Campervan travel in Schwarzwald, part 4 (Hirsau Monastery)
Nice to meet you my name is anela and welcome to my Adventures this is my fourth day of visiting Schwald good morning it’s 7:30 on Sunday morning and everything is stoed locked and prepared again for the journey and it’s time to start the morning this was a good parking spot I was a little nervous about the locals here how they mind if I stay here but everything went
Fine I wanted to visit one more Monastery ruin before I start heading North I got the idea of it yesterday from a lovely couple uh who I met during my hike they strongly recommended this uh cluster ruin uh the honry ruin it’s only 11 minutes drive and uh it’s early
Morning so let’s see how what is this mystical place about this is a very large Place several different buildings from different centuries most of the information is in German so um I’m really not the person to tell about this history properly but if I understood correctly the first
Parts of this Monastery were built in year 8 38 and it was updated every Century uh until 12th century and uh in the 12th century it was one of the pioneering monasteries in Europe and it has strong it had strong relations to Pope and uh later it was used as a um boarding
School and in 17th century it was converted or updated to be a um hunting lodge for a rich local um Kings or uh rulers so it has served many purposes during the years there is the old towerer in of deuts and there used to be two of these
Exact same high Towers in the monastery but due to the wars and uh ruining of the nearby cities for example the city of c and one of the towers the northern one I assume was uh scavenged for building materials and uh Stone in the N 18th century and this Southern Tower is the
Only one left and it’s decorated in beautiful uh carvings and one special thing about the carvings is that uh normally they have lions and Panthers and uh Majestic cat uh figures on the corners but this tower has uh um it’s supposed to have them too on
The sides as you see the legs and the cats crawling but in the middle there are goats goats and bearded men and the message Behind these figures still remain unknown why they have been decorating a tower in this kind of a carvings as in the many buildings in the
World uh they face their destruction at some point and this Monas was occupied in six 1692 by French French soldiers and it was burned and destroyed alongside with the nearby cities due to the war and after that war the res reconstruction of the nearby cities begun and they used parts of this Monastery
Structures as a recycled building material for the new homes and City buildings and personally what makes me really happy that um visiting these kind of places give you some kind of a perspective of the Modern Life but they are also able to combine it with a practical and welcoming part of the C
City for example this playground here whether it’s meant for adults or kids it is still a very lovely use of this Monastery um surroundings that uh invite people from all over the world to visit the History that was beautiful thank you I didn’t find the clock tower yet it could have been the round one on the left sorry well what was my point is that they combine the old and new in ingenious way and uh that what makes me personally really happy now when the visit for the
Monastery um is done uh I will take my uh morning coffee in the thermal bottle and start driving towards the pit stop in Frankfurt I will uh refill the water and uh prepare the toilet I will uh probably was some disease um because I had some fish food
With me and it’s really difficult to uh wash everything 100% properly especially greasy fish um in camper van when you’re trying to save the water so um I will uh return my keys for that campsite um say thank you and farewell for the locals I met during my winter
And yeah start my next part of the journey towards probably Hanover and uh from there on to North let’s See
This video is for those, who like history and monastery ruins. I got the privilege to tour the historical site all by myself on a beautiful off-season morning. What a great way to finish my trip to Schwarzwald, and begin the next journey.
My partner and I have built this campervan on our own. The whole building process is documented in my blog:
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