Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (continued)
Yep, it's still Tuesday!
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| Arriving in Bernkastel (KSS) |
We arrived in Bernkastel at about 17:30, and there was an optional excursion of a walking tour and wine tasting, for which we did not opt. We did our own walking tour and meant to have a beer tasting for Kent.
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| These garage doors open right onto the street! |
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| Hotel zur Post/Post Hotel (1827) on Gestade |
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Once again, a landmark is under renovation
(the Doctorbrunnen/Doctor Fountain) |
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| Tamiko with the severely pruned plane trees (KSS) |
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| St Michael slaying Satan |
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Pfarrkirche St Michael/St Michael Parish Church
(14C Gothic); its tower was once
part of the town fortifications |
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Kent in Karlsbaderplatz with the
Karlsbaderbrunnen/Karlsbad Fountain (>1990)
by Czech Jan Kotek from the town's sister city
of Karlovy Vary, which is Karlsbad in German |
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Karlsbad Fountain detail, with
a curving forked snake tongue |
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| Kent with markings of floods over the centuries |
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Moselstrasse with a grapevine protected by the
green pipe on the left, rising up and over the street |
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| A wrought-iron sign and half-timbered houses |
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| More wrought-iron signs |
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A doorway; I don't think it is really a
Schatzkammer/Treasure chamber |
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Bärenbrunnen/Bear Fountain (1968) by
Johannes Scherl, Bernkastel gets part of
its name from the word for bear |
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The Bear Fountain spout is the head
of some strange creature! |
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| Alte Römerstrasse/Old Roman Street |
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Marktplatz/Market Square with 16-17C
half-timbered houses with decorated gables |
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| Detail of the decoration on the façade |
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St Michaelsbrunnen/St Michael Fountain (1606,
statue replaced post-WWII, by Hermann Paul Simon),
is backed by the Rathaus/Town Hall (1608, in
German late-Renaissance style) on the left |
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On one corner of the town hall are
the pillory handcuffs |
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| Kent can't even get his hands through the cuffs! |
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| But he enjoyed seeing Tamiko in cuffs! (KSS) |
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Spitzhäuschen/"pointed little house" (1416)
is probably the most famous building in town |
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Doorway on Karlstrasse, with the
ubiquitous grapes |
We started hiking up through the vineyards. The Moselle River valley is famous for its vineyards, known for the best Riesling wines.
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Apparently due to the steepness of the
vineyards, the vines are attached to vertical
poles rather than strung horizontally,
to minimize shadowing |
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| As we neared the top of the hill, we found a picnicking group |
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We still had to climb up to the Burgruine Landshut/Landshut Castle ruins,
(built 1277, burned 1692), which is 750 m/2,460 feet above
the town, and promised to have a biergarten (KSS) |
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| View of Bernkastel on the right and Kues on the left |
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| Bernkastel through a castle window |
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| The Viking Hild below us (KSS) |
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| Vineyard gate over the Moselle River |
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| Chapel above a zigzag path of Stations of the Cross |
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| The first Station of the Cross (KSS) |
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| After a brief rain shower, a rainbow over the castle ruins |
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We didn't make it over the bridge to the town of Kues; or the
other part of Bernkastel-Kues, since they had merged in 1905 |
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| Look who's here again! |
Each evening there is a so-called Port Talk to review what was to happen the next day.
Tonight's dinner was The Taste of Germany event, with Michael Fischer on the accordion and a woman playing the barrel organ as they sang to entertain us during the meal of German specialties.
Next: Senheim Wine Tasting.
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