Hiking tip for the Rhine-Main: Canossa gear and Lutherweg

Long and uncertain of the way, the Martin Luther was in April 1521 from Wittenberg to Worms, to pass in front of the Emperor and the Empire. The exact way which could only be estimated on the basis of what was under the effect of historical and tourist signs of Use, as with a view to the reformation anniversary in 2017, thousands of miles of “Luther ways” were created.

This section is part of the worms Reichstag. The path touches the Hessian Ried, and thus the municipality of Trebur, are less likely to have historical, cultural and historical reasons. There, Luther is a life-size, of course, not, as usual, cast in Bronze or carved in stone, but made of wood Hauer Johann Daniel Schnorr 1752 beaten by the Frankfurter Images.

in fact, the Luther of Material, time, location, and Plot is unique. A visionary, he shows on a pedestal in the Laurentius Church in the distance, but the face is reminiscent of the Baroque angel – chubby, forehead curls and with a hint of a Smile. Also, the fact that he was the first and only time given in the case of a full plastic representation of his attribute, the Swan, rises subject to the then popular Animal.

General overhaul to the Luther year

I don’t suppose the work to the completion of the reconstruction of the Church by the Darmstadt priest and architect Johann Conrad Lichtenberg to a hall, none other than the father of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born. In their Baroque substance, the Church remained completely intact; for the General overhaul of the Luther year 2017, more authentic, and more beautiful than ever.

Fine, it was also the masonry of the up in the Carolingian Empire, the predecessor Church spruced up and to the outside are made visible. To its original location in the midst of one of the most important Royal palaces of the Early and high middle ages, a bronze plaque at the upstream Mauertor remembers only. Central enthroned as the Emperor Henry IV., which is connected like no other fate with “Tribur”. At the place of his marriage, he was the most humble experience of a German Regent, as to him, the Banned, the renegade Prince party in October 1076 to kowtow in front of the Pope in the Northern Italian castle of Canossa forced.

If Heinrichs Los stand in the stars, it is also not in a “astronomy Foundation” dedicated circle of professional and private sky observers will be able to answer. A certain degree of enlightenment Impetus drives you, no doubt, to look at, with guided tours and lectures, the universe scientific and less metaphysical. However, you should avoid hard-to-a feeling of being Overwhelmed, may be looked for public appointments through the house, extremely light, strong 1-Meter telescope (currently closed).

Plastically the Treburer Astro world adds a path, in front of the gates of the Ried community. According to 3.1 billion kilometres, it takes a good two kilometres through the open countryside.

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