Memories and hints of a travelling IT professional.
The Alter Stadtfriedhof is the vast former cemetery of Göttingen, Germany. It was created in 1879 at the border to the village Grone which is now a city quarter. It contains wide alleyways, a nice chapel, a lake and many graves of important persons.
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Gut Herbigshagen near Duderstadt, Germany is the headquarters of the Heinz-Sielmann-Stiftung, a nature protection organisation founded in 1994. Their goals are to get children in contact with nature and to protect endangered species. The founder Heinz Sielmann is also buried here. Continue reading “Gut Herbigshagen”
The Tannenkamp is a small mountain with a wonderful forest close to the city quarter Kattenbühl of Hann. Münden, Germany. On top you will find an open-air stage (the Freilichtbühne Tannenkamp) and the best forest to play in – with nice little valleys to explore, mountains to climb and small paths to follow between the trees. Continue reading “Tannenkamp”
The Klusteich or the Klusteiche (the rear one is inaccessible and a protected nature reserve) are lakes near the Schedetal between Volkmarshausen (belonging to Hann. Münden) and Scheden. After parking your car at the Schede river you have to walk some meters into the forest. Continue reading “Klusteich”
The Kleiner Steinberg within the Kaufunger Wald close to Hann. Münden, Germany is a 541 meters high mountain consisting of basalt and brown coal. Both materials were mined there for centuries – until 1961. The old main building is today the Waldpädagogikzentrum Haus Steinberg (an educational facility) and the mining areas now form several small lakes. Continue reading “Kleiner Steinberg”
Close to the Waldpädagogikzentrum Haus Steinberg and not far from the Kleiner Steinberg mountain you can find a medieval wooden village. It exists from 2004 on and is an educational and not archaeological project. School classes can spend a week there, help to construct the village and learn how life was at that time. Continue reading “Mittelalterliches Dorf Steinrode”
The Freilichtbühne Tannenkamp high above Hann. Münden, Germany is a wonderful place for cultural events. It is located in a beautiful forest and has a stage, a house for today’s necessary technical equipment, simple seats and two rings around made of stone where you can also sit. Continue reading “Freilichtbühne”
The Steinbach or Wandersteinbach begins in the Kaufunger Wald somewhere close to the Rinderstall in Hann. Münden, Germany and runs through a nice valley down the hill via Bonaforth into river Fulda. Along the river there is a well-known path to walk along. Continue reading “Steinbachtalweg”
The reason why the two stones have been placed at the Steinbachtal near the ‘Franzosenbrücke‘ at Hann. Münden, Germany is a bad one: two merchants have been killed there in 1614, Johann Kessler and Georg Schmalkalden von Saltz. They have been robbed and died there on their way back home. Continue reading “Mordsteine”
If you walk up through the Steinbachtal from Bonaforth, Hann. Münden, Germany you have to go steadily up the hill and might need some rest and fresh water. And that is exactly what the Jochenbrunnen offers you – if you’re able to find it. Continue reading “Jochenbrunnen”