This place in Hildesheimer Galgenberg offers two lost places in one, because one "place" is, so to speak, in the middle of the other "place". Until 1485 there was a medieval control room directly behind the Galgenberg restaurant, a small tower with an observation post. These waiting rooms were a kind of early warning system for approaching enemies. Almost nothing is available from the control room. In the bushes behind the restaurant there are still a few ramparts and an information board along the way.
A water tower was also built behind the Galgenberg restaurant in 1906, which was responsible for supplying the area with drinking water. When a new container was built near the Brockenblick, the tower lost its meaning and stood empty for years. It was then demolished in August 1974. After some painstaking searching, I found some stone fragments in the bushes behind the restaurant. At one point there is also a manhole in the floor. The tower must have been roughly where the control room used to be. It looks at least the same on an older map of Hildesheim.
In connection with the control room and the water tower I came across the legend of the "Gretchenkuhle" and the "Teufelskanzel". This pulpit is a projecting rock that hangs over the abyss on the edge of the path and has now almost completely disappeared under the earth and bushes. According to legend, a witch, Gretchen, was once said to have been able to make mice out of dust and to have taught this art to her son, who attended the city school, and was burned in the hollow below the "Devil's Pulpit".