Monschau, Germany
On the
Get our cool box in the car with couple of bottles of drinks, sandwiches and chips for
along the way.
We arrived Monschau around 5plus in the evening hours and we had a short walk around the place after our dinner.
The historic town center was not destroyed in World
War II, thus the many half-timbered houses and narrow streets nearly unchanged
for 300 years make it a popular tourist attraction nowadays. Historically the
main industry of the town were cloth-mills.
Above the city is the castle Monschau, which dates
back to the 13th century — in 1198 the first mention of Monschau was made.
Starting in 1433 the castle was used as a seat of the dukes of Jülich. In 1543
Emperor Charles V. besieged it as part of the Geldern Feud, captured it and
plundered the town. However the castle stayed with Jülich until 1609, then it
became part of Palatinate-Neuburg.
The room was ok but not that big, upon entering we noticed a defected light at the desk but that was within a short time fixed again by one of the staff. So good service I think. There’s even an indoor pool. Breakfast buffet offered a good start of your day. All in all Carat Hotel is a fine hotel to stay in if you’re thinking of visiting Monschau.
Monschau is a place worth to visit, is located in the hills of the Eifel, in the narrow valley of the Rur river.
The nearest big city is Aachen and is closed to Belgium and the Netherlands too.
