My friend from this wonderful part of
Germany, Besigheim
in Swabia which is not only a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany,
but an area over-flowing in wine. Mmmm. The card depicts Hirch, a restaurant cum hotel in Besigheim.
Swabia was
one of the ten Imperial Circles of the Holy Roman Empire from 1500 to the
dissolution of the Empire in 1806. Besigheim is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg
in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is situated 13 km north of
Ludwigsburg at the confluence of the Neckar and Enz rivers. The town has many
old buildings and a town hall that dates back to 1459. There are two medieval
towers, gothic church, cobblestone market place and other historical objects of
interest.
Besigheim was
founded in the 12th century as a well- defended walled city. The first mention
of the city in official documentation was in 1153 in a decree by King Friedrich
I. In 1693 the fortifications
were all but destroyed by French troops, and by 1750 were little more than
rubble.
Besigheim is the
twin town of Newton Abbot, Devon in the UK.