#Freiburg im Breisgau

[nobeerreviews]

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

-- Carl Sandburg

(Freiburg, Germany)

[grandboute]

Musée des Augustins

[merpmonde]

Freiburg's Schwabentor

The Germany city of Freiburg im Breisgau, on the transition between the Rhine valley plains and the hills of the Black Forest, was part of the Duchy of Swabia until it dissolved in the 13th century due to the ducal line going extinct. It was around this time that its "Swabian Gate" was built at the Eastern edge of the town, facing the Swabian heartland.

Like Schaffhausen's Schwabentor, it has undergone upgrades and downgrades, taken damage and been restored over time. The current illustrations on the tower include St George slaying the dragon (1903) on the outside, and a merchant with a cart (first painted in 1572) on the inside, just visible in the picture below.

Freiburg's Altstadt has many gorgeous, colourful houses decorated with trompe-l'oeil facades. An effort has also been made to preserve the little rivers in the streets, known as Bächle. Local superstition says that anyone who accidentally steps in a Bächle will marry a local - unusual to see a place that values clumsiness!

[mikimeiko]

Day 19 - Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany)

I could've done without a heatwave in my last days of travel. It's the second night in a row that I sleep like shit because of the heat in these places that are not really prepared to handle it.

I walk around parts of the old town that I didn't see yesterday, and parts I did see but look so different with more people around and more shops open.

There are stalls selling small wooden boats with strings that kids can carry in the tiny canals, and I actually see a couple of kids using them <3

I go to the bigger city park, find a bench shaded by the trees and enjoy a light breeze that comes and goes.

I was thinking of going up the castle hill with the funicular that starts in this park, but it's a really short funicular (doesn't get you very high) and is a little expensive for what it is, so in the end I decide against it.

I keep waking around old town alternating sightseeing and entering big shops to find reprieve from the heat XD

There's a path along the river, but when I get there I see that it is mostly for bikes, and more of a "walk along" than a "stay a little while" path (like, no benches or larger areas, at least in the portion I see).

There's also a spot in the river with large rocks where many people are bathing and/or sunbathing.

There's also a canal, and along its course a pleasant area of bars, cafés and pubs - but the only seating left is in the sun, so I keep walking.

The university is quite beautiful, made from the same dark pink stone used for the cathedral (I suppose it's some kind of local stone? Usually when many buildings are made from the same material that's the case, though you never know. In any case is a wonderful shade of pink).

Around sunset the tempersture and the humidity decrease slightly, and it's actually pleasant eating a (cold) dinner on a bench in the park.

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FREIBURG

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Bächle, Freiburg im Breisgau 🇩🇪 (Source 📷 ?)

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Cobblestone mosaic in Freiburg's Altstadt

Love will win, but take no shit in the meantime. We haven't survived this long to entertain fascists. 🌈💜

[sinfried]

Die Heli- Luft- Therapie, Freiburg (DE)

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[nobeerreviews]

The late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood

-- Stephen King

(Freiburg, Germany)

[thepaperboatblog]

Tappa fondamentale del nostro tour di Friburgo è stata la visita al birrificio Ganter

Tra birre a fiumi, assaggi insoliti e il profumo del luppolo, abbiamo scoperto un sacco di cose anche sulla storia della città.

D'altronde da Guntherstube ci avevano dato i compiti per queste vacanze e noi giustamente ci siamo prestati.

[surelookbutnothingtoseehere]

[mikimeiko]

Day 18 - Across Germany

Time to travel to my last destination!

Five hours of train are too many hours of train ;_; especially if you're sitting backwards and you only have a little bit of window ;_;

Also this part of Germany is very similar to northern Italy (not the cool mountainy part; the flat, field after field part). Looking out the window, I could be in Lomellina or something XD

First impression of Freiburg I'm Breisgau: very good! The old town looks lovely from what I see from the tram, but the sun is so hot that I decide to go rest for a bit and go outside later.

(I'm starting to feel like an American, but... WHY THERE IS NO AIR CONDITIONING ANYWHERE. I mean, I can guess why, but... Maybe a fan? A lot of places I've stayed in the past had just a fan and it was perfectly alright, and instead there is just the heat. Everywhere.)

I take a walk through the old town in the perfect golden hour light, and yes, it's a lovely place. In some ways a nice parallel that this is the last stop when Innsbruck was the first (it's not the same area and they are not the same, but there's something of a similar vibe in some details).

One of the characteristic things of Freiburg are these tiny canals that run on one side of most streets in the old town. They are very beautiful, and there's lots of people walking barefoot in them, or sitting on the curb with their feet in the water and... It looks very refreshing but all the people that are doing it seem to be tourists and I cannot help but think about the tourists that bathed in the acqua alta in Venice (which you really, really shouldn't do). I really hope this is different XD

In the tiny Colombi park there's a small stage with some South American folk dancers. Love that I managed to find some musical event here as well :D

[askeataiho]

@jupiter-balls

Getting all your ducks in a row. (In a baechle outside a souvenir shop in Freibug-im-Breisgau, Germany)

[drt-racewalking]

You‘re invited to walk with us!

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