Wewelsburg - Externsteine - Hermannsdenkmal - Ordensburg Vogelsang - Worms War Memorial - Heidelberg Thingstätte / Heiligenberg - Weinheim War Memorial - Windeck Castle (Weinheim) - Mannheim
February 2010 (all pictures are taken by me)
German War Cemetery Büren-Böddeken
In total 472 German dead, of which 13 from the First World War and 469 from the Second World War, have been interred in this German cemetery. Of the dead 469 are from Germany and 3 are of Dutch origin.
The piece of land where this cemetery has been established, has been donated to the Deutsche Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräber, of County Nordrhein Westfalen, in order to serve as a graveyard. The dead that have been laid to rest have been transferred from the various places where they had been buried alongside the road or in gardens and in the fields where they had fallen. In 1953 these tasks had been completed.
Wewelsburg Castle
“Wewelsburg Castle by day intimidated, by night it had all the charm of a Transylvanian keep under a full moon.”
― James Douglas, The Doomsday Testament
Ottens Hof
Near the Wewelsburg Castle is the Ottens Hof guesthouse (built in 1937), called the Dorfgemeinschaftshaus (village community house) or or the SS Kameradschaftshaus during the Third Reich period. The Ottens Hof maintains almost its entire period rustic appearance today. (Gerdy Troost, "Das Bauen im neuen Reich" (Vol. 2, 1943)
Externsteine
The Rocks of the Sun
by Savitri Devi
An extract from Chapter 9 of Pilgrimage, edited with illustrations and captions by Irmin.
Originally published at Irminsul’s Racial Nationalist Library.
The Externsteine, 23rd of October 1953, in the evening.
We rolled through and past Horn, without stopping, turned to our right as we reached the outskirts of the town and then, after another five hundred yards, to our left, and followed a beautiful asphalted road bordered with trees and meadows beyond which more trees—that same, unending Teutoburg Forest in autumn garb, that I was never tired of admiring—could be seen. I looked right and left, and ahead, and did not speak. I was watching the approach of evening upon the fiery red and yellow and brown of the leaves ready to fall, and thinking of the captive eagles and of enslaved Germany, and longing for the Day of Revenge—“der Tag der Rache”—as steadily as I had been, as a matter of fact, for the last eight and half years.
Read more: here
Hermannsdenkmal
The Hermannsdenkmal (German for "Hermann Monument") is a monument located southwest of Detmold in the district of Lippe, (North Rhine-Westphalia) in Germany. It stands on the densely forested Grotenburg, sometimes also called the Teutberg or Teut, a hill (elevation 386 m) in the Teutoburger Wald (Teutoburg Forest) range. The monument is located inside the remains of a circular rampart.
The monument was constructed between 1838 and 1875 to commemorate the Cherusci war chief Arminius (in German, Hermann) and his victory over Rome at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. When the statue was built, its location was believed to be near the original battle site, although experts now consider it more likely that the battle took place near Kalkriese, about 100 km to the north-west. (Wikipedia)
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal (Hohensyburg)
The Kaiser Memorial, was constructed in the period from 1893 to 1902 in honour of Wilhelm the First in a historical style and adapted to the classicist influenced style of the Nazis in the years 1935/36. Dedicated to the unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.
Ordensburg Vogelsang
In 1934 work began on three construction projects to build "Order Castles" or "School Castles" where the future leadership of the Nazi Party would be trained. These projects were under the direction of Dr. Robert Ley, head of the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (Labor Front). These Ordensburgen were built at Sonthofen in the Allgäu (Bavaria), Crössinsee in Pomerania (now in Poland), and Vogelsang in the Eifel (North Rhein - Westfalia).
The Vogelsang Ordensburg was designed by architect Clemens Klotz, built on a hillside overlooking a large lake valley. The school was completed in 1936 and the first class of "Junker" (cadets) began training immediately. The overall project as planned was never completed, with a large "House of Knowledge" hall, a 2000-bed hotel, and other buildings being omitted. During World War II the site was used for military purposes and to house refugees from bombed German cities. The U.S. Army overran the area in February 1945 and briefly occupied Vogelsang, before turning it over to the British military. In 1950 Vogelsang and the adjacent military training area were turned over to the Belgian Army, who controlled the area until 1 January 2006. Since then the Ordensburg Vogelsang has been open to the public. (http://www.thirdreichruins.com)
*** Unfortunately, in another attempt to desecrate sacred Third Reich-related places, Vogelsang Ordensburg was recently turned by the ZOG of "Germany" to a "refugee" camp...
1930's War Memorial in Worms, Germany
Unfortunately I visited the monument during the night and the quality is not good (but makes it look more haunting). Here is a picture of the monument in the daylight (picture found on line):
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/14705489@N03[/caption]Heidelberg Thingstätte / Heiligenberg
Heidelberg - Thingstätte on the Heiligenberg - started in 1934, finished in 1935, still in existence - click here for info and photos.
There are numerous reasons to visit the Heidelberg area – few, however, are more remarkable than the layers of time and memory still visible on the Heiligenberg or “Holy Mountain”, rising some 439 meters above the river Neckar across from the Old Town itself.
There, archaeologists have found remains dating back to Neolithic times, as well as a Celtic fort and burial grounds. Nearby, the ancient ruins of St.Michael’s Abbey contain the foundations of a Roman temple to Mercury, a god identified with the Norse/Germanic Odin or Wotan.There was also a second monastery here, St Stephen’s, given to the University after the Reformation, which then razed it to sell the stones. Many of the remaining stones were reused in the 19th century to build a lookout tower on the same spot as the original monastery and in 1905 a beacon dedicated to Prince Bismarck was also erected nearby.
Today, however, the most complete of the structures on the mountain is the Freilichtbühne-Thingstätte, a dramatic amphitheatre/stadium designed by Nazi master-builder Albert Speer and realized by architect Hermann Akker in 1935, built following a period when rightwing student groups organized the notorious burning of “prohibited” books on the Universitätsplatz in 1933.
Read more: here
Some fascinating tidbits of information exist regarding the various activities that have taken place on Heiligenberg; a particularly gruesome example being the sacrificial shaft built by the Celts into which, apparently, human sacrifices tied to logs were dropped as offerings to the gods. If you want to experience a shiver down the spine, try thinking about this while looking down the Heidenloch (heathen-hole), a large well that disappears into the unlit depths 55 meters below its covered entrance near the Monastery of St Stephen. Archaeological findings of stones engraved with Latin phrases also suggest that during the Roman era, worship of the god Wotan (the Germanic form of the famous Norse god Odin) took place on the mountain. Source
***This blog doesn't necessarily agree with everything written in these articles but shared the links for informational reasons
Weinheim War Memorial
Windeck Castle (Weinheim)
Windeck Castle (German: Windeck) stands on a small hill in Weinheim on the Bergstraße. It was built around 1100 to protect the inhabitants of the Lorsch monastery.
It was hugely damaged in 1674 by the troops of King Louis XIV of France. In 1960, the ruins were restored, the palace walls newly erected and the donjon safeguarded. It was acquired in 1978 by the city of Weinheim. In the 1980s, archaeological examinations and conservation works were carried out, and the ground plan was found, which gave an idea of the dimensions of the fortress. Today, the ruins of a fortress Windeck are classified as a historical monument. (Wikipedia)
Mannheim
To be continued...
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