Somehow the boat picked up speed and we got to town way ahead of schedule Viking gives a tour in every port but we didn’t want to wait. We went to Speyer on our own, about a 40 minute walk away Fortunately there were some sights on the way
What is left of the synagogue
Cute Speyer neighborhood
Looking through a gate
The wise rabbis of Speyer
Interesting art
The outside of the cathedral
Doorway
Steve in Jewish alley
steve in front of their huge cathedral
On the way they had an open air flight museum. We are becoming very familiar with those Lufthansa Jets
Another museum with interesting benches
Detail of gargoyle on the cathedral
Speyer welcomed Jews 800 years ago and for about 500 years Speyer was a center of Jewish learning. They built a Mikvah, a bath with flowing water from the mountains for women to cleanse themselves. it is well preserved because for hundreds of years it was buried under sand. However the harmony between the Jews and the non Jews ended during the plague years. How come they aren’t getting the plague? Bathing in mountain water versus the cesspool Rhine? Jews must have caused the plague and were driven out and the synagogue burned
Some famous German pilgrim
Inside a former Catholic Church that was made Protestant for the many Prussian soldiers stationed these
Orpheus
Cute town square
Entrance to the mikvah
The mikvah
1 comment:
Wonderful photos--thank you. As for the bench, hubby doesn't look any too pleased. In fact, hubby looks positively displeased--or do I project? My thought is that if furniture can be made horribly uncomfortable in the name of art, why can't food be made all but inedible for the same reason? Wouldn't you just love to be really hungry and have a plate of food put before you that was as attractive as it was foul-tasting? Why, yes, of course, you would--we art lovers would take enormous pleasure if more chefs would make us suffer for the sake of their art?
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