Last Day Before Leaving

The church in Örhingen, at the market square. This church was built in the 13th century. Peter took me to the Rathaus, also located on the square, to visit the town archives. Örhingen is from the Roman times, when it was a border town along the Limestrasse. Due to the poor lighting, even with a flash, I didn't make any good pics from inside.


















View of the conference room in Örhingen.












This is one of the few remaining segments of the Roman Wall, or Limestrasse. This segment is located north of Öhringen. The Limestrasse ran for over 100 miles from Mainz on the Rhine, all the way to the Danube. This part was found and excavated in the 1770's.







Charlene, standing at corner in Untersteinbach. The road to right leads into the village. The road coming from behind me comes from Renzen, 2km distance. The road to left leads up hill to FKK-Simonsberg.








View looking towards Renzen, from Untersteinbach. This was our last full day here. Although we don't have pictures of it, later in the day, we went to the public hallenbad(indoor pool) in Pfedelbach with Peter and AnneRose Fromhold. The pool is unique as it's depth is changeable by lowering the bottom of the pool. The water, as like all the other pools we've been to in Germany, was a warm 90 degrees. The indoor pool is open in the winter months from September through May, and they have family nude swims on Sunday afternoons during this time. It truly amazes me that a town the size of Pfedelbach, total population of under 10,000, has such a wonderful facility such as this, yet here in po-dunk Indiana, we do not.

The next morning, we were greeted with more snow. The two hour drive took closer to three and a half, but we left Renzen in plenty of time to make it in time to wait to catch our plane. We would like to thank Peter and AnneRose for their hospitality, as well as the Truckenmülleräs for their great accomadations. Also special thanks to Annerose's cousin, HeidiRose, and her wonderful afternoon tea on our last day in Germany.

Sights not pictured are from Cologne and Dortmund, which Charlene and Mary visited for three days while Peter, Dad and I traipsed about the countryside.