Downtown Munster

We toured downtown Munster today, and learned a bunch about the catholic church. There are a ton of churches in Europe and those are the historical attractions.
This church was made in 1108 (ish):

Each catholic church has "baptismal". There is a "dove of peace" on the top of the lid. Inside is "holy water" and this is where they perform baptisms.

This church is black on the top because of the polution over the years. There are 3 cages on top of the steeple. They used to put people who made fun of the catholic church up there to die, for everyone to see. Obviously, they don't do that anymore. The stain glass window and ceiling is really pretty inside.

This is a grand cathedral. It was bombed in WWII so it has been restored. It is ginormous. This stain glass window was my favorite. McCord liked the astronomical clock that was made in 1520. It has a hand for the sun, moon, earth, and stars (jupiter, mars, venus). It was the most accurate time clock made for that time. To think that this clock was made 30 yrs after Columbus landed in America.

Tradition: Guys that turn 30 years old and have not married yet, have to wear a funny costume and sweep stairs (covered in debris that their friends scatter on them) of the city hall until he gets 30 kisses from 30 different girls. We had the privilege of seeing this tradition.

BRATWURST! This is the famous bratwurst man. The brats were amazing and we paid 1.70 E for each one. They were fantastic and we all ordered in german only to find out that he spoke English the whole time.

I thought it was interesting that the Germans bundled their babies up in little mummy bag lookin' things, and then put them in the stroller. So there were a lot of mummy-bag babies.