Castle - Trachselwald, Switzerland

Castles, wonder what they are like? We saw several castles in the hills, on the banks of the Rhine, some were in pretty bad shape, others were well taken care of.

We were close to one and it was recommended to us. I wanted to see it but Mearl wasn't sure about it. However, he gave in and said we could go to see one. We found it, now where to park and how to get up to see it. We see a path going up to the castle, let's park the car and walk! You can just see the top here.

 Mearl is walking up the path. We hear the church bells and is usually the case, we stop and listen.

You can tell we are getting higher and higher. It was a beautiful day and we seemed to be the only ones around here.

In the lower picture, you can see the garden of the home there. This looks pretty flat where the garden is, but sometimes they are not and this one is on a slope that's a little hard to tell here. The people really seem to take care of their gardens and they are well kept.

Castle at Trachselwald

 

 Some views from the first area of the castle. The castle has a garden in the front of it, with a pool and a fountain there. The leaves were just beginning to change color as you can see.

The scenery is beautiful.

A drawing of the castle.

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An opening in the wall, there were several of them.

 I looked up castle on the internet, and they were mostly used or built for rich families. This one here was kind of eery in some spots. You'll see the shackles and some of the rooms that looked like prisoner rooms. I'm not sure if this is true or not, but it looked like that. Plus the openings here, almost looked like look-out places. If we could have read the German words, it might have told us, but we couldn't and I didn't check it.

The inside of the castle walls.

A lookout tower????

 This was one of the rooms on one floor. There were 3 - 4 floors, I didn't count them.

Mearl is inspecting one here.

 It may have been shackles, I'm not sure, your mind just kind of wanders and wanders. I don't even think Mearl and I talked about it, we each had our own thoughts.

I wanted to go up a flight when we first got inside, Mearl wasn't too keen on it, but he went up with me.  We went up one more floor, I wasn't sure if I wanted to go up more, but by this time, Mearl did, so up we went.

You'll see by this picture, the bed might have been comfortable but I'm sure glad I didn't have to sleep on it.

Now I'll show you some inside pictures. You'll also get an idea of how high this is from some of the photos.

A cement stairwell we went up.

This was the other stairs we climbed. They were pretty steep. I think there were two flights of these.

Another area of the top floor.

This was very near the top.

A ladder but we didn't go THERE!

Your imagination may be running wild as well. It was an interesting time here.

Views from the top window.

You'll see the height and the way the villages are laid out. And the fields!

There were cows also. One view had the cows on the right side and another herd of cows to the left with a distance between. The cow bells could be heard, almost in stereo. It was really nice hearing them on both sides.

Mearl & Angie

Mearl & I at the steps to the castle.

                                                                   

We called this the castle cat!
 We didn't see him the first time,
we took Angie back and he was there!

You could almost reach out and touch the clouds!

See the clouds in the trees!

Mearl & I were here on a beautiful sunny day, when we took Angie back to show her, it was rainy and dreary but the scenery was still very pretty, we thought. The clouds were really interesting here in the hills/and higher hills. I wanted you to see both versions of the scenery here. We saw this scene quite a few times and we thought it was pretty even though it was dreary sometimes.

One other story about the castle! We didn't see anyone the first day we were there. However, when we got there with Angie, we saw this gal and her son. They live in the other part of the castle. She said they would be living there until about December and then they would be moving.

Someone told us that Mearl could probably buy the castle for $1.00! We thought that was very interesting. Our thoughts wandered at that point, how much would it cost to heat it? Wouldn't that be very interesting to live in a castle?

Hope you've enjoyed this trip to a castle! It was fun!

Sharon (Grabill) McMillan