Castles, manor houses, town halls and churches of the Renaissance period have been preserved in unusually high density, because the economy of the Weser region recovered only slowly from the consequences of the Thirty Years War.
In the south of Germany (Bavaria) you can see no Renaissance buildings, because the Bavarians had enough money to transform their buildings to the later baroque style :-))

Since 2002 the castle is used as hotel.
Look here please:
http://www.schlosshotel-muenchhausen.com/index.php?9&L=1

Thanks for the pleasant comment :-)

You are right, dear Gypsy. The candle holder is a gearwheel-cassette!
For my garden light I still look for suitable material :-)

Thanks dear Anna,
I am glad about constructing and building of my couch like a small boy who builds up his toys railroad for the first time.
:-))

Это рамка для моего нового дивана! :o)
Dear Olga, I have thought to myself, because I become older and older, I can sit no more my whole spare time long on a bicycle :-(
Thus I need a couch to lie down and to lay the legs high :-)
So that the couch becomes really comfortable, I want to build up it myself! For it a Dutchman built this frame rack according to my masses.

Dear Olga, this question we have asked ourselves :-)
On the fields were about 40 swans. I suppose that the animals come from Scandinavia and have a break on the travelling in the south.

Thanks Gary, I painted only the picture myself. However, the idea does not come from me. A similar presentation I have seen some time ago in a magazine.

With a clothespin I will clip my nose :-D

Yes, dear Gypsy, the barrages are nice bicycle stopovers.

Dear Olga, do you think really, that he was almost as smart as me?
:-)))))

:-) Let's go for a ride!

Thanks a lot!

Haha, dear Olga, and now you've got me! :-D
But gold is here only in the name. Mopped is only named Goldwing.
My Mopped is not gilded! :-)
I'm sure, I could live easy without Mopped. ...but not without a bicycle!

Es ist der Ersatz für das stattliche, weiße Pferd ;-)