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| Kaffeehaus in Sindelfingen, near the market square |
After
breakfast at the Hotel am Klostersee on December 8th, while Chris was giving his presentation at the
Stadthalle round the corner, I took the opportunity to wander through the streets of
Sindelfingen, which by 10 o'clock in the morning had hardly woken up.
Sindelfingen ist traditionell Automobilstandort ...
Around the edges it's a residential district for employees at the
Mercedes-Benz plant and associated establishments, as is the neighbouring town of Böblingen. The previous day I'd taken a
train into Stuttgart from Goldberg station––a 3km walk in the rain from our hotel up one side of the Goldberg (hill) and down the other, during which I had to consult the street map several times under my umbrella, but with a better sense of direction on the way back I found a short cut, a path through the houses.
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| Hansel and Gretel's witch |
The older part of town, around
St. Martin's church on the hill behind our hotel, has less of a modern feel to it, with eye-catching corners.
Martin's best remembered saintly act was to give his cloak to a beggar who was feeling the cold, as a modern sculpture outside the Sindelfingen church portrays. There were several other sculptures around the streets and squares, and in a shopping mall, temporary displays of scenes from Christmassy fairy stories. Another thing worth mentioning is that we found a great place for supper on the market square, the
Fässle. This was such a good pub that we patronised it three nights in a row.
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| Streets of old Sindelfingen |
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| Facing St. Martin's church |
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| Gossips at the fountain, old Sindelfingen |
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| This sculpture gave my husband a fright |
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| In the market square, Sindelfingen |
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