ツァイスカンの洞窟・トップ8

カルノーの壁は兵器庫と兵站局を結び、城壁の後ろに伸びていました。フランスの要塞技師カルノーにちなんで名付けられました。

Work: Fronte Beckers Preserved section: 250 m wide section of the entire complex, around the moat defense Current use: Municipal youth center, as well as the Municipal Music School and Music Academy Germersheim; also a venue for various cultural events such as concerts etc.; hiking lodge of the Palatinate Forest Association. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_Germersheim

Fronte Beckers This well-preserved part of the fortress, over 250 meters long, impressively illustrates the historical fortification system with its moat defense (horseshoe), the main rampart, the posterns and underground mine galleries. Today, the moat defense houses the municipal music school and the youth center. Source: https://www.germersheim-erleben.eu/Sehenswertes/

Carnot walls, such as the one in Germersheim, are named after the French fortification engineer Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festung_Germersheim

The Germersheim Fortress was built during the reign of King Ludwig I. The foundation stone was laid on October 18, 1834. The fortress was built mostly from red bricks.

"Come on, you German men and youths, [...], stream here" was the cry almost 200 years ago when citizens of Neustadt organized a festival at Hambach Castle in 1832 for a united German nation state and for freedom of the press and speech. This folk festival is still considered the cradle of democracy in Germany today. Hambach Castle, which can be seen far into the country, is the destination of our hike. We start from Maikammer. The area around the German Wine Route lives from winegrowing, from tourists, from its beautiful hilly landscape and the beautifully preserved and restored wine villages. Our path takes us along the Maikammer Art Trail, which was created in cooperation with the neighboring villages in 2021. Works of art such as an oversized hand and an oversized guardian line our path. We cross dark deciduous forests and vineyards, where we can already see the first grapes in spring.

The Weissenburg Gate was built according to the plans of the Munich professor Friedrich von Gärtner in 1839 and was one of the two city gates. In addition to the tourism center (with ticket service) and the permanent exhibition on the history of the fortress, this is also the starting point for the exciting city and fortress tours as well as the enjoyable wine tastings.

The history of the emergence of the German nation state. This is where "Germany" came into being as we know it today - or at least the impetus was given here. Unfortunately, the ideals of the Hambacher have not been implemented. The nation state of Germany was an empire without freedom and equality. Strictly speaking, it took until 1990 (with 15 years of Weimar Republic in between) for a truly free German state to emerge. However, whether we are really that free - monitored by the social media octopuses Facebook, Google, etc...we'll see