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More impressions from the surroundings of the Felsenmeer (Sea of Rocks) near the community Lautertal in the Odenwald forest, Germany. See also my first series of pictures about this place 3 posts back.

Besides a prominent stone column left half-finished by the Romans, all sorts of unique rock arrangements can be found everywhere. Some of them almost certainly suggest a pre-Roman sacred significance of this site.

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High above the historic center of Heidelberg, Germany, on a slope of the Gaisberg mountain stands the Giant Stone (German: Riesenstein).

The Riesenstein is actually the name of an old quarry site that provided material for Heidelberg Castle and other historic buildings in the city over the past centuries.

The real fascinating thing there are two huge stone blocks, half stacked on top of each other, both sitting on a pedestal that looks like it was made just for that.

Nobody knows how the rocks got into this position. It is theorized that they fell from higher up in the 17th century, and came to rest just so.
I have my doubts and think that they have been sitting there for much longer and that it was not a fall from above.

Look at the stairs carved into one of the blocks.
Something like that can often be seen at ancient cult sites around the world.

You can find more photos and a video at mystictrails.net.

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The ruins of Drachenfels (Dragon`s Rock) Castle, a former rock castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, near the French-German border.

The passages and rooms hewn out of the rock, through which one reaches the top of the prominent castle tower, are impressive.
The origin of the castle is unclear, but it cannot be completely ruled out that these cavities existed before and that the castle complex was built around them.

This is supported by the so-called Heidenkammern (Heathen`s Chambers) on the nearby Heidenberg (Heathen`s Mountain). There too are several rooms carved out of a rock mass at a height of 8 m. Nobody knows who created them and what they were used for. However, their naming suggests that they may have been a place of worship in the distant past.

At Drachenfels, the backs of the main tower and of another tower rock in front of it, which seem to have been cut flat over a large area, are noticeable and most likely did not form naturally in this way.

A dragon image carved into a rock face also poses a mystery, since no one knows when and by whom it was created. Some assume that it existed earlier and gave the castle its name.

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