211 Comments for Heidelberg Thingplatz

The history! Truly sites like this absolutely awe me-to touch one of these stones and know it was placed by another human 1,000 years before...

Wonderful shot!
And I believe the monastery was most likely built with, and on top of, pagan temple ruins, as many churches, monasteries, etc were.

Another great set, Thanks Motts!!!

And I bet Hiter thought this too would last forever...

Who had his dwelling among the tombs

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones

The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice

Ummm...if this were a monestary I don't think the occupants would have been interested in a virgin...maybe a ram?

and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

frozen in time...freeze-framed

Cornerstone of hell, the keeper of the gates of hate

I hope those seats were uncomfortable...

beautiful!

Appropriate for the tilted perspective of a pure Aryan race...

Reminds me more of the Romans and the Coliseum(sic). I am still amazed at the beauty of this place which surely spawned and spewed hatred on innocent people...