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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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The windows to this museum display house are open; no one actually lives here, I believe they're airing it out.

#engentado #egentado #encantado #kaiserpfalzingelheim #holyromanempire

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@psetnik
It's the remains of one of eight Imperial Palaces built by/for Charlemagne/Karl der Große in the first quarter of the 9th century CE.

You can't spit without hitting the remains of a medieval castle, palace, fortification, etc in much of Europe. People living in houses with thousand year old foundations is kinda the "norm" in many places in Europe.

Here's the Imperial Palace laid out over the modern town.

#kaiserpfalzingelheim #holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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I'm not sure what this is. I'm guessing a repurposed cannon emplacement window.

I'm not 100% sure this fits with Fenster Freitag, but whaddafuck.

#Fensterfreitag #kaiserpfalzingelheim

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#Fensterfreitag #kaiserpfalzingelheim #engentado #egentado #encantado

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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Errands complete, chillin' at the moat.

#kaiserpfalzingelheim

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@MimzyDub
By all accounts, though he's interred at Aachen, the palace here was his favorite, with the vineyards, orchards, and bee gardens sparking joy.

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#kaiserpfalzingelheim #holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #livinghistory #egentado

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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Nailed it.

Chillin' at the Imperial Palace moat on the return journey.

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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She woke up just as I was sneaking out of the house, so I was Shanghai'd into doing a store run.

I decided to chill at the Heidesheimer Gate on the return journey.

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I've probably mentioned before that the Imperial Palace, despite being a "minor" seat during the Holy Roman Empire, does draw a small, but determined, tourist crowd.

These folks are here for the historical nitty gritty, not the tourist trap castles along the Rhine.

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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The remains of the Bolander tower, part of the 12th century upgrades to the Palace complex.

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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Oh, hey! 😜

They're gonna do Les Misérables (2019 french ver) at Film Night in the Aula Regia!

ikum-ingelheim.de/event/kuenst

#Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #aularegia #LesMiserables

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#egentado #holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory

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I just noticed that while the stone house incorporates the actual Imperial Palace wall, the stuccoed house is built slightly off the wall. One can kinda make out the Palace wall on the 3rd house between the two, which has a portion of wall sticking through it's roof, seemingly attached to the stucco house.

#egentado #holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory

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The scoot-chair still needs to charge, so I hobbled over to the Heidesheimer Gate.

#egentado #holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory

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Blippy the Wonder Slug 🇩🇪🇨🇦🇺🇸 · @BlippyTheWonderSlug
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Home again, home again, jiggity jig.

Some more getting medieval on your ass on the way home.

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#holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory #greenfoolery

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#holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory

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#holyromanempire #Charlemagne #karldergroße #kaiserpfalzingelheim #livinghistory

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An early 9th century window scavenged from Charlemagne's Imperial Palace incorporated into a 14th century boundary wall around St Remegius church.

As the Palace fell into disrepair, it was systematically looted for parts. Many buildings in the area still retain and feature portions of the Palace complex. Several are built right onto/into the 12th century defensive walls.

#Fensterfreitag #livinghistory #kaiserpfalzingelheim #holyromanempire

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