april: knocking on death's door.

my favourite place to hang out in wiesbaden is definitely the north cemetery. i have to visit it at least once a year, and make it a goal every autumn. for this particular visit, though, i skipped the autumn tradition, as my friend and cemetery partner in crime l. wanted to really explore one of the wiesbaden graveyards with me in april. so we headed out on this beautiful spring day and rediscovered this gemstone in a different light.

with all the green leaves and fresh buds the cemetery appeared like a garden eden to me. the magnificent statues surely add to that!

favourite crypt. you can sit outside on lithic benches and cradle your inner goth very nicely :)

der herr ist mein licht

und mein heil

wer sollte ihn fürchten?

the lord is my light

and my salvation

who should be frightened by him?

one of the perfect lithic stone benches i mentioned earlier.

mossy grave beds galore.

eagle in the shadow.

spider webbed maiden.

i will always be mesmerized by how they crafted the fabric foldings on statues back in the day.

another weeping maiden.

flowy angel creature.

a monolith sculpture in the jewish cemetery.

of course plants catched my again.

those intricate wrought-iron crosses from the 19th century are definitely favourites of mine.

huckleberry blossoms! i love these.

you can find those model angels all over the place.

i feel like every single statue would be even more fantastic if they wouldn't have wings.

a rather heart-warming monument.

this one is probably the best crypt on the whole cemetery.

and maybe this guy here is the absolution. unf.

otherworldly and breathtaking.

saying goodbye to this world. see you on the other side.

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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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