It was about a 30 minute drive to get to the very cute town of Berching. It is one of only a few German cities still entirely ringed by a defensive wall.  We visited Nördlingen in August 2012 when we were travelling on the Romantic Road, there we were able to walk the full length of its wall. So that makes 2 of the few!

Unlike Nördlingen, there was only part of the wall we could walk on here, but we did walk around the rest of its length.

It was pretty low in places, so Mick needed to be careful. He is already sporting a nasty head wound from the horses’ hay storage room.

We visited the tourist office and for €1 purchased a walking tour map, in English, that took us around the town.

This photo shows the start of the walk on the wall, which was possibly only one tenth the length of the wall. The other sections seemed to be in use as private homes, or part there of.

Mick and I were interested to read in the guide that the first written document about Berching dated back to March 883, when a great-grand son of Charlemagne, called Charles the Fat, granted a chapel to someone. Just goes to show even if you are rich and important, you can still have a silly name.

One of the town’s churches – Pfarrkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Assumption of the Blessed Virgin) was built in 1488, and is supposed to be one of the most beautiful and architecturally valuable churches in the region.

It certainly was impressive, and cool. Today the temperature reached 31°C.

The next photo shows an amazing house with a pear tree on its facade. The tree was definitely built into the wall and was heavily ladened with fruit.

Mick took the tour very seriously.

The next photo shows a barn with a very long name – Fürstbischöflicher Zehentstadel. Those of you who have studied German will recognise some words here like ‘bishop’ and ‘ten’. This barn was built in 1464 to allow the bishop-prince to store the corn collected as a tithe (a tenth part of the corn crop) paid regularly by farmers.

I love the plastic chairs out the front – Circa 2012. 🤣

The construction of the Main-Danube Canal brought about significant changes to this old town. It was opened in 1992.

I took a photo of us in front of the Danube. We will see it again in a few weeks when we are in Vienna.

We enjoyed a traditional Bavarian lunch here in a restaurant attached to a private brewery.

This is not a photo of the restaurant, but it is cute.

We’d strongly recommend a visit.