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Guten Abend,
Berching was charming! We arrived 4:45 on Thursday afternoon after a long day of locks and such. When the boat had been secured to the town dock, we went off for a stroll and dinner. It was a lovely evening during which I met one of the library staff and had a lovely chat. It was a very good day.
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“Berching, the small Bavarian town greets the visitor with a skyline straight out of the Middle Ages; the town ramparts (constructed around 1450,) with 13 towers and four gates, are intact, and you can walk along parts of the walls.” The Danube JPM Guides
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We tied up at the public dock. “150 years after the project by King Ludwig, the new Main-Donau-Channel was finished and officially opened here in Berching.” Welcome to Berching tourist brochure |
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Fairy-tale image except for the modern banners covering the walls. “In old books you can still find the description of the romantic German town with an imposing fortification, high towers, heavy gates and cobbled places. Those towns became quite rare, often overbuilt to be modern. But Berching is quite different: colourful houses which are standing close to each other, small chirches and a completely well preserved fortification from the Middle Ages. There is hardly another town in Bavaria with such a close and unchanged medieval townscape than in Berching: 13 towers, 4 gates and the defensive will from the 15th century characterize the picture of the 1100-year-old town. “ Welcome to Berching brochure
One of the town gates. |
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The Berching maypole had images illustrating different professions; cobbler, woodworker, etc. |
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Very charming place to visit. |
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Examples of wood work was displayed in a shop window. |
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The tourist office
Gluck banners adorn many of the town walls. “Christopher Willard Gluck, the famous reformer of the opera and creator of “Orpheus and Eurydike,” who disregarded the motionless baroque opera, was born here in 1714. An exhibition in the local museum shows details about Gluck’s life and works.” Berching brochure |
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We ate an Italian dinner al fresco and then went for a walk through the town. |
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Berching town library. I had a lovely chat with Librarian Ingrid Olbrid. (I hope I wrote that correctly.) The small side chapel off the children’s room made me think the building had once been a church, but Ingrid told me the library had once been a hospital. It might have been a chapel in the hospital. |
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Towers and wrought iron display |
