a dragon and winning lands and an immense fortune from a pair of brothers. From bathing in the dragon's blood, he is invulnerable except for a spot on his back where a leaf adhered to his skin. Determined to marry Kriemhild, the sister of King Gunther of the Burgundians, he assists Gunther in wooing Brünhild, queen of Iceland, using his cloak of invisibility to enable Gunther to beat the phenomenally strong queen at javelin throwing, boulder tossing, and the long jump. He also single-handedly conquers Nibelungenland to provide troops in case Brünhild tries to kill Gunther and his kin. Finally married to Kriemhild, he then wrestles Brünhild into submission, again invisible, so that Gunther can consummate his marriage. He gives Kriemhilt Brünhild's ring and belt. After some years, the two queens quarrel over precedence and Kriemhild shows Brünhild the ring and belt and calls her Siegfried's concubine. Siegfried and Gunther make peace but Gunther's courtier Hagen von Tronje plots to kill Siegfried and Gunther and his brothers go along with the plan. Hagen has Kriemhild place a cross on the spot on Siegfried's back where he is vulnerable, and spears him when he is drinking from a stream on a hunting trip, thus fulfilling a prophecy that whomever Kriemhild marries will die violently. He throws Siegfried's treasure into the Rhine so that Kriemhild cannot raise an army. The second half of the epic concerns her revenge.
Read more at wikipedia
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 6:35 pm
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Östringen, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
In Östringen we stopped at the church St. Cäcilia. The church was built in 1895 in Neo-Romanesque stile, often mentioned as "Dom - cathedral- of Kraichgau"
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 6:58 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 6th March 2011
By: fam-united
Finally we were back in Bruchsal. The buildings on the left and right belong to the palace area. In the far you see the tower of the church "Unsere Liebe Frau" also called Stadtkirche (city church).
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 7:12 pm
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Bruchsal, Germany - 7th March 2011
By: fam-united
On Rosenmontag (Carnival Monday) we all were invited to celebrate with our host's family at her parents place. We had a lot of fun. Here you see us short before eating Berliner - a jelly filled donut, not a human being
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Posted Mar 19, 2011, 7:15 pm
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Göppingen, Germany - 8th March 2011
By: fam-united
Our hosts like toy trains and think about building an own at home as soon as possible. Today we decided to go to the Märklin museum and have a look, whether they have something on sale, which they would like. So we all had the chance to go through the museum and have a look at all those old toy trains there.
This is a toy train, which was on its way to its new owner - by train. It had an accident then and so it never reached his destination but now is a part of the museum.
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Posted Apr 1, 2011, 1:53 pm
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driving through Stuttgart, Germany - 8th March 2011
By: fam-united
Then we drove through Stuttgart to reach our next destination. Stuttgart is the capital of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, to which Bruchsal belongs.
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Posted Apr 2, 2011, 6:35 am
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