Southern Germany region · the offbeat side of Baden-Württemberg.
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A ruined hilltop castle above Weinsberg named 'wifely loyalty' after an 1140 siege in which the town's women marched their husbands out to safety on their own backs — now a café-topped viewpoint over the vineyards.
Thirty-nine oversized painted tomcat sculptures scattered across a small Swabian wine town, each hand-decorated by a different local club or business, born from a folk legend about lovesick young men who used to meow under women's windows.
A hilltop castle above the wine town of Abstatt that survived the Peasants' War and the Thirty Years' War, then quietly became a state-run vineyard laboratory breeding new German wine grapes.
