Freudenstadt and environs

Hot Dog! Sausages galore. Smelled wonderful, but we passed.

Rain this morning so we hung out in the room until 11 when it lessened, and then walked the 2K into town.  The huge Market Place is known as the largest in Germany, though it is intersected by a road which makes the  attribution somewhat questionable.  Lots of food and clothing  stalls, but nothing tempted us.  The Marktplatz was built by Duke Friedrich I of Wurttemberg in 1599.  His intended castle never materialized but he did build the Protestant Stadtkirch with its interesting perpendicular naves.  Unfortunately the church was bombed to bits in 1945, but it has been very nicely rebuilt.  At 1:30 the rain and chill sent us indoors for a Thai lunch (see photo proof for those of you who know Rob's antipathy to restaurants).


At 3:30, with improving weather, we headed out on the Bonnie to experience the Black Forest, taking some lovely back roads north to Baden-Baden, where we spent an hour walking the town and park.  We then headed south on the famous Schwarzwald-Hochstrasse (Black Forest High Road) which runs along the tops of hills, with views of the thick forests and  occasional towns in the valley.

Rob wanted a photo of us in front of the famous Oberwolfach Math Institute.

Rob had another detour in mind.  The math institute at Oberwolfach is just 30K from Freudenstadt.  Yesterday he checked their schedule and noted that Knot Theory was this week's topic.  So we stopped by for an hour's catch up with long-time math friends, departing at 7:15 for our final scenic (and increasingly chilly) ride "home" to Freudenstadt.