This is called 'Kastenwinkele' - yeah - and this is what it looks like, very narrow.
Let's have a look.
Guten Tag aus Deutschland!
Hello!
Jörg and I are on our way to visit Jörg's Mom and we thought we would stop at one of
the very lovely places here in the South of Germany.
Yeah, we are in Herrenberg which is very famous for its timber-framed houses.
Yes and we've never been here before and our first impression is wonderful.
Yes, yes.
And it's got a lovely 'Markplatz'.
Yes, we think you will absolutely enjoy it so let's explore this gorgeous place together.
Yeah, come on.
In front of us is the town hall of Herrenberg and this is where you would get married and
then you can probably get married later in this gorgeous 'Stiftskirche'.
And let's have a look if the church is open so we can check it out.
And
it's open, nobody else is here and we have a very hot day so it's lovely inside of the
church.
Where are we heading now Jörg?
We're heading to the 'Pulverturm'.
Pulverturm?
Yeah, the so-called gun powder tower.
Right.
Yeah, that's where in the past the soldiers stored their gunpowder.
Yeah, okay - because there was a 'Schloss', a castle or a palace.
Right yeah - up the hill.
Well, let's have a look although it's so hot, I hope it's not too uh too uphill.
No but it showed that you've got a scenic view over the city.
Yes, let's check it out.
Look, this is a little B&B and I will try to find it online and if they do have a website,
I will link it for you down below in the info box.
Okay, let's check this out.
I think this looks absolutely spectacular.
It's probably the market square.
We stopped for a little lunch break here in Herrenberg and this is what we got.
This is a tuna salad and as you can see the wasps here are very very bad at the minute.
And what we find, I need to take away the coins.
Now this is such a German thing, coasters made from from carton-board.
Of course you would usually use them like this but because the wasps are so bad, we
use them like this.
I think we only came across coasters like this in a pub once
some years ago and it so reminded us of Germany.
And by the way I have tuna salad as well.
So that's one side of a coaster.
Yes, the name of the brewery - yeah - 'Schimpf' which is so funny in in English because it
would mean 'Rant'.
Yeah.
Schimpf.
It's great.
And the brewery is from 1870.
Yeah, so quite old.
Is it from this area?
Have you ever heard of it - wait - 'cause I haven't.
I don't know.
You don't know?
No.
We should check it out.
We just love the South of Germany so much because the houses are incredibly picturesque.
And so 'gemütlich'.
Yes, very gemütlich.
And we can't believe that we haven't been here before because this is just about a one-hour
drive from Jörg's Mom and I mean you grew up here so - yeah but I've never been here.
No.
I actually think this is a little bit of a mix between Tübingen and and Schiltach in
the Black Forest.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, do you agree?
Yes.
Absolutely stunning.
But think about it - sorry - but think about it, the houses some of them are 550 years
old.
I know.
And they date back to 1400.
But what - that's 600 years.
But what about the the 2nd World War and - they destroyed part of the town - yeah - but uh,
they rebuild it in the - yeah - old fashioned way.
I'm so glad they did because it's so, this is what I know so many people think of when
they think of Germany, they do have houses like this in mind and we also love them so
much.
When visiting my mother we always saw this chapel in a small village.
I think it's called Schlatt.
Yeah, the village is called Schlatt and it's next to a village called Jungingen and Jungingen
is where my grandmother lived.
And every time we drive through this village, I say to Jörg 'Look at this chapel' it looks
so nice, we have to stop and just have a look for five minutes.
Yeah and that's what we did today.
Yeah and the view is actually quite nice as well.
This is the view from up here and it's absolutely wonderful.
So glad we finally stopped.
So this is where my grandma lived in Bitz and where I grew up.
And up the hill is the so-called 'Nadelfabrik' which is a factory where they produced certain
needles and my grandma worked there.
So it was very convenient for her because it was just 800 meters walk down the hill
and in the morning up the hill.
And this as I said this they call Nadelfabrik because they produced needles for weaving
machines.
Very special very special needles so not needles you use in your household.
Yeah.
It's an old factory, I think that it's not in use anymore but it was built in the 1880s.
Here, the Nadelfabrik.
And as a child, as a six-year-old, I used to pick up my grandma at 11 o'clock here,
yeah, at the entrance, that's now, yeah, that's the entrance now and walked with her home
and then we would cook dinner.
Oh not dinner, lunch.
We're in Hechingen and Hechingen is famous for the Hohenzollern.
And the Hohenzollern were the kings of Prussia and also the German Kaisers so it's a very
famous city.
And Castle Hohenzollern is just around the corner - yeah - and this is a great opportunity
to link the video for you because we actually we actually visited castle Hohenzollern two
years ago - yes - and had a wonderful day.
And I just realised that I've never visited Hechingen - yeah - and we just wanted to film
the houses a little bit for you so that you get some impressions from this place.
There is another Café/Konditorei and I'm so tempted to go inside and ask them if I
could just film their cakes.
Of course that's not possible but the smell from this café is incredibly good.
Here's a little peep inside.
That wraps up some impressions from the South of Germany and we hope you enjoyed it.
See you next time.
Bye.