Bad Wimpfen

Having concluded our business in Rothenburg obT, we headed south and west, aiming for the Black Forest and then Freiburg, before entering Switzerland to see Basel. We were drawn to Bad Wimpfen by its promise of a free stellplatz, which we found right by the train station, overlooking the Neckar River. Bad Wimpfen turned out to be a beautiful medieval town, something of a resort now, full of more half-timbered houses, towers, a wall, and a major surprise as we strolled about in the early evening.

The Neckar, from Bad Wimpfen, near our campsite

More beautiful old half-timbered buildings

Thus

And thus, which is actually a local bank, advertising "off- line banking" and
a logo of shaking hands

The steeples of the city church

I was so proud to get this great shotof the steeples on
a wall of a nearby tower

And then staggered to see that said tower had been built in 1200

The Blauer Tower

Walls of the fortress, built in 1200, we learned, just following the reign of
Frederick Barbarossa, who had stayed in Wimpfen some years before; part
of his Holy Roman Empire

More of the walls

Secondary tower

About the fortress

The Kaiserpfalz, same vintage

Impressed by Bad Wimpfen, we drove on the next day on the Burgstrasse,
"castle road," along the Neckar

Taking in a few more castles; but the weather turned ugly, and our drive through
the Black Forest to Freiburg saw mostly clouds and rain