Gelnhausen Charm

We spent a few hours wandering in Gelnhausen today.  You can see how the river flows around the castle area we just visited.  The ruins today are in yellow.

This is a grandma’s back yard that backs up to the castle wall.  Take a look at the creativity!

An old bakery sign with a pretzel:

Come wander with us!

Here is one of the bridges that crosses the river into town.

More about this witch’s tower in a coming post.

We headed towards the center of town and the Marienkirche cathedral.

But first a stop in the plaza to visit the bakery there.  This is the very bakery where we started our tradition of “A Pastry in Every Town We Visit.”

In the plaza is this memorial to Philipp Reis, the man who invented the telephone on this side of the ocean (at the same time Alexander Graham Bell was inventing in America).

So many textures!          \ \ \\ \\ \ \

  

The blue house below is where Philipp Reis was born (the telephone inventor).

   

 

 

 

The historic Jewish synagogue:

We are still enjoying Spargel (asparagus) season.