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Welcome to Linda's and Garr's Germany pictures. |
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| About to leave the Openluchtmuseum. Linda, Rainer, and Sharon stand beside a small tree with beautiful flowers. A trumpet tree stands to the right and behind. We tried to buy some seeds for one of these at a nursery on the 12th of July, but the one seed packet for trumpet trees was slit at the bottom and there were no seeds inside. | |
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| Along the shores of the Agger River, Loope. We wenk Kegelling in the building at the right on July 11th. That's something like bowling, but the lane is narrow near the bowler and there are nine pins arranged in a diamond formation. |
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| On Tuesday, July 8th, Sharon took us to her favorite castle, Burg Eltz, on the Eltz River, southwest of Koblenz. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside, but we took plenty outside. | |
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| Trutz-Eltz, see comment below. | |
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| "The castle was never destrowed by military action. there was, however, one siege of considerable importance in the 14th century that became known as the 'Eltz fued' (1331-1336). The then Elector of Trier, archbishop Boldwin of Luxembourg, coveted the region between his principality and the Rhine, land held by knights, whose liege-lord was the Emperor. His advances were repudiated by the Eltz knights, who formed as alliance with simiilar families in the neighnorhood and declared war on the invader. After several skirmishes, the archbishop laid siege to Eltz castle and built a tower, TRUTZ-ELTZ (Spite-Eltz), still visible on the hillside, from where he proceeded to bombard his foe with stone balls, some of which are preserved in the court. After two years, the allies sued for peace and became vassals to the Elector." This is a picture of Trutz-Eltz, on the hill above above Berg Eltz. |
| One of several such pictures on the road down to Burg Eltz. |
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