A village, a castle and Stuttgart

The first stop of the day was at the Fuggerei township. It was build in the early 1500s or so and was for the poor the city to have some where to live. To live there you had to be Catholic and only earn so much a year. The rent for one of the apartments or houses was only about .88 cents a year. Even today that is only about the amount you still pay to live there.

Next we drove for a while and then saw the Hohenzollern Castle. It is still the castle for the Prussian Royal family. The castle itself was rebuilt three different times over the years. The last time in the 1800s. They still host guest and the crown prince of the family still comes, visits and stays there sometimes.  It is huge and we were able to go into one of the cellars which, expanded and goes pretty far underground.

We stopped for the night in Stuttgart and went to the  Mercedes Benz Museum while we were there. It showed the history if the cars and how they developed and got better over the years. The museum also had  a section showing the racing history of Mercedes Benz and all the different trophies they had won of the years.