Hardenberg Ruins

Today I took a mini-trip with my roommate Elizabeth out to the Hardenberg ruins north of Göttingen about 1.5 hours by bike (in Nörten-Hardenberg).  We heard that some of her friends went there this weekend and got pictures from inside.  Sadly, the only reason they got in was because there was a wedding there.  For us, it was locked and said that it was too dangerous inside in some parts without a guide along.  So we just walked around the outside and took pictures and biked back, stopping to pick up an ice cream on the way.

Since there were no information packets and no tour, I don't have a lot of information on the castle and couldn't even find much online other than a lot of people ran into it when it was closed and just got outside pictures.  Nörten-Hardenberg's tourism part of their website says that it was built in the 11th century and is Baroque-style. The wavy looking rocks you see in some of the pictures are chalk.  The first picture I stole from Wikipedia in my search, but it gives a better overview of the castle than we could take up close.  The rest are mine!  More after Munich this weekend!

A wall lizard (common in Europe, but my first lizard in nature anywhere!) from the chalk rubble. They were everywhere!