november: revisiting limburg / early christmas markets in rüdesheim & wiesbaden.

i've been to limburg a few times already and revisit again ever so often, it's just a beautiful town with its medieval core. my parents visited me at the end of november so they could catch some early christmas markets in my region. so the reason for making the trip to limburg was just this, visit the local christmas market. unfortunately it wasn't that much of a burner, but it was still great to wander the narrow and crooked streets of the city.

i adore those tiny alleyways.

christmas decorations.

the hattstein fountain, commonly known as the drunkard fountain ;)

through wisdom a house is built & with reason it's maintained.

a glimpse of the cathedral.

more beautiful timberframed houses.

someday i want to live in such a house.

castle & cathedral.

tiny branch-off of the river lahn.

sneaking up on herons.

the cathedral from afar,

six of seven sins.

this beautiful house had painted timber frames.

metal birds tweeting their love to each other.

tiny faces on a church bell attachment.

behind the cathedral the castle is situated. here we are in the courtyard.

figurines on my most favourite house in limburg.

in the evening we drove to rüdesheim to visit the christmas market.

rüdesheim always beats itself with its decorations every year.

i especially loved this wine bottle case christmas tree!

huge glowing snowman on the roof a house.

twinkling lights everywhere.

the brömserhof estate always has a merry-go-round in the courtyard at christmas time.

next to the brömserhof is the mang'sches haus.

mang'sches haus in full glory.

bingen by night. bingen is right on the other side of the rhine.

my mother looking gangster in a passage underway. i really like this photo.

on my parent's last day we were taking a stroll over the christmas market of wiesbaden. i didn't take a lot of pictures, but i still wanted to show these anyways.

friedrich schiller looking sophisticated in front of the hessian state theatre... and an mountain alp. talk about cultural clashes.

this father christmas was bedecked in jewels and galore and i liked it pretty much.

another window decoration. fox and snowflake tree <3 p="">

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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