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Oct. 13, 2020
Locked up!
After we’d finished at the Cathedral today we walked over the road to Lincoln Castle. Today the largest remaining elements of the castle’s original are the…
Oct. 08, 2020
Burgruine Eisenberg (Deutschland/Germany) - February 2020 -…
Next to the actual ruins (see here) there's the Georg Viktor Turm. That tower dates from a later century but is an extra point of interest when you're climbing…
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bjornroose
Oct. 08, 2020
Burgruine Eisenberg (Deutschland/Germany) - February 2020 -…
Well, we didn't see any snow when we were in Germany in December 2019, but we did get lucky on Valentine's Day 2020. The ruins of the Eisenberg castle (which…
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bjornroose
Sept. 29, 2020
Bad Arolsen (Deutschland/Germany) - February 2020 - part 2
Bad Arolsen (until 1997, the year in which it became a spa-town officialy, just Arolsen) is a small town in the Hesse state. From 1655 until 1918 it served as…
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bjornroose
Sept. 28, 2020
Bad Arolsen (Deutschland/Germany) - February 2020 - part 1
Those not only paying attention to photos but also to text may have noticed two things about the title of this particular post: 1) it starts with a "B" and 2)…
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bjornroose
Sept. 28, 2020
Winkel (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 3
You can read the old but sad story of Schloss Vollrads in the previous post. Despite that story it is a beautiful domain and the sun is still shining on it (at…
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bjornroose
Sept. 26, 2020
Winkel (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 2
I mentioned Schloss Vollrads in the previous post. Here and in the next post are more photos from this castle and its domain. Castle Vollrads is nowadays what…
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bjornroose
Sept. 26, 2020
Winkel (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 1
We have actually been in Winkel before. In Oestrich-Winkel that is. Mittelheim, which we visited here and here, and Oestrich, which we visited here and here,…
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bjornroose
Sept. 25, 2020
Burg Maus (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 2
So, what do you do when you have climbed the hill (see here) up to the castle and see that the castle is not on the highest point of that hill? Indeed ... you…
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bjornroose
Sept. 25, 2020
Burg Maus (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 1
The construction of Burg Maus began in 1356. Archbishop-Elector of Trier Bohemond II and his successors needed it to enforce Trier's recently acquired Rhine…
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bjornroose
Sept. 24, 2020
Alte Stromburg (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019
From one castle to another. There's plenty of them in Germany, but we really had to look for this one: the Alte Stromburg in Stromberg. When I finally found a…
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bjornroose
Sept. 25, 2020
September Odds and Sods
Odds and Sods, or "an assortment of small, miscellaneous items, especially those that are not especially important or valuable". Because I am doing the 365…
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gethinthomas
Sept. 23, 2020
Schloss Stolzenfels (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 -…
I introduced you to Schloss Stolzenfels in the previous post. Here's some more photos from close by and far away, looking at it and looking at something else.
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bjornroose
Sept. 23, 2020
Schloss Stolzenfels (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 -…
Schloss Stolzenfels used to be a medieval fortress. It was built as a fortification by the Prince-Bishop of Trier, Arnold II von Isenburg, and finished in 1259,…
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bjornroose
Sept. 22, 2020
Coity Castle
Coity castle was erected by the knight Payn de Turberville at the end of the 11th century during the penetration of south-eastern Wales by the Norman conquerors…
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david_nurse
Sept. 21, 2020
Sankt Goar (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 1
Sankt Goar is on the west bank of the Rhine and central in the so called Rhine Gorge, since July 2002 on the Unesco World Heritage Site-list. On the opposite…
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bjornroose
Sept. 14, 2020
Oberwesel (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 5
I introduced you to castle Schönburg in the previous post. So, without further ado, here's the rest of the photos.
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bjornroose
Sept. 12, 2020
Oberwesel (Deutschland/Germany) - December 2019 - part 4
Of course Oberwesel is more than sunset (see here) and sunrise (see here and here). It's also, for instance, the castle Schönburg. The castle has been high…
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bjornroose
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