Where is the best place to cross the Wümme?
The Wümme has been shaping this unique river landscape since the penultimate Ice Age.
Due to regular rainfall and due to the low gradient, a river low was formed, which in large areas is quickly flooded. Then the landscape resembles a large lake district.
Some bridges and paths are then no longer passable.
A long time ago, travelers laboriously searched their way through these sometimes very humid green spaces. They hiked along dry geestrands until there was a suitable place to cross the Wümme.
The Bishop of Reykjavik made a pilgrimage in 1150 coming from the north via Hellwege to the Mediterranean area. He may have passed the Trienenwiese in the process. The map shows a reconstruction of medieval pilgrimage routes through our region.
Artists of the “Ahauser Herbst” project use this tradition to create a group of pilgrims that is quite “oblique” from what is usually seen as pilgrims.
But the Trienenwiese is no ordinary meadow either; Because where is there a rest area where you sit on a NORDPFAD sofa, look into the Wümmen lowlands and are watched by a colorful crowd of pilgrims?
NORPFAD sofa and pilgrims were allowed to be set up on the Trienenwiese with official approval.
For this, a big thank you to everyone involved!