the first two pictures were shot at an ancient roman camp that we visited a day before the castle tour. it was very interesting to imagine where the camp coloseums were situated and walk the buried remains of the limes wall.
and then we made the trip to all these castles the other day. some were open, some not, so we only got to investigate the outside a bit. but it made quite for some beautiful pictures anyway.
trying to photograph the area of a former mini colosseum.
re-erected limes fence posts.
marksburg castle. this castle is situated above the town of braubach. it was open for visitors that day and we decided to take a look at the interior of the castle of course.
the castle has never been destroyed - which is quite an accomplishment as it was erected almost 700 years ago.
a view onto the middle rhine valley - one of my most favourite views. it's in situations like these that you realize how tiny you are and how massive the world around you.
they re-modeled the castle kitchen so beautifully. i loved how it looked like they were about to cook a meal.
recreation nook.
tiny bed! the majority of the population says that people were tiny in the middle ages, but science refuted this. medieval people could reach the height of around 173 centimeters. which was bigger than the people of later times, such as in baroque era. so i really pondered about how these people fit into the bed. turned out they always slept in sitting position as the lying position was reserved for the dead. i love to learn such little details.
wall paintings.
another recreation nook! with beautiful wall tapestries.
there was a tiny cathedral in the castle, too. it was only one room and around 3 x 3 meters wide.
beautiful ancient madonna.
the castle entry had natural stone steps! it was quite a sight.
view onto the river lahn near lahnstein. didn't enter the lahneck castle, though, it wasn't open for visitors ( this was mega uncool, the castle looked so interesting from the outside ). there wasn't much to see otherwise.
on the other side of the valley was this little chapel. it's called 'allerheiligenkapelle'.
the entry to lahneck castle.
we made a little stop in kamp-bornhofen to search for a café, but everything was still closed down. early spring isn't exactly tourist time in the middle rhine valley, i suppose.
but this hanging pig was something i would've liked to put into my shop window as well, if i was the owner of a little butcher shop ;)
church st. nikolaus.
loved this tag: just break in - you will make him happy.
and on we went to visit some more castles. we stopped by the 'adversarial brothers' - two castles that are literally separated by a wall. both castles weren't open, but you could at least climb up the tower of castle liebenstein to get another view onto the rhine again. the other castle of the two brothers is called sterrenberg castle.
the top of the tower. it was really fucking high.
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