August 2015
After working in the archive in the town of Kempen, our next stop was Blomberg. It's another darling town in a completely different style from Kempen. It has Fachwerk buildings galore (we sometimes call this style Tudor in the U.S.). Sometimes archive work is hard and tedious but the villages are charming. If we finish our work early we can walk around and enjoy them.
Our archive was in a former Jewish Synagogue (used before the Jews were evicted from town). They left the Torah cupboard and you can see it on the wall in front of Roger.
The Blomberg city archive
Roger is hard at work
Jeanne scanning a very old document
The women's loft in the synagogue
The Fachwerk houses are gorgeous
And you meet interesting people....
School was starting soon. The cones on the right of this store
window are filled with candy by the parents
and given to their children on the first day of school.
We love Blomberg!
Oh, how I love those German villages! It somehow hurts my heart to see you there and not be able to be there, myself. I need to move to Germany so badly. Fachwerk is one of my favorite styles of architecture, especially paired with window boxes and trailing flowers! I'm so glad dad has such a wonderful research assistant. ;)
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