Monday, February 28, 2011

Part 19: Selingenstadt Tower Stairs

February 23, 1991:
“We found an old tower that was a gate tower for the city wall. The tower stairs were all stone, no metal except for the handrails installed by the defense windows for tourists. You can see the stairs in the photo I took from one of the windows”.

The day started off sunny and cool; then the clouds rolled in. Nice weather for tower climbing. We then went to the small marketplatz where we bought saffron, whole nutmeg, current cake, dark bread, a bunny roll, gluwine (blech), cinnamon, chocolate covered sour cherries, dried lychees, a glass duck ornament, postcards, and cheese.
CAUTION: Tower Climbing may result in odd cravings.

Went on a tour of an old Abbey which took over 30 years to build. Then bought a loaf of bread and fed the ducks. In addition to his many talents, New Mexico Man is quite the duck whisperer. Once again we were amazed to find that our fame continued to spread throughout animaldom. We spent hours signing webbed feet and wings.

Antiquity:
Seligenstadt is one of Germany’s oldest towns. Sometime about AD 100, during the reign of Roman Emperor Trajan, a cohort castrum was built on what is now Seligenstadt’s marketplace and parts of its Old Town. Since the 16th century, the castrum has been assigned the name “Selgum”. With the fall of the Limes during the stormings by the Alamanni about 260, the castrum was forsaken, and the Romans withdrew farther behind the Rhine line.

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