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Bring a little something back with you...

by MBDVB

Go into the shops that line the streets, and I'm sure you will find a little memento of your time spent in Monschau... Going into a little shop I found some very nice little mementos, and had fun trying to understand the old lady working there... and she me! Laughing is indeed universal!

The red house

by Luchonda

The Red House was erected in the 1752 by Johann Heinrich Scheibler, clothmaker and merchant, as his residence and business domicile. Furnished entirely in Rococo, Louis XVI and Empire period styles, it reflects the splendor of upper middle class living embodied in an ensemble of rare unity.
You will find a remarkable carved interior of which the central spiral staircase is a beautiful example – a juwel
The restauration was recently carried out by the city of Monschau

PS : Look at the house in front of the Red House - a kind of triangle - can people live here ?

See the Old Houses

by hquittner

There are mostly old houses in Monschau (it is stated to be about 300). The Tourist Office provides a little map and a sheet with a "walking tour". It mentions just the oldest ones. There are banners(flags) on them but no plaques with numbers (like in Vienna). You can only see what you know (Goethe). Give it a try. (We think we got them correct).The first house mentioned is the "Haus zum Turm"(1350), the oldest house, at the turn into Kirchstrasse (1). Up Kirchstrasse (#33) near the Church but on the right is a slate-covered beauty, the House Rolshausen (1589) with an evening restaurant downstairs(2), said to be the oldest one active anywhere (?), called the Grofenkeller. (We did not stay late enough to eat there). Further on the street is called Holzmarkt and is faced by the Old Town Hall (3). Finally you return down a lane to where the Rote Haus is. Next to it is the Registry Office ((an old patrician house of 1783 called the Haus Troistorff after its original draper-owner(4). Of course you will study the half-timering. Clusters of such houses hang over the bank of the Rur. (5).

Well preserved houses from the middle ages

by robertgaz

"Monschau"

One of my favourite places to visit in Germany is the beautiful medieval town of Monschau. It is located in the hilly Eifel area of North Rhineland-Westphalia about 30km's south of Aachen near the Dutch-German border.

Monschau has remarkably well preserved houses that are centuries old and the town is surrounded by a peaceful, hilly landscape. Some of the houses are half timbered and brightly coloured with high slate roofs.

Many thanks to all my VT friends who have visited and rated these Monschau page to make it my second Top 5 page :~)

"Map of Monschau"

I have circled Monschau on the map.

Monschau, Germany

by MBDVB

"The little town of Monschau, Germany..."

I drove into this sleepy little village on the recommendation of a friend who had visited there with his wife. And I thought it was well worth stopping for on the drive to Paris! I wish we'd had more time!!!
We had stayed overnight in Eschweiler, after spending the day in Cologne, and Monschau was only about 25km out of our way. We arrived at approximately 9:00am, and the town had yet to really wake up. It was a beautiful, crisp Fall morning, with the babbling brook narrating our walk through the town.
Monschau is at the bottom of a winding road down a small mountainside, and the drive in, along with the drive out, were terrific. I plan on going back at Christmastime, as it promises to be quite a sight.