Schloss Wernigerode

It was going to be another hot day, so we decided to take the walk uphill to the castle nearly first thing. It wasn't far, but was steep at times. As we were laboring up a particularly steep part near the top, we heard the little tram/train going by on the road above us. Meh, we saved two Euros each and at today's exchange rate, that's something.

We opted not to go into the castle, as it was completely updated when it was rehabbed in the Nineteenth Century. We've seen the insides of quite a few castles, some as authentic as they could be (Marksburg on the Rhine), some straight out museums (Nürnberg), and some in their neo-Gothic renovations.

As I said in the original post-- the work they're doing on the walls was less of a hindrance. Seemed very historically authentic, to be honest, as this area was constantly undergoing war, sieges, et cetera as dukes rebelled against the kings, nobles against the dukes, nobles versus each other, and you never knew when the Slavs or even the Poles might show up. Further south, it was the Magyars and Czechs.

(You can tell the building was significantly renovated by all of the very large windows)Read more