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Karsten
June 30, 2020
Hiking
Because this is where the house of the Meissen nuns stood in the Middle Ages, after whom the stepped path also got its name.
The nuns, or beghines, were a Christian community of single women and girls who earned their living by doing housework and tending tombs. - So they took care of the "soul salvation" of the deceased through the latter; hence the popular name "soul nuns". That's why a path led directly down from the house to the old city cemetery behind the Frauenkirche; they are the current levels of superintendency. Source: meissen-lese.de/index.php?article_id=115
The nuns, or beghines, were a Christian community of single women and girls who earned their living by doing housework and tending tombs. - So they took care of the "soul salvation" of the deceased through the latter; hence the popular name "soul nuns". That's why a path led directly down from the house to the old city cemetery behind the Frauenkirche; they are the current levels of superintendency. Source: meissen-lese.de/index.php?article_id=115
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Frank Rmr
October 21, 2021
Hiking
One of the many stairways between the old town and the castle hill. The Seelensteig is also the shortest connection between the Triebisch valley and the freedom and the castle hill. The letter stone is particularly interesting here - a baroque sandstone relief that shows the letters A, B, C and D intertwined and from which all the other letters of the Latin alphabet can be read with a little imagination.
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