Explorations of one extremely adorable German city.
I found Bamberg by accident. A friend and I were discussing our planned stops in Germany, and I was absentmindedly clicking on random German cities on Google Maps. Clicked on Bamberg. Saw some pictures of the city and it was not a hard decision to make a stop there.
Bamberg has been around since the 9th century and still retains much of its medieval layout. The city has survived relatively intact and somehow avoided WWII fire bombing. Because Bamberg has so many non-destroyed pre-WWII buildings (including from the medieval era), it was named a UNESCO world heritage site in 1993. Bamberg deserves that credit.
My friend and I spent an entire afternoon wandering as much of the city center as possible. We pretty much covered it. Bamberg isn’t that big, but it is adorable. Even though most of the wandering happening in a 4 hour time span, this post is going to be long. Sorry, not sorry.
Like I said, adorable. The Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) was built right in the middle of the river.
The town hall dates from the 15th century, with 18th century renovations.
The original frescoes were restored in the 1950s. It’s amazing anything was saved during that decade.
Looking back at the bridge I took that first picture from.
A lot of color in this town.
Even the shopping district is cute.
Grand buildings in Gruner Markt.
Maximiliansbrunnen (Maximilian Fountain) in Maximiliansplatz.
Well, that’s a fancy design.
The bridge on the back end of the Old Town Hall. That blue building is fantastic.
This town is just too cute.
Traditional Bavarian restaurant.
Of course, there is a palace right across the plaza from the cathedral.
17th century palace on the right and the 11th century Alte Hofhaltung (Old Court) on the left.
It’s a pretty cool building.
Leaving the Old Court, look there is the full palace.
Now for the cathedral, it is very Gothic.
The cathedral had a very interesting feature. There was an apse where a front door would normally be. The area in the front of the church served as the choir.
Under the choir, there was a crypt church.
In front of the stairs to go to the choir was this fancy tomb belonging to Heinrich II and his wife Cunigunde.
The high altar is gorgeous with its fancy gothicness and choir stalls.
The aimless wandering continued.
I’m glad a lot of these medieval buildings survived.
And this is why I love Bamberg.
The cute is never ending.
Around every corner, cute. There is so much more cute not in this post.
The lovely Church of Our Lady.
This town, I swear cannot get any more cuter.
I give up. This town is just too cute.
Bamberg is simply amazing. I only spent an afternoon there and I would love to go back. There are museums, other churches and even a castle that I didn’t even get to check out. I only showed a small bit of the old town of Bamberg. There is much more to see!
Check out my next update where I will be visiting Würzburg!
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