november: foggy vineyards.

i visited hattenheim on a foggy november day and made a little walk around the town. if the city of hattenheim was a person its job would be winemaker and grower. it's a typical rheingau location, everyone's living for the wine and its kind of great, this community. at least that's what my brain tells me.

wine arches.

a tiny bit of reichartshausen castle, which is part of the european business school campus.

i don't what these signs are for, but my guess is some kind of identification mark for the vineyards.

golden vineyards in the fog.

the european business school also has a burmese temple on its site, which actually seems to be a present from the burmese dictator junta to an armament manufacturer based in the rheingau region. ( this story is really dirty and complex, but if you want to read more, here's a german article about it all. )

the european business school itself has been on the news pretty frequently the past years, as well. talk about business people and their dirty laundry. it's also in the news very often because of various initiation rituals of students that involve vandalism, excessive parties and the like. so... yeah, a pretty wild private institution. and everything happens behind the beautiful old walls of the castle in a region that is known for it's natural beauty.

i moved on through hattenheim city.

the 'city hall' of hattenheim. it's such a beautiful timber framed house!

hattenheim castle.

modern architecture meets medieval one.

next to the church st. vincent is this crucifixion group.

walking by the church.

the leaves of this maple tree were extraordinarily beautiful.

walking back to my car i passed by this old house with the best door.

on my way back to wiesbaden i drove by the state farm neuhof. the fog was pretty heavy up here and the sceneries were a bit haunting.

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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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