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"One must have experienced those days oneself to even begin to understand what happened back then," said Federal President Roman Herzog on May 8, 1995 – the 50th anniversary of the surrender and thus the end of the Second World War. However, the vast majority of people who pass a war memorial today will not have experienced that horrific time firsthand. Perhaps the following words of his will help to recall the enduring message of such a memorial – namely, the preservation of peace (!): “Europe was a field of rubble, from the Atlantic to the Urals and from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean coast. Millions from all European nations, including Germany, were dead, fallen, torn apart in bombing raids, starved to death in camps, froze to death on the roads of flight, and millions more – especially Jews… – had fallen victim to the greatest acts of annihilation that human minds had ever conceived. Millions had lost their relatives, their friends, their homeland… Millions were coming from prisoner-of-war camps or were on their way there. Millions had been maimed.” (Roman Herzog, Federal President from 1994 to 1999)

Despite the ever-increasing distance in time from the two terrible world wars that brought hardship and misery to many countries in the first half of the 20th century, such a memorial (war memorial) is by no means a relic of bygone times that has lost its significance for us today. In his speech on May 8, 2025 – exactly 80 years after the capitulation and thus the liberation of Germany from Nazi tyranny – Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, among other things: “And if new wars worry us today, then we – especially we! – will not lose sight of peace. We know where war leads. We fear it rightly. THEREFORE, OUR PERSPECTIVE REMAINS PEACE. But peace does not prevail simply because we hold back, because we forgo strengthening our own defenses. For we are confronted with a harsh reality: We must do everything, together with our European partners… We must show: Democracies are not defenseless victims.”

A breeze with the ebike

Beautiful church even in the dark

Fantastic cycle path: without traffic through the meadows.

Beautiful view directly on the lake. 🤩

Fieldstone kitchen from the 13th century.

Always nice, homemade cakes, good ice cream.