When I was three years old I contracted whooping cough. At the time, the treatment consisted of symptomatic relief, and caregivers were advised to let patients into fresh air, preferably sea or mountain climate.
We neither had close to us but for six weeks my grandpa put me on his shoulders and walked up these hills until we reached the castle on the left, quite a lot of steep paths through the thick forest in wonderful, healthy air.
He was indefatigable.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Indefatigable
Weinheim is known as the Zweiburgenstadt (the Two Castle Town) and the two castles, Wachenburg and Windeck, on the hills overlooking the town make a distinctive silhouette.
So distinctive in fact that it was made into a logo. And occasionally into a cookie.
FOWC with Fandango: Distinctive
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I grew up behind the wall (outside of the castle gardens) and they still had peacocks and a couple of crowned cranes running free then. The piercing cries of peacocks sound strangely familiar and cozy to me.
FOWC with Fandango: Picturesque
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Tell Led Zeppelin about it.
There is a small way of stairs in our hometown – it’s narrow and steep and it’s called hell stairs or possibly stairway to hell.
Once a year, the stairs can’t be used properly. Because there are transformed into a slide.
Pretty hellacious, isn’t it?
The manor house in the Hermannshof in Weinheim was built in classicist style in 1820. The garden was, of course, a private garden. Later it became the property of the Freudenberg family. The company founded by Carl Freudenberg in the mid 19th century is today still family owned. The house and garden was still private when I was a little girl and walked past it every day on my way to school. I used to wonder then what was behind the dense hedges.
The garden was changed to a park open to the public, now called “Schau- und Sichtungsgarten Hermannshof” in 1988 and has become a tourist magnet. The manor house is used by the company as a conference centre and is still closed to the public.
The windows show off the classicist style of the manor house. The representative front overlooks the park and with the beautiful magnolia looks impressive at any time of year. But the back and side views are beautiful as well.
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