During the Nine Years’ War (also known as the Palatinate War of Succession) the French invaded the area around Heidelberg and destroyed the castle and parts of the town. They blew up this tower with a diametre of 24 metres and a maximum wall thickness of over 6 metres on the eastern side of the castle. And didn’t clean after themselves.
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Quite atmospheric
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All the German Romantics thought so 😉
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Quite so
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I would have loved to be around when buildings were like that as the normal
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Well, they were not really normal, they were the building of the high nobility (and paid for by the work of the peasants).
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Great photo 🙂
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Thank you, Brian.
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Hiedelberg is a lovely place, I visited a few years ago with a friend who lived near Frankfurt and another from Berlin. The castle (or what’s left of it) and the surrounding gardens are stunning.
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They are. The castle is not a tourist magnet for nothing.
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They never did clean up back then. No skips.
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