Sunday, August 15, 2010

Wurtberg/ Eisenach

Today, as it was raining, we went to Wartburg and to Eisenach. Wurtberg is in Eisenach. Wurtberg is where Martin Luther stayed for a while. One of the things that I liked at Wurtberg was this well outside. It had a dragon on the top of the sculpture that was kind of like the Night Fury from `how to Train your dragon´. Also sculpted onto the top of the well were some flowers. Next to the well were snakes, which were quite simple looking but also awesome.
Inside, there were a number of things such as knight armor and furniture as well as utensils which I liked a lot because some of them had sculptures on the end of them of people. It was quite awesome. I was not able to get a picture of all of them, but I did get a few pictures.

After going to Wartburg, we went into Eisenach where it continued to rain and at this point, it was raining pretty tremendously. We could either take a tour of the city or a tour of the Bachhaus, which is a Bach museum, and a short tour of the city. I picked the Bachhaus and short city tour since it was raining. The Bachhaus basically had a lot of Bach´s music and some instruments that I think were used for his music. In the Bachhaus they also had a room where they showed a video of his music being played by a small number of people.

In the tour of Eisenach, there is not much that stuck out in my mind. The only thing that may of stuck out was Martin Luther´s house. There was a statue of St. George that kind of sticks out in my mind.

1 comment:

  1. Why did Martin Luther's childhood house stand out in your memory? What was it about the St. George statue (outside of the church with the same name: Georgenkirche) that was memorable?

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