Exciting additional photos from Southern Germany tour in September

This is a very small portion of the beautiful and grand Dom Kirche in Koln (Cologne) Germany. We visited Koln our first week in Germany (the end of August).
Sunday, September 9, 2007. A view from the back of the little train engine that pulled us up a semi-steep hillside to visit the Wernigerode Castle at the beginning of our "Self-designed Southern Germany castle tour.
A ground level view of Wernigerode Castle.
Eric, Whitney and Bev preparing to enter the castle grounds. A view of the gorgeous valley below Wernigerode Castle!
Monday, September 10. Rheinstein Castle along the edge of the Rhine River. The castle had been purchased by an opera singer who currently resides there. The singer was in the process of slowly renovating the castle and grounds.
Rheinstein Castle and gardens behind the castle.

Tracy and Whitney at Rheinstein.
A partial front view of the inner court of Heidelberg Castle.
A storage tank for the years supply of wine to quench the thirst of the 6,000 inhabitants of the Heidelberg Castle and community inside the fortress walls.
A view overlooking the city of Heidelberg and the Rhine River from a courtyard balcony.
Terraces along the back of Heidelberg Castle. Bev and Eric at Heidelberg.

A beautiful home right next to Heidelberg Castle. I thought it looked like the house used in the filming of "The Sound of Music".
Ludwigsburg Palace, originally built to house the Mistress?! of a Duke. For some strange reason, the wife and the mistress BOTH had to have huge houses?! This palace is also known as the Versailles of Southern Germany.
Ancestral portrait gallery inside Ludwigsburg Palace
Gardens behind the palace.
Tracy on the inner grounds of Ludwigsburg Palace.

Neuschwanstein Castle overlooking the town of Fussen.
Whitney and Tracy on the grounds of Neuschwanstein Castle.

A view from inside Neuschwanstein Castle.

Neuschwanstein from a distance.
The Alps by Fussen.
An interesting old church in Fussen.
We stayed in Steigmuhle Pension in Weisensee, about 10 miles from Fussen. It was very cosy, clean and had an amazing huge and delicious breakfast buffet.

A balcony view of the lake by Steigmuhle Pension. This is the morning just before the sun came up.

Lake right after the sun came up.

We briefly drove across the border into Austria.
Lichtenstein Castle

Could this Castle be positioned any more precariously?!!