A sunny, warm day. We had a hard time following the route, and decided that one wrong turn tires us as much as 10 km of riding.
We rode through and past Deggendorf, notable not only for its 1350 pogrom in which they burned out the Jews, but for the annual religious festival celebrating the event which the bishop of Regensburg only suppressed in 1968. The Nazis built on a long tradition of anti-semitism. They didn't invent it, and of course Germany had no monopoly on it. Anyway, we felt no need to stop or stay in Deggendorf.
We did stop in the sleepy village of Hofkirchen and stayed at the Gasthof Buckner where Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, stayed in 1745 on his way home from his coronation at Frankfurt. A comfortable but modest inn; don't know if we got the Emperor's room or not.
No comments:
Post a Comment