Walking through the Old Part of Town

After I was done visiting the cathedral, I decided to go to the oldest part of town. I had never been there before and I knew I wanted to check it out before I have to leave. It was a short walk from St. Petri Dom and the main town square. Apparently this it is the only part of the town that has survived all of the wars since the middle ages. It really felt like it was built in the middle ages, too. The streets were narrow and crooked, the buildings were not perfectly straight, and the buildings were not very tall. However, it was a lively and busy area. I was there at about 5pm and there were people shopping, eating, and just walking around. It felt weird to me that this place was authentic and real. It felt like I was in Disney’s version of a town in the middle ages. 

After I was done walking around that part of the town, I started to walk back to my tram stop. I saw my tram pulling away when I was just about there and the next one would not come for another 20 minutes, so I went and walked around some more. I went into a Catholic Church called St. Johann. There were not any tourists in there, so I just sat in one of the pews for a few minutes and left. I felt like I would be disruptive to the people actually worshiping if I were to walk around and take pictures. It looked a lot like a Lutheran church that I went to in Hamburg. After I left the church, I walked through a newer (but still old) part of town. Since it was after 5pm at this point, there were many people trying to get home from work and the streets became busier. I walked to a different tram stop and took the tram home.