Cycling in the Tauber Valley
The Tauber Valley is a popular cycling area with two more or less parallel routes. Down here in the valley itself is the “classic” route which is mostly flat, or Read More …
Category: Weikersheim
Tauberrettersheim
Tauberrettersheim is a town of 839 people in the Tauber Valley just five-and-a-half kilometers upstream from Weikersheim. It is also nearly three kilometers upstream from Schäftersheim and roughly the same distance Read More …
Land reform in Schäftersheim
Those houses in the photo are already in Schäftersheim, so it’s not far from Weikersheim — unless you insist on going by car, in which case you have to turn Read More …
Trains to Weikersheim
The Tauber Valley is served by a single-track non-electrified railway line. Aside from local trains there are Regional Express trains from Aschaffenburg several times a day, and also a few Read More …
La Bohème in Weikersheim 2019
The stage set for Act 1 of Puccini’s La Bohème in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace was dominated by a book with the German title Engel laufen nackt (Angels run Read More …
Weikersheim Palace Tour
Weikersheim Palace was originally just a routine medieval castle with a moat around it until the 16th century, when Count Wolfgang II of the House of Hohenlohe developed it into Read More …
Tauber Valley Village Museum
The stone building with the pointy roof on the central Market Square (Marktplatz) in Weikersheim is the Tauberländer Dorfmuseum, which is devoted to showing furnishings, equipment and tools that were Read More …
Weikersheim Palace Garden
Before the opera or during the intermission you can get a glass of champagne or Sekt here and go for a stroll in the garden. This is a formal baroque Read More …
The Merry Wives of Windsor
In 2009 in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace I saw three performances, with somewhat different casts, of the German opera The Merry Wives of Windsor by Otto Nicolai (1810-1849), based Read More …
La Traviata in Weikersheim 2005
Jeunesses Musicales presented the opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) in an open-air production in the courtyard of Weikersheim Palace on nine evenings in July 2005. These biennial opera Read More …