Day: 7 April 2022

Actually, we had stopped at Hirsau just to use the service station for caravans, but then we had spotted the remains of the Hirsau Abbey and decided to have a look. We learned that Hirsau was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. In the 11th and 12th century, the monastery was a centre of the Cluniac …

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The Lichtenstein Castle in the Swabian Jura of southern Germany is a Gothic Revival castle which was built in 1840–1842. The owners are the Dukes of Urach, connected to the royal family of Württemberg. We managed to go there during a last revival of winter, which transformed everything into an enchanted landscape. At the bottom of the castle …

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