Travelog for: xiaoxia

There are also the four elements fire, water, air and earth. This one is water.

Then we went to the rose garden.

On our way back to the mainbuilding we had this nice view to the back part.

This is the gate called Damianstor. It is the entrance to the palace area.

I also want to show you the main entrance of the baroque palace.

Here is the county court of Bruchsal.

In front of the county court you find the Amalienbrunnen, a fountain with snails.

The Belvedere on the edge of the "Stadtgarten" was built by Leonhard Stahl in 1756 as a hunting lodge for Prince Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten. The location was chosen so that the lodge would command an unspoiled view of the palace, town and Rhine rift valley beyond.

Especially worthy of note are the two towers, each of which has a viewing platform topped with a Chinese-style baldachin – an example of the fashion for chinoiserie prevalent at that time. Today, the Belvedere is used as a venue for concerts and theatre productions.

At top of the Andreasstaffel, high stairs, you have a great view over Bruchsal. The houses below belong to the oldest part of Bruchsal. You also can see the tower of the ancient castle and of two churches (from left).

The flat roofs belong to the older peoples house. In the far you can see the church St. Peter, a really nice baroque church.

All the houses with flat roofs and the white house on the left below this grey building with little tower belong to the older peoples house. The grey building is a private catholic grammar school.

You hardly might believe it, but it is already one month, that I had been out of the house. My host had been way too busy with the start of the new schoolyear. She only worked and worked and worked and I felt as if she had forgotten, that I'm still there. And now? What a surprise! I will go on another walk through Bruchsal together with Hömpfmömpf. My host told me to help her with showing nice places to Hömpfmömpf and to explain important things and she promissed me to take different photos with me than the ones before. Of course some just were taken on the same place.

Here we are in the palace garden. There is a nice pond with ducks.

One of these statues shows the element air and the other one shows the season autumn.

We had a great view back to the palace and then walked closer to it again and took a photo of me and a halberd.

I've seen the backside of the building without and with fountain. On the left and the right side you can walk through a gate to the front part. Before we walked through the gate on the left, we passed a sundial, which is fixed to the wall of one of the palace buildings. I hope you can see it on the photo.