On the way back from our trip to Rottweil, Jan and I stopped off at a place called Horb am Neckar. The carpark we originally selected on the sat nav actually turned out to be on a hill above the town, so we stopped there first and took some photos of the view.
My camera’s battery ran out not long after I took the photo above, so most of the rest of the images in this post are Jan’s – the reason I’m only writing about this now is because he only gave me access to said photos after I got back from England.
Horb has a population of around 25,000, but when we arrived at 7 pm on a Saturday evening, everything was closed and we didn’t see a single one of the residents. All the better for taking photos 😉
The town hall in Horb had some pretty interested decoration on it:
I got Jan to take the photo below for me because of the cool ship sign, then we walked up the hill to the church you can see on the right.
The church is the Stiftskirche, or collegiate church, and stands at the highest point in the town. The view from up there is very nice!
I love the little red house!
The next thing we spotted was the Schurkenturm. A Schurke is German for a villain, but I’m not sure whether the name of the tower has aynthing to do with that…
This sculpture close to the tower was pretty cute:
It’s a stack of pillows (or cushions), all on top of each other.
Horb is a pretty little town, and if we’d stayed a bit longer there would have been some other towers we could look at, and we could also have gone down to the Neckar and had a walk along its banks. But it was already getting late and we still had an hour to drive back, plus it seemed like it was about to start raining, so we decided to leave. It was definitely worth taking the time to stop off in this cute town though!
Confuzzledom 
Too many damn cute German towns everywhere!
I know! And so little time to see them all!
I do love Fachwerkhäuser… not so common in Bavaria, though.
The cushions 🙂
They’re all over the place here… something to do with the Schwarzwald I suspect.
I love the last picture! That building and the square look so lovely! It seems like an incredible place to spend a long afternoon just wandering around and finding the little hidden gems all around the city.
It is beautiful. I’m not sure how long you could wander roud though – it’s fairly small.
This was my mother’s hometown. I grew up here every summer visiting my Oma. The Schurkenturm was always my favorite. The name comes from it being a Hanging Tower.