Eggenberg

On Wednesday, we went to Schloss Eggenberg. Schloss means castle or palace. Parts of Eggenberg date back to the Middle Ages. It boasted 365 windows throughout the entire castle, rooms for each hour of the day and night, 31 windows just in the staterooms. It was a very mathematical castle, and really beautiful.

Walking up to Eggenberg

Schloss Eggenberg

This is how Eggenberg looks from the air - photo by University

A peacock met us by the door

  

The bell tower as seen from the courtyard

The oldest part of Eggenberg, the Gothic Chapel of Our Lady dating from the Middle Ages

The planet room - the 4 seasons were portrayed in each corner and the room boasted images for each month as well as the planets

One of the corners - fall, I believe

A picture of the Pisces painting

The next pictures are all of Eggenberg as we walked through. There were over 300 Italian painters who painted these pictures, but proper credit cannot be given because they didn't sign their names. Sign your names, people! My pictures don't do these justice, but it's all I have.

This is a pic representing all the planets

The painters didn't know what an Indian looked like, so they painted a European in a parrot costume

The whole room

Looking outside from Eggenberg

The workroom where paintings are lightened (they darken due to age)

Looking back through all the rooms we've walked through - notice the doors are now blue - the 12 night rooms have blue doors

This is the only bed that survived Russian occupation after WWII. 

Notice the white doors now - these are daytime rooms

Chinese porcelain

Outside, we got to spend a little more time with the peacocks:

Ever wondered what the back of a peacock looks like? Wonder no more.

The garden was beautiful. They had many peonies in bloom:

And of course, dessert: eis schokolade: