HESSEN IN GERMANY

Force places and cult places Hessen in Germany

Broad separating earth brook:
Stone chamber caves:
It is reported that dwarves and wild women live in lime rock with in the earth of disappearing brooks.
The middle cave is the “small stone chamber”. The found Weihegaben from that 6. Jhdt. v. Chr. refer to cult actions.
The small stone chamber has 2 entrances. The upper entrance opens at the steep slope after NO. of the background 8 m of the long cave area out leads across one scarcely 1 m deep stage a close course winkelig downward. After 14 m it ends in the lower entrance, which lies over 6 m below. (Flashlight emergency little!)
Description of way: Motorway 145 pouring victories - > exit Herborn west - > B255 direction W to branching Uckersdorf, left after earth brook. From the old station highly follow the Mühlweg highly up to the parking lot and the left way the mountain - > right a signpost/guide that comes the forest path up-led.


Dillenburg:
William stones:
This group of rocks, which lies there in the forest, is compared with the victim place Maximilianfelsen in Bavaria and added the Naturheiligtümern.
Description of way: A45 pouring victories, exit Herborgn south - > B255 to Bischoffen, there left over victory brook to tri gene stone. Tri gene stone direction Hirzenhain - > R park recessing with moving protection hut. Sign: “Moving way after the William stones”.


Dörnberg:
Hollow stone
A small crest protected with a stone barrier, on which a steep basalt rock rises. On the point of this rock is a recess created by human hand: the basin for catching rain water.
The age and the function of this plant are uncertain. It lets assume an before-historical Naturheiligtum. But the found pieces of broken glass speak from the Eisenzeit. The rock is very similar able and form andereren one victim rock, so that a victim cult place is assumed.
Description of way: Motorway Goettingen - > exit Kassel B251 to Dörnberg - > about 1 km before Dörnberg right bend into a geteerten dirt road - > halfright follow until then on the left of the wooded dome-shaped mountain top of the hollow stone with steep rock emerges.


Dörnberg:
Helping stones:
About 1600 m size from the hollow block are the helping stones, a Naturheiligtum.
Due to the finds of before-historical pieces of broken glass settlement place of our ancestors is assumed here.
Description of way: Of the north: > at the “youth yard” past, the helping stones are appropriate for road Zierenberg Ehrsten on the right of road to the Dörnberghaus - > parks - in southeast direction.


Pour:
Dünsberg:
For Celt, Teuton and again for the Alemannen he was later a natural center of administration and cult. Today an archaeological moving way of the parking lot leads across the old barrier plants to the summit. On the spur out-jumping eastward (with gate 9) innumerable bent and broken weapons were found.
A victim place is assumed, there in settlements the found parts again gathered would be for recycling…
Description of way: Size von Giessen - > road from Fellingshausen to Franconia brook - > parking lot in relation to the branching after Krumbach.


Guntershausen/circle Kassel:
Menhir:


Yard home at the Taunus::
Chapel mountain, holy Spring:
1666 were established a mountain chapel directly beside the holy originating from the ice age. To this date the old “Rabenberg” received to its current names. The Eremitage with the barrier travel chapel gave its name “a settler fount” to the source which was because of the west slope of the mountain.
Elevator settlement since 4. Millenium v.Chr.!
Ring barrier around the chapel mountain is round from the Middle Ages.
Description of way: Motorway Frankfurt Wiesbaden, exit Frankfurt Zeilsheim. Direction W of the “Zeil” following - > cross way up up to the mountain chapel


with Hummeltroth:
Holy Place for Jupiter  in the “Haselburg”:
One of the largest Roman property goods under that of approximately 300 in Hessen admitted villae rusticae is the Haselburg. The special is an unusually grosster separated holy district with an extremely high Jupitergigantensäule. Despite smashing as “heidnisches Götzenwerk” fortunately its exact location could be still determined. The Jupiter appropriate divinity of this galloromanischen cult thinking mark is to be searched in the celtic mythology.
Description of way: B449, 426 and 38 direction Brensbach - > road direction most in the Odenwald, southeast from Hummeltroth.


Long stone/circle Marburg:
Menhir:
to find before the Friedhofsmauer

Larvae:
Menhir:
The 2 m high “Male-Stone” - in the Middle Ages landmark of a court place - stands for originals at the place of discovery at the local entrance of larvae. Excavations - on the search for treasures - furnished remnants of human bones.
After the legend the devil with this stone wanted the first church of the Bonifatius in Fritzlar zerschmettern, which had established Bonifatius allegedly from the wood of the 723 Donareiche gefällten by him. The Felsblock remained hanging however on its sleeve and fell on the field of larvae. The castings of the devil claw would be still good recognizable…
Description of way: Motorway Kassel - > exit Fritzlar - > over Werkel after larvae - > right before the local entrance sign path with reference “Wotanstein”.


Oberursel:
celtic settlement/Keltenrundweg:
An enormous settlement of the Celts, surrounded by one today still as barrier recognizable Stadtmauer, extended in the last centuries v. Chr. over the two elevator backs „old person yards “and „gold pit “on both sides the heath soaking brook in the valley, the starting point of the migration. It was probably the first settlement with a large city-similar character in the today's Rhine Main area.
On the archaeological round moving way over the gold pit you become acquainted with a substantial part of this largest before-historical topographical monument on hessian soil. The way leads on a distance of approximately 4.3 kilometers past in the most salient places of the celtic city at that time.
2stündiger round moving way is gekennzeichent with way symbols, which is attached at all way forkings:  On 16 boards in German, English and French language by means of reconstructions, maps and pictures the remnants of the ring barrier plant (Stadtmauer, gates and settlement surfaces), visible in the area, are explained. An informative view of the life of the Celts in the Taunus.


in the Taunus:
Lodging head:
Convenient small elevator crest in the forest bath Homburg with their romantic rock window blind hides was in 8. Jhdt. v.Chr a fastened elevator settlement. Despite the hidden situation in the chain of the Vordertaunushöhen a far view is offered into the Rhine my level from the group of rocks in SO the “head”. The ring barrier, which surrounds the crest, is still recognizable as low stone barrier differently well. In its eastern stone fall and from the center of the interior 7 bronze depots were found, which are interpreted as Weihegaben. Probably the lodging head with its bizarren rock formations held a large role as cult place and victim place.
Description of way: A5 to Homburger cross - > A661 to exit Oberursel north - > after Oberstedten up to the parking lot at the deer garden or at the Forellengut. Moving way to lodging head


Wolfershausen:
Menhir:
The largest Menhir of north Hessen4 m are broad high and 4 m. At its foot human bones are to have been excavated. It is appropriate for originals at the discovery site, on a small hill.
Excessive quantities tell that everywhere, where the arable made fields lay now in former times powerful oak forests stood. The “giant stone” gethront in the middle on a hill in the oak forest. The legend of the giant Lothar tells that it hurled the stone behind the giant Kunibert, when that its loving kidnapped…
Description of way: Motorway A7 - > exit Guxhagen - > after Wolfershausen - follow > before Wolfershausen quite the geteerten agricultural way briefly parallel to the railroad line - > after approximately 300 m is to be seen further on the right of the “giant stone” on the hill.