Velburg, Germany.......The town we call home.

Our little town dates back to 1129, with a current population of around 5200. We have a military leased off post house........which means the government has contracted out X amount of houses in this area for military members to live in.

Here is a view of Velburg from atop the Castle ruins tower, which you can see from our house.

The 72' tall Town Hall was built in 1863-1865, and is set right in the center of town.  The hand paved road is very common throughout Europe, it is aways set at a arched pattern.

This is a pic from the Town hall down the main street, there are a couple of bakeries, a meat shop, bank, couple of hotels and about half dozen restaurants.

We still have to translate what the monument is for.

Our house is in a three-plex, we are the one on the right with the garage right next to the house.  It is 3 story with a basement. basement has boiler room, laundry room, huge storage room, and an open area. The ground level floor is the kitchen and living room with a 1/2 bath, 2nd floor is 2 bedrooms and full bath, top floor is the master bedroom, bathroom, and an office nook. There is also attic storage!

So out our master bathroom window or the office nook you can see the castle ruins on the hilltop.

This is a model of what the original castle looked like in 1129, the model is in the town hall and was made from the mortar of the original castle.  

 The castle was heavily damaged during the 30 years war in 1633 and never repaired.

In the 1700's the stones from the castle where used to build the local church and some of the houses in town.

I talked Jonah into going to the top of the rebuilt castle tower with me.

View of the city from the tower window.

You can barely see Jonahs head through the window.

Going up the tower

Jonah a little hesitant about coming up

Pic from top of tower at the flagpole, our house is just out of frame on the right.

Bench and firewood ready to go

Pic on our way back down

On our way down we saw this wooden cross overlooking the town....Beautiful!

I hope you enjoyed a little view of our town.