Barrel Building
Castle cellar housing a colossal eighteenth-century oak wine cask topped by a dance floor.
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This guide to the Barrel Building at Heidelberg Castle starts with a crime story long told about the giant cask in its cellar, and asks whether the suspects could ever have been in the room. It follows the tithe wine that Palatinate growers owed their rulers, and the court parties in the King's Hall next door. Stand close to the oak staves when you listen.
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