Grave Of A Monk by Hendesse
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Description
Inside the ruins of the Saint Michael monastery on the Heiligenberg (Saints' Mountain) near Heidelberg lies this old grave. Miracles at the grave led to the monastery becoming a popular place of pilgrimage, over the centuries. (There are many old stories, for example of bells which suddenly started ringing without any human intervention, of ghostly lights luring people into deep crevices, secret passages that were never found and stories of hidden treasures.) The grave stone is not original anymore after vandals destroyed the original plate. It was rebuilt in the last century. In any case, it is a mystical place.
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Comments (30)
Nice find and shot!
Vandals grrrr Beautiful shot, and thank you for story of place!
WOW! It would takes a real low life individual to desecrate any grave... especially that of a holy man! - Glad his resting place was restored...sadly too many are not! Someplace near Heidelberg when I was there we found a real opulent cemetery next to some sort of Palace just to its right as you faced the entrance into the site. Also, there was a large oval bird pond in the front of the Palace. The graves, from many ages was most unusual. Many had glass enclosures around them and even windows into the crypts.... most macabre! In all the world I had never seen such a place! I was wondering if you might know of the place? I had thought it was Weinheim or something like that... I had tried to find it on line ever since... somewhere I have a few photos of the Palace and pond but failed or were perhaps not permitted to photograph the cemetery which would have made a magnificent photographic study!
a fascinating glimpse into the past
Great photo & fascinating information! But the vandalism that was done is horrid!
Great shot and some interesting information too :)
I have never understood vandalism.
Old cemetaries are sometimes mystic places, or at least impressives places. Beautiful capture and interesting infos!
Interesting text and superb shot !
I can not even imagine what would bring someone to vandalize a grave or anything for that matter, thanks for sharing this.
Wonderful capture!!
Klasse Photo,danke für die Erklärung!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the ancient history and the legends that build up around them.
Yeah. It is beyond me, that anybody would do such a thing. Good it was renewed, this stone. WOW! It is pretty old, that grave.
Beautiful image my friend, mystic place indeed, excellent capture my friend, amazing image!
He died in 1070? Wow! Cool shot!
Excellent work and perfect realisation
Cool shot of the final resting spot of said monk, Klaus. Cool about the spooky lights. One would think that the ghost of the monk would have prevented any vandalism.
Excellent
Fantastically well done !
cool
a spooky mood and interesting stories! komm, lass uns da mal übernachten! ich würd an dir kleben und vor schiss sterben lol
Sehr schönes Foto und eine sehr interessante Geschichte. Bedauerlich das es immer wieder mal ein paar Verrückte gibt, die Spaß daran haben Sachen kaputt zu machen oder zu verunstalten. Was mich noch interessieren würde: Hast Du die Geschichte als englischen Text zur Verfügung gehabt oder hast Du das alles selber ins englische übersetzt?
Perhaps they thought there was treasure beneath... not that treasure, or anything else, is a good excuse. I helped my uncle a couple times at old graveyards when I was young, but obviously, being in California, we had none that were as old as this. Great photo.
Outstanding photograph!
wonderful picture
A good photo of this old gravesite and mystical place.
I was going to be impressed that the grave plate was the original from 1070. I guess that vandals do the wrong things all around the world. I nice replica of the original grave plate!!!!
Great find and capture!
Excellent