Well, today was the day I went to a new city, but there were a few things I discovered late in Trier, and wanted to do before I left Trier. First stop was more or less accidental, which was the Church of Our Lady, which is a church right next to the major Trier Cathedral, it’s kind of 2 different buildings conjoined, there’s a hallway between the two. And this is just a neat nearly 800 year old church, which is pretty young for Europe.

One of the 2 details I had planned today next was the Stadtbibliothek Schatzkammer. Or Trier Library Treasure Chamber, and it has really old things. Since it’s a library it has really old books, so stand aside Book of Kells, because here is a whole chamber of really, really old books. It has over 2 dozen early, high, and late medieval manuscripts, song books, an old Muslim prayer book, an old Hebrew book, bibles of all kinds, as well as a few books interpreting the bible, and expanding on it. It also has 2 large 400 year old globes, one surprisingly and quite accurately depicting the lands all over the world, the other one a really cool globe depicting the Heavens, and it even shows Halley’s Comet. One of the treasures is a 1200 year old book owned by Charles the Great, also known as Carlo Magno, and best known as Charlemagne. But the real treasure of the chamber is one the the Gutenberg Bibles. A bible printed in Latin, using Johannes Gutenberg’s incredible printing press. Only 49 of these bibles still exist in the world, and are considered to be among the most expensive books out there. 1978 is the last time one was even sold. No pictures were allowed inside, so I’ll try and find some from online.

The next thing on my to-do list was the Benedictine Monastery of St. Matthias. A really neat church, mostly on the outside, and alright on the inside. But there is a ‘treasure’ allegedly buried underneath the altar. I’ll post up the image and give the explanation. I like to build up tension and drama. And maybe a little curiosity.

Anyways as I made my way back to the hotel from the Monastery, it started raining off and on quite lightly. Right after I left my hotel after picking up my bag it started raining hard. Really hard, just like yesterday, and it was a heavy rain as I walked by the Kaiserthermen – Imperial Bathhouse, just like yesterday… And it was a long walk from hotel to trainstation, but maybe 3 quarters of the way through it stopped and became quite sunny only moments later.

So then I got on the train, and took a relatively short train ride to my next city! To the state of Saarland, and to the city of Saarbrücken. This now makes 16/16 of all German states that I have visited. (Including a couple from my last trip that I avoided this time.) Though by the time I got here, it was already somewhat later, and decided just to save the visiting for tomorrow. Random update: As for the orange blindfolds on the statues, I asked a couple different hotel receptionists, and neither of them had any idea, so it was probably just some publicity stunt by some individuals, or a group. They were still up on the statues today even at the palace, so they must be tolerated to some extent. I’m also fairly close now to the Ramstein Airbase, but tours have to be scheduled far ahead of time, and in a group minimum of 10. But I’m also sort of near the legendary Frankenstein Castle, so I’ll have to think on that too, it’s really really far out of the way though, so probably not.

Here’s a couple videos I took yesterday in Trier that I didn’t get to post due to very slow video uploading: