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Memorial to the Battle of Göhrde in 1813, where the French under Napoleon were repelled.

A place from the "Lost Places" category, in memory of the Battle of Göhrde in 1813. Hanoverian troops and their allies defeated part of Napoleon's forces. When the monument was still draped with cannons from that time, it probably looked more martial; today it commemorates the many victims of both sides who are buried in the area around the battle site.

The blossom of the field lilies is a great natural experience

At Govelin there are still beautiful stocks of fire lilies as field wild flowers, almost unique in Germany. Compared to two years ago, the plants have become more numerous, the fencing against the wild boar seems to be successful.

Great facility, very nicely laid out, there is something to discover everywhere.

A great garden setting! There is still a lot to discover even in late autumn. Unfortunately, the café is closed in winter.

Between Oldendorf and Göhrde, about 300 meters from the Lüneburg-Dannenberg road, a monument that can be seen from afar rises on the Steinkerhöhe at the point where the main force of the French once stood, consisting mainly of a huge granite obelisk consists. This bears the inscription "16. IX. 1813" and is stored on three layers of hewn blocks of erratic blocks, also of a very considerable size. The entire stone material was extracted in 1839 from a single boulder, which lay between Römstedt and Secklendorf, the swampy so-called Langen Grund, was known far and wide because of its rare size and was popularly known as the "Devil's Stone". From the far north, the devil carried him through the air on his shoulder in order to smash the newly built Medingen monastery with it; but because he lingered too long at a merrymaking in the village of Romstedt, the crowing of the cock surprised him before he was near enough to the monastery to throw; the stone fell from the devil's arms, which had suddenly become powerless, and dug itself so deep into the muddy ground that no one was able to lift it again - not even the devil. The master bricklayer Griepe from Bevensen took over the processing of this boulder for the Göhrde monument and delivered it on site, as they say, for a fee of 1,000 Reichstaler. Because of its extreme hardness, the stone was difficult to split, it shattered into a multitude of larger and smaller pieces and a remainder of the mass is still deep in the earth today. Many of the jump pieces were used as foundation stones, the size of which can still be admired in Bad Bevensen. However, the obelisk for the Steinker Heights was hewn from the mightiest jump piece, at the site where it was found. But even so, the transport still caused great difficulties. No fewer than twelve draft oxen had to be harnessed to the wagon that, in the summer of 1839, carried the stone via Dahlenburg to the top of the battlefield, and decades later the deep-ditch tracks that had caused the monster's removal were still visible in the sandy heath. The installation and ceremonial inauguration took place in the same year, on July 7, 1839, after documents and coins of all kinds had been entrusted to the foundation stone. http://www.goehrdeschlacht.de/das-denkmal-in-der-goehrde/index.html

In spring not only the tulips bloom, but also the apple trees and the splendor is almost unbelievable