Treuchtlingen part 2 - the surrounding

After seeing the Treuchtlingen, I've went in the surrounding mountains. 

A rocky hill east from Treuchtlingen

The way above

The view from above - in the background the village Osterdorf

A beautiful sunny day at the end of September

The sinkhole, called dolina

Another dolina, it's quite dangerous

Blue blue sky

View on Schambach

Nagelberg

The meadow on the top of Nagelberg

Graben - city named from the ditch (Germ. Graben) built by Karl the Great

Graben - paintings on the wall

Archimedes' screw

WC house, with paintings memorating the ditch that was built by Karl the Great

The ditch was never finished because of technical difficulties

There's an EarthCache dedicated to the great construction

Nagelberg from the west side

A way to the war cemetery - stone crosses

1942

1943

War cemetery monument

Mountain panorama - view from Nagelberg to the East

The cemetery inside

A path in the forest - the beeches are still green
(end of September), but there are first golden leaves

A quite primitive music instrument, just opposite the Villa Rustica

The Villa Rustica - the remains of the Roman Villa

Treuchtlingen

Treuchtlingen is a small town (about 12 thousand citizens) in south Franconia, about 50 km south from Nuremberg. It is surrounded by small mountains (up to 600 MASL).

An old locomotive - from 1969 a decoration near the Kurpark

The old palace

A monument of the graf  Gottfried Heinrich von Pappenheim

Rocks in the park, a miniature geological exposition with information table

A small park near the palace

Fountain

The City Hall

The church

Another church

The old bell

The Altmühl - the tributary of Danube

Fountain in the Kurpark

Swans and ducks love ponds

Sculpture of The Man in Need, in the background the Monkey Park

A sculpture of noone-knows-what

A bridge on the Altmühl in the Kurpark

A bench in the water - Kurpark

A shell sculpture

Ansbach Hofgarten

In Ansbach - the capitol of Mittelfranken (Bavaria, Germany), near the railway station, there's a nice park - Hofgarten, with little botanical garden in the west part.

The Orangerie

Botanical garden from outside

The Palm House

Kaspar Hauser sculpture

Juniper root

Another Kaspar Hauser sculpture

Aloe Vera