Bad Iburg

It has been a jacket-on jacket-off sort of a day! Just sitting here on the outskirts of Osnabrück listening to the rain on Hilton's roof! Very therapeutic!

After a very peaceful night's sleep we woke full of energy and took ourselves for a walk through the town of Bad Iburg and the famous castle (they are all famous for something!!!). 

Schloss Iburg towering over the village green. 

The baroque facade of the Schloss-Monastery at Bad Iburg. 

A very neat and well organised town with great facilities for most ages. Some of the playgrounds for children were outstanding with some very innovative features. 

Bad Iburg village. 

We walked around the small lake before accending the path to the Schloss on the  hill overlooking the town. Being in the northern heart of the Teutoburger Wald (forest) the town is surrounded by forests.

Lake and local feeding the ducks. 

 

Lakeside walk below the towering Schloss. 

Schloss Iburg was the Residenez for the Prince-Bishop of Onsabrück for over 600 years and later became a Benedictine monastery. A little more trivia- the first queen of Prussia, Sophia Charlotte, was born here! And another -trivia, that is, Bad Iburg was first mentioned in literature in 753! 

An internal view of the apartments. 

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And the view from our van this morning. 

It was here at Bad Iburg that some of the Anabaptists were captured before being executed and displayed in the cages on the church in Münster. 

Internal courtyard and octagonal tower, where the Anabaptists were imprisioned.

It was also near Bad Iburg the Zeppelin crashed in 1910 - not that I remember!

We later drove onto Osnabrück where we shopped, had lunch and shopped some more - well, one member did!

Rained during the afternoon which cut short some excursions. Stopped here for the night.