Roses in the Castle Garden of Rothenburg

After a great and relaxing morning at our favourite Sunday breakfast spot 'Unter den Linden' at Rothenburg ob der Tauber we went for a stroll inside the town wall of the medieval town.

Off the beaten tourist tracks there are many beautiful und unique places to linger over.

 

One of this places is the Burggarten (Castle Garden) in the east of the old town, high above the Tauber valley.

From there you have a fantastic panorama view on the southern town wall and the historic buildings behind.

One of my favourite spots in the Castle Garden is a small geometrical garden from the 17th/18th century with eight figures made from sandstone.

They are representing the four seasons and the four elements.

Currently many beautiful and sweet-smelling roses are blooming.

Here are some of my best shots from yesterday...

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See you at Rothenburg next time...  ;-)

Rosenblütenfest Creglingen

 

rose bloom festival at Creglingen

 

The town of Creglingen, situated in the lovely valley of the Tauber between Bad Mergentheim and Rothenburg, in the north of the German state Baden-Württemberg, celebrated its 7th rose bloom festival recent weekend.

You were able to find and take pictures of hunderts of different roses in the rose gardens as well as at the stalls of the market gardens.

I restricted myself to post just some of the rose blooms I took yesterday, otherwise you'll have to look at too much photos today... ;-)

Anna, the official Rosenkönigin / Queen of Roses 2012

as beautifully and fragrantly as the flowers she represents. 

Besides all the roses the rose bloom festival offered several other products made from the rosehip or the rose petals.

See you next year on the 8th rose bloom festival at Creglingen!?

November deer and roses

This year's autumn in Germany is really unusually: yet no storms, no strong winds at all, no rain showers, no temperatures below 0°C - just calm and misty weather, sometimes with periods of great and warm sunshine. So many of the deciduous trees still have their withered leaves on their branches.

And most of the roses are not frozebitten.

So I was able to take some autumnal photos during my weekend stroll without having the disadvantages of normal German autumn weather...

The deer (fallow deer as far as I know) I found inside an enclosure of a small manison / country house.

They are really greedy, so it was no problem at all to entice many of them with some bread.

Doch als die Rose Ihn ins Herzen stach...

Doch als die Rose ihn ins Herzen stach
Und eine Träne fiel
Da sprach's:
Süss wie mein Duft ist das Vergessen
Denn nur zum Elfentanz siehst du den Feen Zauberglanz
Niemals wird der Mensch die wahre Schönheit sehen
Sein Herz ist blind
Drum wird er's nie verstehn.
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Gefunden als Zauninschrift in Hunspach, Elsass, Frankreich.

Found this epigraph on a fence in the village of Hunspach, Alsace, France.

Schorndorf rose market

Schorndorf, only 26 km away from the Swabian capital of Stuttgart, is known especially for two goodies: It's the home town of the ingenious German engineer Gottlieb Daimler; He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the first high-speed petrol engine and the first four-wheel automobile.
And it's known for its half-timbered buildings (Fachwerkhäuser), which belong to the most beautiful of Germany.