Heidelberg Castle in Germany is touristy, but I still find it majestic. Plus it's home to both the world's largest wine barrel and apothecary museum.

1. Heidelberg Castle: A Photojourney
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Heidelberg Castle is one of Germany’s most f amous castles, along with the Munich Residenz
and Hohenz ollern Castle.
It’s nestled on top of a hill overlooking the city Heidelberg. Not surprisingly in the summer it is packed with tourists. In
spite of all the tourists, I still find it simply majestic:

2. It’ not just the exterior walls of Heidelberg Castle that are beautiful, the interior walls also demanded my attention:

4. Heidelberg Castle is not all beauty though, it is over 700 years old af ter all.
In many ways Heidelberg it reminds me of an elegant older woman’s face. It looks beautiful from a distance, but when
you get too close you start seeing all the wrinkles, reflecting the age of its owner. But instead of judging the wrinkles as
flaws, it just makes the woman more beautiful and gives her even more depth. And Heidelberg Castle definitely has it’s
“wrinkles” after being damaged by fire not once, but three times. Twice by the French in war and the third time when it
was struck by lightening making it uninhabitable.
It houses the World’s Largest

5. It houses the World’s Largest
Apothecary Museum (Deutsches
Apotheken Museum). Admission
is included with your ticket. At
the Apothecary Museum visitors
can see over 20,000 pharmacy
related objects. The collection
dates back over 2000 years and
a quick look at the medical
equipment makes you thankful
that you didn’t live in the middle
ages. As regular readers know, I
love my quirky museums with the
World’s Largest Pig Museum in
Stuttgart still being one of my
favorites.
Wine lovers may be interested in
the Heidelberg Tun. It’s the
world’s largest wine barrel
measuring 7m high x 8.5 m wide.
It could hold 220,000 liters of
wine. Why was such a large
wine barrel needed at
Heidelberg Castle? To hold the
taxes from the wine growers who
often paid in wine. Legend has it
that the wine barrel watcher used
to imbibe so much that when he
drank water by mistake he died.
There’s also the Castle Lighting,
an event that takes place
several times throughout the
summer and reenacts one of the
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6. summer and reenacts one of the
castle burnings. It is then
followed by fireworks.
And the view f rom
Heidelberg Castle is not
too bad either:
An hour south of Heidelberg you
can continue your castle journey
with Schloss Ludwigsburg, which
is my favorite castle tour, before
heading further south to
Hohenz ollern Castle and the
small, yet worth visiting
Lichtenstein Castle.
Have you visited
Heidelberg Castle? What
were your impressions?
About Laurel
Laurel Robbins is a free- spirited
adventurer, award- winning travel
blogger at Monkeys and
Mountains Adventure Travel
Blog. Many hats, one travel
obsessed Canadian in Germany.
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