october: freudenberg and frauenstein.

one sunday i made a walk around frauenstein, starting at freudenberg castle. the castle ground is part of a holistic project, that is actually pretty difficult to explain, because it's got to do with experiencing things, with sensing and feeling and taking in visual, sensual, emotional experiences. it is 'a field of experience for the sense and mind'. there are barefoot walks in the park and other activities. inside the castle you can experience a conglomeration of things, such as an ice cold chamber, several dark rooms to experience sense of touch or sense of taste and different sound spaces. i haven't been inside the castle yet ( but it's on my agenda, as soon as i find someone who wants to go with me, i suppose '_' ), but i've been visiting the castle gardens and parks a lot in those years i've been living here and it's seriously one of my favourite places in wiesbaden. for this walk though, i didn't stay at the castle grounds but walked further into the frauenstein borough and finally ended up making a circular hike around frauenstein. frauenstein is a little village at the outskirts of wiesbaden, the gate to the rheingau region, actually. it is perfectly situated in a beautiful wood area with a very decent view out onto the rhine and vineyard mountains.

the garden grounds of castle freudenberg. they accommodate several horticultural gardens with different approaches ( but they all have in common that they're as natural and ecological as possible ).

autumn was in with full force.

those sticks with the bullets on them are actually insect nesting boxes.

view from the gardens onto frauenstein.

for me it is always a pleasure to see the bright coloured leaves.

the gate of the rheingau.

i met some sheep along the way.

random creepy looking satellite thing. maybe it was something entirely different, but since it reminded me of alien abduction or something to do with space and universe, this was my conclusion xD

vineyard trees.

yes, vines do change their leaf colours, too!

arriving in frauenstein i decided to climb up the castle tower to have a better view onto the village.

frauenstein castle, or what is left of it.

on my way back to freudenberg i passed by the sheeps again.

freudenberg castle.

i just loved the abstract image of this installation.

november: kickelhahn, himmelblau & weimar cemetery.

i had a week off in november and visited my parents ( as i often do on my vacations ). on a sunday morning we headed to the thuringian forest to climb onto the peak of the kickelhahn mountain. the kickelhahn mountain is the landmark mountain of the city of ilmenau . johann wolfgang von goethe , the famous writer & philosopher, often visited ilmenau and also climbed the kickelhahn. oftentimes he stopped at a little hut in the woods to relax for a while and on one of these stops he wrote one of his most known poems. our little adventure didn't last the whole day, though, as we had a little date with the weimar cemetery to look after the grave of my grandparents and then to visit my cousin and his family. tiny peek onto the kickelhahn tower. thuringian woods - deep dark green. at the goethe hut. this plate shows the german version of the poem goethe wrote here. inside the hut. and here's the english translation. i love this poem so much, as ...

in the forests.

it's that time of the year again.

july '20: lake petersdorf discoveries and a plea against genocide.

the green wild meadows of malchow's sandfeld. in the west of malchow there is a big chunk of forest that spans towards plauer see, a widely 'uncultivated' area these days, but it hasn't always been this way. in my last post i mentioned the nazi munition factory that had been built in these woods, away from prying eyes of their enemies and where they also built an external subcamp for the concentration camp ravensbrück. exactly these woods we explored on a pretty sunny day, betraying the darkness that happened around these parts. isn't it weird that there are places in this world that were built or used by dark forces and horrible regimes and you vist them 80 years later and they are the most peaceful places you can imagine? sometimes my brain can't cope with the contrast of knowing what was in the past and what the present looks and feels like. it definitely leaves me with a strange impression often, kind of like a little sting in my heart and brain that is not ...

ghost of nature.

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