Today’s Saturday adventure took us to Braunfels Castle, less than an hour from Frankfurt. This visit was a winner. We enjoyed our day very much.
Braunfels Castle has been rebuilt many times in the last 800 years. The remarkable thing is that the original family has lived here year-round all that time!
In more recent centuries, they’ve made it look more romantic, more like a princess castle. I think to attract visitors to help keep it going. They have events there now and musical performances. It was really friendly and fun to visit. We went into a wing of the castle that had period pieces in it, starting with a great hall full of armory. They had several full suits of armor and one seated on an armored horse with a javelin–the whole deal. There were rooms with paintings of hunting and animals and several rooms filled with furniture and portraits of the family. We weren’t allowed to take photos in those rooms.
This is the wing where the family still lives:
To learn more about the numbers chalked on the doors last night, see my next post about Three Kings Day.
Views of the town from the castle:
The old carriage house:
This is the entrance to where you buy the tickets (9 Euro). There’s a nice little cafe with fresh baked Kuchens.
The entrances and exits are massive tunnels.
This is a side entrance too small for a horse or carriage:
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