Mühlhausen

I finally arrived! I retired to bed (noticing that my room gave onto the main road and, I discovered in the morning, the delivery spot for the hotel) and leaped up all ready to do justice to the breakfast buffet in the morning. Hotel breakfasts are usually tempting and it is very difficult not to pile your plate high. Cake! Bagels! Obscure German sausages!

Nutella dispenser!

Mühlhausen is a small mediaeval town that was very important in the 16 – 17C and where Bach worked as organist in the early 1700s. This is the church he worked in:

Church of St Blaise with interesting – if non functioning – fountain.
Sign outside the church – the ways to Bach.

I did get a look round between breakfast and leaving for the next event. The actual stuff started today so life has got busier. We have to remember what we are doing from one moment to the next. One of the staff who was monitoring my progress across Germany was so pleased to finally see me she said ‘I ought to hug you! You’re here!’

Old house with cafe.
The old town hall. The base of it dates to the 13C.

We saw Rachel Podger play solo Bach on the violin here this evening. I was going to embed a video but YouTube wouldn’t let me!

The ceiling in the council room where we had this evening’s concert.
Town well – still flowing but the water is now not fit to drink.
Old buildings. Nothing like the DDR for preservation – or making the people so poor that they couldn’t afford to knock stuff down.
There are many small streams in the town which used to serve the tanning industry.
This old building is an example of the tanning industry. The top floors are open to the air to dry the skins. The smell must have been indescribable.
The front of our hotel giving on to the corn market. My room is at the other end – on the main road!
Yarn bombing!
The 18C synagogue. It’s been restored but, when it was trashed by the Nazis in 1938, they didn’t burn it down because they risked setting fire to the whole town.
Cake!

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