Hohenzollern Tour

When Heinrich finally got inside the castle walls, he found a row of statues. They were of the German Emperors for the last several hundred years. The last one had to stop being the Emperor in 1918, almost a hundred years ago. Heinrich had his picture taken with this Emperor's statue. They were both getting a little snowy.

Heinrich wandered around the grounds, exploring the little nooks and crannies. He found a palace garden with a spiral stair case tower to get to it. The garden must be very beautiful in the summer time.

When he got too cold to keep exploring he went inside the castle to take the tour. The doors to get in were carved out of some beautiful wood with carved people as decoration.

Inside the castle there were some very nice wood and stone floors. The people in charge of the castle were worried that the floors would get damaged if people walked on them with rough or dirty shoes. So inside everyone had to put on some over sized slippers to protect the floors. Since they were so big everyone had to shuffle their feet to keep them from falling off. Heinrich thought this was just a trick to have the guest polish the floors while they walked around.

The guides didn't let people take pictures, but there were some very nice furnishings and art work. Heinrich did take a picture out of one of the windows. The snow on the ivy looking out onto the courtyard was a very pretty sight.

Heinrich noticed one of the stain-glassed windows had a big dog with the family's shield. One of the most famous Emperors, Friedrich der Grosse or in English Frederich the Great, loved dogs and had them put into a lot of the decorations. There were dog windows, dog carvings in the support beams and dog decorations on the walls.