"weekend in Alsfeld" Alsfeld by brendareed

Comments (4)

• • Report abuse
  
  Nemorino Jan 6, 2013 at 11:22 AM

  Alsfeld certainly has restored and preserved its historic half-timbered buildings in a big way. This no doubt happened in the twentieth century in a phase when energy was cheap. In the 21st century heating costs have gone up so much that the problem arises of how to insulate these houses. If you put insulation on the outside (for instance slate shingles such as you noticed) you again conceal the half-timbered structure, but it you put the insulation on the inside you make the rooms even smaller than they already are. My advice about half-timbered houses is to enjoy looking at them, but don't buy one.

  • • Report abuse
    
    brendareed Jan 7, 2013 at 11:41 PM

    Thanks, Don, for all your nice comments and ratings on my Alsfeld page! The half-timbered houses are beautiful but definitely not something I'd be interested in purchasing. We used to own a 100 year old farmhouse and that was quite enough work on the upkeep and heating - always interesting are all the little surprises that you find when trying to do repairs :-) ~Brenda

  
• • Report abuse
  
  CatherineReichardt Jan 1, 2013 at 1:07 AM

  A fairytale location indeed!
  It strikes me that if we were to visit, we could flesh out the fairytale by bringing our own Wolf with us - who is getting bigger by the day and, onm occasion, can be very bad indeed!
  Such a pleasure as always to read your accounts and enjoy your wonderful photos!
  Happy New Year to you, Tom and the family (including the most perfect grandson in the world)!

  • • Report abuse
    
    brendareed Jan 1, 2013 at 6:11 AM

    Hi Cathy! Thanks for stopping by Alsfeld! It was a cute town; the only thing better would've been no rain. I am sure your Wolf is enjoying being a typical young boy that just delights in prematurely graying his mum's hair ;-)
    Thanks for the good wishes on 2013 - we plan to have a great year - and my adorable grandson will become a big brother this year (unfortunately during Sibiu so I've pre-empted my EuroMeet plans to head to the States in June).
    Hoping you, Markus, and the kids have a travel-packed, fun-filled 2013!
    ~Brenda

  
• Reply

  • Report abuse
  
  Trekki Jul 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM

  Oh what a marvellous little town this is, although I felt sad that you had so much rain during your visit! I loved the parking sign with the Euro coins, never saw that before :-) And their tourist board seems to have learned the lessons - signs and plaques in English! Oh, so you also look for the old measuring signs! Next time when you are in Heidelberg, look for the Pretzel sign at the major church. Christine once pointed it out to me. Interesting story about this Dr. Kober and also the founder of Birkenstock shoes. I wonder where in the history they have lost the "c" of the inventor's original name. I love that little Platz where Gänseliesel statue stands :-))
  Wonderful Sunday morning read, dear Brenda :-))
  (and external mail with further information following :-)

  
• Reply

  • Report abuse
  
  Kuznetsov_Sergey Jun 25, 2012 at 5:13 AM

  Thank you Brenda for the great idea to visit this city out of Deutsches Märchenstrasse that I missed still when explored this part of Germany. Beautiful half-timbered houses from Fairy tales!