When my friend Liz lived in Germany, she and I would go exploring. One lovely spring day she suggested a trip to the nearby town of Weinstadt. 
It lies in the Rems Valley, a region known for vinyards and orchards. 
Weinstadt has charming villages, wooded hills, wine and sculptures… all mixed together.
Weinstadt is actually five towns that joined together in 1975: Beutelsbach, Endersbach, Großheppach, Schnait and Strümpfelbach.
We walked through the streets and the Sculpture Trails in the latter two (Strümpfelbach and Schnait).
Weinstadt’s slogan is „Kultur trifft Natur“ or “Art Meets Nature”. 
A family with three (3!) generations of artists reside in Weinstadt. It is their art that decorates this already gorgeous area.
Bronze and stone sculptures are tucked into bushes and vinyards, yards and walls.
Professor Karl Ulrich Nuss first started the Scupture Route initiative. Karl is in the middle of the art dynasty that includes his father Professor Fritz Nuss (1907-1999), and two grandchildren of Fritz: Christoph Traub (born in 1964) and Felix Engelhardt (born in 1970).
Liz and I wandered through the vinyard’s sloped hills with our cameras.
Spring was running riot with blooming trees and flowers everywhere. 
The flowering Nature made the perfect backdrop to the artwork …
or was it the other way around? 
NOTES: http://www.weinstadt.de/de/Home
Amongst other places, Fritz Nuss’s work is displayed in the British Museum and the Liederhalle in Stuttgart.
Photos Copyright © 2013 Jadi Campbell. (All photogaphs can be enlarged by simply clicking on the image.)