About 12 miles north of Rothenburg is the little town of Weikersheim. Even after all of our time here over the years and another visit to Rothenburg, we never went to Weikersheim. Well .... The palace where many generations of counts and princes lived is around 400 years old and is an impressively well preserved place. The main room inside is almost half a football field in size and is overwhelming in the paintings, animal 3D reliefs, and pristine flooring ... again, not altered in almost 400 years.

But the real treat was in the garden which rivaled Versailles on a smaller scale ... wow!