Regensburg, October 19, 2024

We spent most of the day wandering the streets, squares, and parks in Regensburg after a walking tour with our guide, Daniel Husband, an American baseball player who was playing baseball in South Africa when he met some German baseball players, went to Germany with them and then married a German gal. They now have two boys. Regensburg is a delightful city, full of churches, colorful buildings, statutes, and stories. Construction of the St. Peter's Cathedral began in 1275. The building was finished about 600 years later. The 10,000 sf of stained glass windows were removed during WWII for protection, then restored after the war. The famous stone bridge was built in the 12th century. There are remnants of a Roman fort constructed in the 2nd century A.D. Plenty of examples of historic anti-semitism, including gravestones plundered from a graveyard during pogroms then incorporated into building walls, and "stumbling stones" which are brass plaques commemorating people killed in the Holocaust, both Jews and others.Read more