Schloss Ronneburg is a 12th century castle not too far from Hanau-Stenheim, about a 20-30min drive through a beautiful countryside. We actually visited the castle the same day that we were wondering around Alten Steinheim, but the weather had turned on us during the drive. It was now cold, windy, and raining once again. That didn't stop us, and it actually helped to give a feel for how life must have been for those living during that time period.
The castle looks fairly unimpressive at first, especially compared to some of the other larger one's, but once inside it's beauty becomes apparent.
In this picture "Dude" is standing in front of the kitchen area. As we came near the room I could smell the aroma of old smoke from thousand's of years of wood burning fires used not only to cook with but with ingenius engineering skills were also used to heat the upper floors of the castle.
Just imagine having to dip a bucket 90
meters to get fresh water, and ummm how tasty that water must have been! I bet it even had colour (sorry color, languages you know) and opacity (I thought I'd throw that one in there) to it as well! (get it, well? Ok it's been a long day!) Just for the record I've been trying to post this since the day we visited the castle, but I've had a combination of tarvel, internet, and Blog Spot issues that didn't seem to work in my favour (sorry favor). Anyway, they have a bucket and a spigot that will allow you to thorw a bucket of water into the well to see how long it takes to splash. I counted 12 seconds. Now let's see, gravity accelerates at 32ft/sec/sec (if I can remember my physics correctly). You do the math if you want to, at any rate it was a deep well!
I thought this little item was pretty impressive too. Just in case you didn't recognize it, this is a replication of a catapult. It would have been used to cast large objects at the apporoaching enemy. You now things like large stones, lit hay bails, dead and rotting animal (and sometimes human) carcus'! (or would that be carcusi? Ok a litle science jargen joke) Oh yes, chemical warfare was invented years and years ago!
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