Travel tips: Further along the Romantic Road : Wurzburg, Volksach, Rudesheim - Germany

Wurzburg is a big city, compared to Bamburg or Rothenburg, with a typical German castle on the hill. It has a few large monuments and churches, modern trams, cafes for people watching  and main chain stores.  The surrounding countryside is full of yellow flat harvested wheat fields, maize, Franken vineyards and a few forests.  Logging and agricultural farming sees all the landscape dotted with tiny drive through villages and farmhouses.  

                 marktplatz side street 

          Main Square 

Volksach is a delightful small village also on the Maine and has a cute main square, reminiscent of France’s Mulhouse, with a lovely hotel on the main square, small boutique shops, and a lovely shaded beer garden with vines. It’s one main winding street from the square hosts plenty of traditional German style houses, cafes, ice-salon and smaller hotels. There is also a tall old medieval watch tower at the city entrance.  I like small and the amount of tourists and size make it a perfect afternoon visit.

The hotel 

Part of the main street which runs about one kilometre

Main square church and Rathuis (city hall) 

                    Boats along the river Maine 

   Plenty of colourful houses 

Along the Romantic road route there are many smaller villages along every few kilometres of the long winding country road.  Its rolling hills resemble Luxembourg, England and Welsh countryside in terms of height and contour. 

Wertheim is a small city that hosts a castle on the hill and Bad Mergentheim Is also worth stopping at. Small but cute and also delightful German architecture in clean cared for streets with traditional buildings.

Bad Mergentheim village centre fountain

Typical medieval city watch towers at the entrance 

Always colourfully painted church towers and houses

En route back to the Netherlands north, we visited  Rüdesheim am Rhein. It has an old fashioned  cable car to the Niederwaldmonument for a bird’s eye view over Germanian wine fields and the green Rhine valleys. There are a few traditional beer gardens, cruises to Cologne and Frankfurt and of course customary hotels decorated in Germanic style. 

View over the Moessel after Rusesheim

That’s all folks, happy travelling!