Hoch Sauerland
Just back from a week holidays. It had to be not too far and not too expensive, so we have spent a week in what is the skiing part of Germany in the winter and a sleepy holidays area in the summer, but ideal for walking and there are a few things to see too. Not too many prechristian sites this time, even though we were not that far from previous holidays locations, but we have seen a few embarkment forts (what do you call them in English?). In the Netherlands we usually call them “Hunneschansen” and sometimes “Huneschansen”. They are built walls with sand over them and used as a protected area in times past, sometimes (but not often these days) connected to the Huns. We haven’t been able to find the “Weleda Höhle” of Velmede and other than that it was more the normal natural sites such as the Externsteine-like rocks of Bruchhausen (but without carvings, temples and graves), the beautiful spring of Alme (nothing like a temple site here, so no Paderborn). Perhaps those ancient church ruins with the large lime tree could be something (folklore places a pagan temple there). Perhaps I should make some article with photos of such places that are interesting.