Just like in the past, herbs are still harvested in the woods and fields. Nature in the Sauerland is a richly laid table: mint, sage, marjoram, yarrow, lavender, lemon balm, lady’s mantle, calendula, stag beetle, valerian, meadowsweet, horsetail, comfrey … All vegetation whose therapeutic powers have been thought for hundreds of years. There are also cereals and bouquets. “Mullein is critical. And we employed to set an apple in our house, ”says Waltraud Burghardt. The variety of herbs also performs a part. For illustration, 7 stands for the times of development. The twelve for the apostles. A selection divisible by a few for the Trinity.
The Marienkirche on the mountain
The bundles of herbs are consecrated as section of a mountain massif on the Kohlhagen. Portion in a panoramic posture exposed to 500 meters previously mentioned sea stage, which gave its title to the parish and via its Parish and pilgrimage church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary it’s known. Kohlhagen has generally been a place of excellent attraction, of silence, prayer and assembly. For pilgrims and travellers, for site visitors and visitors of the non secular center that the Archdiocese designed below very last yr. And for the residents who live in the tiny villages of Wirme, Brachhausen and Emlinghausen at the foot of the mountain – which was previously named Marienberg in historical occasions.
“Kohlhagen is very good for me. It is a religious household, ”says Neuhaus. “Our youngsters also have this close romantic relationship. In the previous, large portions of cuckoo bouquets grew in the meadows. Our kids then introduced thick bunches of flowers to the cemetery and utilised them to adorn abandoned graves. And if my spouse experienced spilled the manure in advance, the Kohlhagen would stink far too. This spot is alive ”. Jennifer Ibsch thinks the similar way: “The church on this mountain is an vital issue of reference for me. A location with lots of good memories, a position that exudes self esteem and relieves me ”.
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