Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Rudesheim, in two visits

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.

Castle through the fence

Rhine River

At one point it was called Niederburg
Wine growing and harvesting tools

Ancient wine jugs

But which is the real grail?

fancy bottles
fancy punch bowls

glasses
drinking horns and really old bottles of wine

fireplace

Terrace



Stairs going further up

Another castle behind Broemserburg - Boosenburg

The outside of Broemserburg

Rose garden

St. James' Church

Statue in the Market Square in front of the church

I didn't get to go into the medieval torture museum, but maybe some other time



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.

View from the gondola

Those are grapes. Grapes everywhere. So. much. wine.


View from the hill



Niederwald Denkmal




The way back down





This is Droselgasse. I ate dinner in a Wine Garden on this street.

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