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Devil's Kitchen Gorge

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Location: Coppenbrügge, Hameln-Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, Germany

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September 30, 2018

Nice climb to the Ith mountains. Slight alpine ascent with stairs.

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Danny & Kalle

August 21, 2018

On the Oberberg, where the height of the Ithberg bends to Coppenbrügge, lies the Teufelskueche above the Lecker Hainholz. Like the devil's kitchen of the same name on the bare cell in Hils, this place was probably a pre-Christian place of sacrifice. It is enclosed on both sides by high rocks. The surrounding area gives the impression that giant hands have scattered rocks. Due to the fallen rocks, the place looks much more gruesome and wilder than the devil's kitchen on the Hils. The old tree trunks with their whitish-green moss beards, which stand out from the tangle of rocks, give the whole picture the look of gray times. One might consider this place either as a particularly worthy place to stay for pagan deities or as a safe haven for pagan worship and sacrificial feasts before the victorious advance of Christianity. The border between Lauenstein and Coppenbrügge is said to have been controversial here. The disputes continued over a long period of time and could not be identified for a long time. For this reason, some suspect that the name stems from the fact that one may have said: "It must have gotten into the devil's kitchen."
Texts from: Ithland - Sagenland, Ulrich Baum, 1987
Source (coppenbrügge.de)

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January 26, 2022

It was the year 1284. As every year, there had been a series of festive days with boisterous activity in Hamelin around St. John's Day. Moving out and moving, especially of young people and children, were the order of the day. In the darkness, the St. John's fires blazed up on the heights of the surrounding mountains.
Stimulated by the festivities of the preceding St. John's Day, a large group of children made their way to Ith, just under two miles away, on June 26th in the most beautiful summer weather. Massive and rugged, the massif of the Fahnenstein juts out into the plain on the northern Ith. According to ancient custom, a midsummer bonfire was burned at its height every year, and the youth of Hamelin wanted to be there. With happy playing and singing, we left Hamelin's Easter Gate. A minstrel, a piper, led the long procession of 130 children.
The Cobbenberg, as this Ithhöhe is called in the oldest documents, was reached in good time towards evening. At the foot of the Fahnenstein, halfway up the Cobbenberg, lies the eerie devil's kitchen, a formerly swampy rock basin in the middle of steep cliffs. Tradition has it that this place was an old Germanic place of worship and sacrifice. The devil's kitchen at the foot of the flag stone now particularly attracted the leader of the children. Like all members of his guild, he was still excluded from the church and therefore stuck to the old beliefs.
The devil's kitchen was dangerous terrain, due to the swamp basin and the steep cliffs from which large blocks had detached over time and today have completely filled the swamp hole. Mysterious mists rose from the bottom, will-o'-the-wisps floated to and fro. As dusk fell, the children feared spooks and ghosts. As if by magic, they pressed forward.
As the foremost sank into the swamp, panic set in, and instead of realizing the danger and turning back, those who stayed behind became utterly shy. Partly driven by superstitions, partly in an effort to save their comrades, they pressed forward and thus to perdition. So the sump of the devil's kitchen on the slope of the Cobbenberg, just under two miles east of Hamelin, became the grave of the 130 Hamelin children.
mystic-culture.de/kultplatz/ith/teufelskueche/rattenfaengersage.html

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