Bamberg

We were in Bamberg on Nov 28, 2022.  Only 68 photos to show for it, ha ha.  We loved this town though, and found it very photogenic.

The ship docked in an industrial area, a little north of town.  Looking back at the ship as we walk to a waiting bus for a short ride into the town:

Once we got out, we set off on a walking tour towards the town centre.  Here are some buildings from along the way:

Screencapture of the map of the town centre:

This was a slaughterhouse hundreds of years ago.  Supposedly it made this part of town very smelly back then, but now the houses behind it that back onto the river is a very expensive place to live.

The town hall, on a small island between the two sides of town:

Looking back at the old slaughterhouse:

Our guide, on the bridge near the town hall:

The other side of the town hall:

At this building the guide was explaining how in a certain century people got tax breaks to cover their timbered walls with stucco or other stone (I think?) cladding, to make the town look more modern.  This building has both timbered and covered sides.  I think the tax break only applied to lower floors so some timbered often remains on upper floors.

We are near the pub that sells smoked beer here:

I think this is the smoked beer pub.  We tried it, it wasn't too bad.

Walking around the high point of town, where the cathedral and Bishop's palace and other religious buildings are:

Through here is a building used as a film set in some famous movies, I think it was the original bishop's palace before he built a more impressive one next door:

This is the newer, more impressive Bishop's palace, now a museum:

This wall is partially fake, it's painted to look like the stone in the public-facing parts:

Garden:

Looking down on the town from the garden of the Bishop's palace:

Model of the cathedral and surrounding buildings:

Another Christmas market.  This was a good one, stuff was reasonably priced, and we bought a couple of candle houses here:

Walking around a bit after the market:

Town hall from the other bridge, there are two bridges and this one goes through it:

That's the bridge we crossed over earlier:

The passageway on the bridge that goes through the town hall building:

The other side:

Another model:

Interior of the cathedral:

A lower chapel:

Walking back to the bus to transfer back to the ship:

These are the houses downstream from the old slaughterhouse that are now prime real estate:

Close to where we met the bus:

A modern concert hall where the bus met us:

On the drive back to the ship, which had sailed a little further downstream while we were in Bamberg:

A lumberyard was right next to where the ship was docked: