march + april: cemetery culture & easter egg walk.

in late march i met up with my dearest friend l. from frankfurt to check out one of the cemeteries in her neighborhood, the hauptfriedhof höchst. it was opened in 1925, so it's still a young cemetery, but it still offered a few beautiful statues.

angels watching over everything at the entry to the cemetery.

outdoor columbarium.

cherry blossoms were in full bloom.

fresh burial grounds.

i managed to take a decent woodpecker photo.

i loved this grave stone the most.

soon march turned into april and on one weekend i decided to check out a hiking route in auringen. i managed to totally get lost and after meandering around for a few hours decided to try the route at different time. i still ended up at a few interesting places, like the egg fountain in medenbach.

view out to the west.

the little church in medenbach.

the glorious easter egg fountain. in villages around wiesbaden it's a tradition to set up easter egg sculptures, but mostly they are hung on a pole. i loved this approach to the easter egg pole a lot more.

the eggs are partly handmade and partly your average boring plastic eggs. my favourite are of course the handpainted ones.

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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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