(Far Left) Cruising the Rhine River Enjoying Castle Ruins, Grape Vineyards and Beautiful Old German Cities (click image for map). (Left) Storefronts in Frankfurt, Germany. Storefronts and Homes, in General, Are Held to Their Original Form by Ordinances. If they need to rebuild, it has to be original structure.
(Right) Castle located in Heidelburg Germany. taken in Heidelburg. We toured the castle on top of the hill. The wine cask in the castle was so big they build a dance floor on top of it! (click image for castle details) (Far Right) Germany has many churches and cathedrals with massive stain glass windows. During World War II, as the bombing and shelling neared, the townspeople buried the stained glass windows to preserve them. After the shelling stopped, they dug the windows up; many windows were preserved.

(Above) The Oberammergau Passion Play was first performed in 1634. According to tradition, a traveling villager unknowingly brought the Black Death home with him, causing a local epidemic that killed nearly 100 people of Oberammergau. The terrified survivors begged God to spare their town from further deaths, vowing to perform a passion play in their village every 10 years. The plague disappeared with no further deaths and the villagers of Oberammergau have faithfully kept their vow to the present day. Pictures of the passion play building, stage, and souvenier shop are shown above.