City Tour: Bad Wimpfen, Baden-Württemberg

[arylla]

Bad Wimpfen is a small town in Baden-Württemberg, near Heilbronn, for those who are interested in the geographical details. It's said to be lovely, with lots of old houses, and we wanted to check that.

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[breakingthrunow]

Very pretty and looks like you had great weather! Thanks for posting these.

[arylla]

Yes, the weather was amazing! (And the weather forecast said it would be rainy. Not very reliable, huh.)

[akiko]

I went there once! Ages ago, actually, on my first trip to Germany (1992). I've got a bunch of bad pictures, taken on a cheap camera. It was the tower that I remembered, actually. I've got a shot from inside looking out through the hole.

[arylla]

Really? :D And here I was thinking that nobody beside me would know this place. Unfortunately I didn't get to see the tower from the inside. There was a school class there and we didn't want to run into them.

[akiko]

The German club in my high school did an exchange with a Realschule in Schifferstadt (Rheinland-Pfalz). So we did little day trips and such, plus a 3-day overnight to Munich. I've till got the itinerary in a scrapbook somewhere. :)

[missedith17]

Wow, that pretty much looks like the quintessential German village you see in movies. Lovely photos - What exactly was "The Herb Witch"?

[aquarienfisch]

a restaurant :)

[missedith17]

thanks!

[arylla]

Haha, yes, I didn't realize it before, but you're right. :D

About the Herb Witch, I was a bit overeager at translating. It should be just "Herb Woman". And yeah, it's a restaurant. I took a picture of it because I liked the dialect it used. Which of course gets completely lost in the translation. Yeah, I'm not really a logically thinking person.

[arylla]

That's a good question. I've no idea, actually. I'm mostly familiar with the south of Germany, but I too know a lot of restaurants called "Grüner Baum" there. But it's kind of repetitive anyway, isn't it? :) It's either Goldener Hirsch, Krone, Wilder Mann or Grüner Baum.

Glad you like the pictures!

[claudee]

Oh wow, this looks really, really lovely, quite typical for so many smaller cities in the Southern Part from Germany, I think (just from what I have seen so far, coming from the North).

[arylla]

Yeah, there are a great deal of cities which look like that here. (Oder wie man so schön sagt: Puppenstuben. :D) I love visiting them, they always give me this feeling of 'unspoilt world'.