Handschuhsheim
Old village quarter around a moated castle ruin, a little manor and painters' family roots.
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This guide to Handschuhsheim in Heidelberg starts at the Tiefburg, the moated castle ruin at the old village's heart, and with a young painter who once sat down to draw it. It follows a drawing master, the Rottmann family estate across the square, and two boys who learned their craft from the same man in the early eighteen hundreds. Best heard standing between the castle and the little manor facing it.
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