Germany Trip - May 25th, 2002

Tuesday October 04, 2005

We left Oma's house in Sindelfingen and made our way to Lake Walchensee in the Bavarian region of southern Germany.  We rented a vacation apartment in the attic of Haus Reindl and stayed there for the next 5 nights.  The apartment was great, with 2 large bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom and eating area.  The man of the house, Herr Reindl, was the hunter of the village.  This was evident from all of the mounted skulls & animals found on the walls.  This is actually the common decor of houses & restaurants in Bavaria.  (It's a taxidermist's paradise!!)  On our way to the lake, we toured the historic town of Oberammergau.

Here's a quick menu to the various picture sets:

Oberammergau

This town is world famous for its folk art and passion plays.  The Thirty Years War (1618-48) and the plague of 1632 came close to wiping out the entire population of the village.  Its surviving inhabitants pledged that if they were saved from extinction they would stage for ever more a play about Christ's Passion.  No further deaths occurred, and to this day, the villagers have kept their pledge.  Every 10 years, some 2000 people take part in the 6 hour long spectacle, in which they transform themselves from Bavarians into Jews & Romans from the time of Christ.

We stopped in this town for lunch on the way to Lake Walchensee.	View from the car.	Here is a typical building in Oberammergau...most of covered with beautiful murals like this one.
Here's another example...	As we found in every town, Oberammergau had no shortage of flowers & window boxes.
Here's a nativity scene that Elke liked!	Eating dinner at a hotel close to Lake Walchensee.	Oma & Uncle Bernd
This is the eating area in our apartment at Lake Walchensee.

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