Rudesheim is only a half hour away by train, so it is easy to head over there after work, but not easy to see everything in the few hours left in the day. So I made two trips. And may take more, who knows.
Thursday, July 30
My first stop was the castle-turned-wine-museum, Broemserburg, which was conveniently right near the train station. I spent more time there than I expected; they had some pretty cool exhibits. some of it was on the history of the castle, mostly on the history of wine and wine-making, some on the history of German wine, and some on glasses, bottles, and really fancy wine drinking instruments.
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| Castle through the fence |
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| Rhine River |
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| At one point it was called Niederburg |
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| Wine growing and harvesting tools |
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| Ancient wine jugs |
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| But which is the real grail? |
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| fancy bottles |
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| fancy punch bowls |
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| glasses |
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| drinking horns and really old bottles of wine |
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| fireplace |
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| Terrace |
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| Stairs going further up |
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| Another castle behind Broemserburg - Boosenburg |
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| The outside of Broemserburg |
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| Rose garden |
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| St. James' Church |
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| Statue in the Market Square in front of the church |
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| I didn't get to go into the medieval torture museum, but maybe some other time |
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| the back of Broemserburg |
August 5
This time I wanted to take the gondola ride up the hill to the Niederwald Denkmal monument. I didn't have a whole lot of time, but I didn't really need it to see the monument. It was pretty cool. And the view from the top is awesome. I stayed up there for a while and drank in a glass of sunlight. No, that isn't a metaphor, it's the name of a white wine.
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| View from the gondola |
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| Those are grapes. Grapes everywhere. So. much. wine. |
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| View from the hill |
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| Niederwald Denkmal |
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| The way back down |
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| This is Droselgasse. I ate dinner in a Wine Garden on this street. |
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