We spent a perfect day in Heidelberg with Ed, visiting the Heidelberg Schloss. A real vision of what a working castle must have looked like, it was large enough to house a theatre, a church, a dry moat, and beautiful gardens surrounding. With not enough money to restore the castle from destruction, they have left the sections which had been destroyed from a civil war between the Protestants and Catholics, the 30 years war with the French, and a 4 day fire. They merely maintain the castle as it is.
Ed stands atop the larges wine cask in Germany. It holds 57,000 litres of wine. This is where the local farmers brought their wine to the King when the paid their taxes. The mix of many different wines was obviously quite yucky so they added spices and boiled it... the precursor to the modern-day German gluwein.
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