Our last stop today was in Idstein. We quickly learned that the entire old town was blocked off with sentinentels at every street, requiring 20 Euro entrance fee to a live jazz festival going on here this weekend.
There was no way to walk through town, so we stayed outside of the Altstadt and went instead to visit the very old (1170) Hexenturm, or witches’ tower just outside the old city wall.
This is the first time we’ve visited a tower that we were allowed to climb up into. Come and see–
The tower walls were several feet thick.
View from the top:
We could hear the jazz music floating up on the air.
Here are some of the checkpoints to enter the town.
Our Frankfurt Germany Mission 