Around the corner is the Hunting Lodge of Baron Rothschild.
The servant wing (right) is in the English Tudor style,
while the actual castle (left) is in the French Renaissance style
often seen in the Loire River Valley.
It was built in the 1880s, but when his sister did not approve of the architecture,
the Baron gave the whole estate away to the Imperial Army.
When I worked for the Army many years ago,
I was an architectural consultant to the architects who
renovated the building.
After our little visit we took a little walk and saw some beautiful villas.
Even the villas from the 1930s look great.
This was first owned by an Imperial Arch-Duke,
later it was the seat of the head of forestry administration.
The Nazi party made it its HQ during World War II.
Then we went to the Villa Wartholz and their beautiful garden shops.
We had coffee under these eight plane trees whose
branches were bound to grow horizontally to
provide excellent shade.
The coffee was excellent.
Sexy grounds keepers...
Beautiful vegetable gardens....
A couple of gazebos....
The shop/cafe had a wonderful reading room;
with a golden frog;
and a little boutique for lovely tchatchkies.
Ah, and the chocolate selection!
Oh, yes, I miss that chocolate selection. Please bring to Spain the sexy groundskeeper.
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