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Photos from the family Christmas day walk around the Externsteine and Hermannsdenkmal Nord Rhein Westfalen.
Photos from the family Christmas day walk around the Externsteine and Hermannsdenkmal Nord Rhein Westfalen.
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. Aha.