While my host's daughter is in the outside swimming pool of Bruchsal, we decided to have lunch at a restaurant. So we walked through the pedestrian zone of Bruchsal. On the left side I saw an old restaurant called 'Ratskeller'.
Walking on I saw the old city hall on the left side, which soon will be a shopping center and there is the city church (Stadtkirche Unsere liebe Frau - Our holy lady).
The maypole is a tall wooden pole erected to celebrate May Day. It may be a semi-permanent feature, standing in position year-round until it has to be repainted or replaced, or it may be a shorter, temporary structure. It may be decorated with several long coloured ribbons suspended from the top, festooned with flowers, draped in greenery, hung with large circular wreaths, or adorned with other symbols or decorations, depending on local and regional variances.
I saw some nice clothes and perfume, but my host told me, that on Sundays and holidays like Whitsun Monday all shops are closed.
On our way back home we passed this aluminium decorated place in front of the Sparkasse (savings bank).
I read the time on the clock. It is 13.10, which means 1.10pm.
It's May the 25th.
and at this place we have 29°C, it's really hot.
There's another head, it is Friedrich, Großherzog von Baden - Grand Duke of Baden.
There's nobody on the street - or better pedestrian zone. It's just too hot.
Here you see the old medieval keep, dated in 1358, next to it the Community Centre, built in the end of the eighties. It houses two halls, foyers, conference rooms, a restaurant, shops, an underground car park, the 'Badische Landesbühne'- theater, the municipal library, the tourist information and the adult education centre.
There is a park next to the Keep and Centre.
Only a few footsteps left and we are back home again.
The sign on the house says: Former prince-bishop winery
1440 built
1689 destroyed by fire
1689 rebuilt as vicarage
since 1972 Caritas central
In the evening I enjoyed the sunset on the balcony.
