Living in an 800-year-old tower for the past 28 years, Blanca Knodel has had the most interesting view of the imperial town of Bad Wimpfen in southern Germany.
Though the duties of the tower keeper have changed drastically since medieval times, Ms. Knodel, who’s in her 70s, has kept plenty busy as she lives out her dream in the Blue Tower, or “Blauer Turm,” that watches over her native town and the river Neckar.
