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Die Externsteine eine Felsformation aus Sandstein im Teutoburger Wald. Gelegen im Kreis Lippe in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The Externsteine a rock formation of sandstone in the Teutoburg Forest. Located in the district of Lippe in
North-Rhine-Westphalia. Germany.
It's not surprising, that these majestic sandstone blocks were used as early as by the celtics. It's easy to see the work of the gods in these.
Die Externsteine sind eine Felsengruppe im Teutoburger Wald bei Horn - Bad Meinberg.
The Extern Stones are a rock group in the Teutoburg Forest in Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Les pierres Extern sont un groupe de rock dans la forêt de Teutoburg en Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Die Externsteine sind eine Felsengruppe im Teutoburger Wald bei Horn - Bad Meinberg.
The Extern Stones are a rock group in the Teutoburg Forest in Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Les pierres Extern sont un groupe de rock dans la forêt de Teutoburg en Horn - Bad Meinberg.
Die Sommermilchstraße im Bereich des Sommerdreiecks. Zu sehen sind die Sternbilder Schwan (cygnus), Leier (lyra) und Adler (aquia), links ist der Pegasus zu sehen
Die Externsteine, majestätisch und beeindruckend, erheben sich in der sanften Morgensonne. Ihr raues Gestein wird von den ersten Lichtstrahlen in warmen Gold- und Orangetönen erleuchtet. Der glatte See, der sich vor ihnen ausbreitet, fungiert wie ein perfekter Spiegel, der die Schönheit der Natur reflektiert. Die ruhige Wasseroberfläche fängt die Silhouetten der Externsteine ein und verstärkt die magische Atmosphäre des Morgens. Diese friedliche Szenerie lädt zum Verweilen ein und lässt die Seele zur Ruhe kommen. Ein Moment der Harmonie zwischen Fels und Wasser, der die Kraft der Natur spürbar macht.
The Externsteine is a row of large rock formations in the Teutoburger Wald near Detmold in the Lippe district of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. They are particularly noteworthy as there are few other large rocks in this part of Germany. Historically and culturally the stones have been linked to Saxon paganism, the irminsul, Charlemagne, Goethe, German nationalism, and Nazi propaganda.
The relief carving Descent from the Cross (Kreuzabnahmerelief an den Externsteinen) is the most interesting of the artwork at the Externsteine. It measures nearly 5 m high by 4 m wide. Current thinking dates it to around 1160 making it the oldest such large relief rock carving north of the Alps.
Revisited for Digging In The Archives Tuesday, 17 November 2014 - one of my favourites from last year for some reason.
Set: People in Colour
Went for a bit of an explore this morning as the sun was shining - hip, hip hoooray! We visited the Externsteine today, a rather unusual site in the Teutorberge of Ostwestfalia (that's Ost NordRheinWestfalia, to be exact). It's best to look it up on Wikipedia if you'd like some background on it, but it's an unusual geological formation that has held spiritual significance for people from this region since pre-Christian times. Anyhow, this girl with her rather smart outfit and red bag caught my eye as she stood out amongst the rest of us jeans-and-boots clad folk :-)
EOS 50D, Canon EF 17-40 f/4L USM
ISO 100, 17mm, f/8, DRI from 1/400-1/100-1/25 Sec
Hit "L" for big! ©Jens R.
Horn Bad Meinberg - Germany, NRW, Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Externsteine
These rocks are the relicts of and ice age moraine and their color range is from a pinkish to red green cast dependent on the light.
Mamiya Sekor 105 - 210 mm/ 4.0
The Externsteine is a row of large rock formations in the Teutoburger Wald near Detmold in the Lippe district of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. They are particularly noteworthy as there are few other large rocks in this part of Germany. Historically and culturally the stones have been linked to Saxon paganism, the irminsul, Charlemagne, Goethe, German nationalism, and Nazi propaganda.
Stitched from two freehand shots, so view in large!
Wikipedia: The Externsteine [ˈɛkstɐnʃtaɪnə] are a distinctive rock formation located in the Teutoburger Wald region of northwestern Germany, not far from the city of Detmold at Horn-Bad Meinberg. The formation consists of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills. The name probably means "stones of the Egge".
Externsteine is a natural outcropping of five sandstone pillars, the tallest of which is 37.5 meters high and form a wall of several hundred meters length, in a region that is otherwise largely devoid of rocks. The pillars have been modified and decorated by humans over the centuries. The geological formation consists of a hard, erosion-resistant sandstone, laid down during the early Cretaceous era about 120 million years ago, near the edge of a large shallow sea that covered large parts of Northern Europe at the time.
It is generally assumed that Externsteine was a center of religious activity for the Teutonic peoples and their predecessors prior to the arrival of Christianity in northern Europe. This notion can be traced back to Hermann Hamelmann (1564).
However, archaeological excavations did not produce any findings earlier than the 11th century other than some Paleolithic and Mesolithic stone tools from before about 10,000 BC.
Whatever its early history, in 1093 the land surrounding the stones was supposedly bought by the Abdinghof monastery of Paderborn, as a questionable inscription inside the Stones indicate. Another dating suggests an early monastery, which might have been founded as early as 815, after the destruction of the Irminsul by Charlemagne. The findings, however, are not yet conclusive, though the dating of 1093 has been proven as false by art historians, dating the relief as early 9th century.
The last pagan inhabitants of the region were Saxons until their defeat and conversion by Charlemagne. Charlemagne is reported to have destroyed the Saxon Irminsul in 772; and Wilhelm Teudt in the 1920s suggested that the location of the Irminsul had been at the Externsteine. In 1933 Teudt joined the Nazi Party and proposed to turn the Externsteine into a "sacred grove" for the commemoration of the ancestors.
Heinrich Himmler was open to the idea, and in 1933 initiated and then presided over the "Externstein Foundation". Interest in the location was furthered by the Nazi Ahnenerbe division within the SS, who studied the stones for their value to Germanic folklore and history.
At the top of the tallest stone is a now-open chamber. Formerly used for sacrifices,[citation needed] little decoration remains apart from one wall with a circular hole shaped into it. Studies have shown that this is some form of calendar. On the exact day each year where Summer turns to Winter, the sun fits perfectly into this hole.
Some Neo-Pagans continue to believe that the Irminsul was located at the Externsteine and identify a bent tree depicted beneath the cross in a 12th-century Christian carving with it. The site has also been of interest to various German nationalist movements over the years, and continues to be a frequently visited point of interest.