The Trimburg ruins 10-16-11

The ruine Trimburg

Hikers taking a break

Local village

Inside the ruins

The biergarten

bier maedchen

The Saale river valley toward Bad Kissingen

Pig story.  The Swedes had the castle under siege for a long time and food was almost gone and they had run out of cannon balls.  So they said what the hell and shot their last pig as a cannon ball at the swedes.  When the Swedes saw this they said "they have so much food we can't wait them out" so the Swedes left and the castle was saved.

ruins

In the biergarten

On Sun. the 16th we took a ride to the Trimburg castle ruins.  Johanna said there wouldn't be any walking, just to the castle.  But knowing her I took an Ibuprophen anyway to help my knees.  When we got there we took off in a different direction then towards the castle.  I asked what was going on and she said we were just going to walk up the hill to an overlook about a mile away.  I stopped a 1/2 mile in and sat down at a table and waited for her to go there and come back.  She's always doing this to me.  We walked back to the ruins and the place was packed.  On Sundays different clubs alternate serving beer, wine, bratwurst,and cakes and the profit goes to the renovation fund for the castle.  The Sundial bridge patio in Redding would kill to have this amount of business.   The castle was started in the mid 1100s and had various owners down thru history until the the mid 1800s when it fell into disrepair.  When Johanna was a young girl they would come here and it was just a pile of rocks.  The farmers had stolen many rocks for various uses.  The city of Hammelburg took up the cause in the 1970s and started renovating the castle.  A lot of the paving stones have peoples names on them for the donations they gave.