Germany: August 2005 Archives

Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom) is one of the best-known architectural monuments in Germany and has been Cologne's most famous landmark for centuries.

Crowd next to Cologn's main Cathedral. Saturdays is usually very busy day in front of Cologn's Cathedral.

This Street artist is usually sitting and floor-painting in front of Cologn's Cathedral. For the occasion of World's catholic youth day (which I also mentioned in previous post he was drawing the picture of John Paul the second.

Another shot from Heidelberg castle!

This is another shot of Heidelberg castle. For more information about Heidelberg and this castle you can see previous two posts.

As I mentioned in the previous post, one of the attractions of Heidelberg castle is it's huge wine barrel with a capacity of 220,017 liters (58,124 gallons).
The present day barrel was constructed in 1751 from 130 oak tree trunks, It is 8.5 meters across and 7 meters high with a dance floor on top. Unfortunately the picture is not that clear both because the place was quite dark and also cuz there was not enough place! You can see two visitors climbing the stairs to go to the dance floor. The barrel is in the basement of the castle in a room a bit bigger than the barrel itself!