Today we traveled to the small town of Bielefeld, where we took a tour of the Sparrenberg Castle, which was used in the Thirty Years’ War, as well as part of World War II. One of our guides, Volker, was kind enough to translate the tour guide’s sentences to English.
From the top of the tower you can see a clear view of Bielefeld. What you might expect from a traditional European city: lots of red roofs.A view of the castle from outsidePhotobombing Penny
Down here is where enemy soldiers would run up to try to raid the castle. Because of the curved floor, soldiers could easily roll grenades downward to stop them. As our tour guide explained, there were no fragments of grenades found in the walls, which means that the enemy soldiers never got far when invading.
Some couples would leave “love locks” on the railing outside the castle and on top of the tower.I also had the privilege of trying out Spaghettieis; a German ice cream dish prepared to look like a plate of spaghetti. I got bananas and chocolate sauce, but the original recipe has strawberry sauce to resemble tomato sauce. It is also made up of vanilla ice cream to look like spaghetti noodles, and shredded white chocolate to resemble parmesan cheese.
