Today I was on a trip to Ladenburg, a city at the Neckar in the Rhine-Neckar district in Baden-Württemberg. It has a beautiful Late-Middle-Ages historic district. It is about 11 km from Heidelberg in the southwest and Mannheim in northwest.
The first settlement was between 3000 and 200 before Christ. First it was a Celtic settlement named Lokudunom ("sea castle", later the Roman city Lopodunum. In year 98 it got the rights of a city under imperator Trajan.
Later it was a Franconian royal court and residence of the bishops of Worms.
In the modern era it became less important between the new centres Heidelberg and Mannheim.
We saw the historic part of Ladenburg, but I'm sure, I would have liked to see the car museum of Carl Benz too. It is in the factory halls, which are about 100 years old.
My God, was the weather hot there. I was so happy, that we had an icecream between that walking around and later I was sitting with my host aunt - or how should I call her ??? - on a bank and watched the children play on the playground.
On the photos you see me with the water tower and with the Neckar.
