Trip to the Balkans

 The Start

My brother and his wife visited us, and we went with them on a trip. It started in Engelberg. We visited the monastery there, and  a wood carving shop. 

The city has many lovely bronzes. 

We looked into a small chapel.

And then the large, monastery church.

To be continued….

Blessed Easter Sunday

 Christ is Risen!

Alleluia! The tomb is empty. 

Holy Saturday

 Wangen City Tour

Again.

This City started in the mid-800‘s. At first it belonged to the cloister of St. Gallen. Then it was the crossroads of two major trade routes: north-south and east-west. It was attacked once in its history, by a neighboring noble with thirty men. That is memorialized in a fresco on one building. It was not bombed in WWII, so its old, old buildings are still standing and in use. Most of them are from the 1500‘s, because a fire destroyed the wooden buildings that made up the town before that. You will see some businesses in town with 1400‘s inscribed in them.

Getting ready for Easter.

City tour

City Hall and City church (St. Martin’s) and City gate from 1300‘s.

St. Martin’s Gate

Fresco of Jonah story, from 1500‘s

The gate to the graveyard, the leper house, and the gallows.

The cemetery outside the city walls, first used for plague victims, then soldiers. Now a park.it has a very old Romanesque church with wonderful paintings. 

Ceiling depicting the life of Christ 

The offering box

Blessed Easter preparations.