Idar-Oberstein is ALL hills. I can walk for miles at a time, but hills do me in. I did do it though. Janelle and I have been wanting to see the church built into the side of the hill since we were little. My dad had a plate with a picture on it on the wall all growing up.
On the way up to the church there were signs pointing the way and next to those signs there were pictures of nuns. I'm wondering if it might be a pilgrimage site.
This is a geode that naturally formed into a cross. Kind of cool.
So their are two castles... one is directly above this church. The legend is that there were two brothers that loved the same woman. One brother killed the other and to do penance, he was told to build a church on the site where he had murdered his brother.
The main focus of the church was a medieval altar.
Nellie and the Penitent Man.
They use the mountain side as three of the four walls. And the church had amazing windows until there was a rockslide that took out part of the roof and most of the windows.
Right behind the church there's a stairway to an overlook point.
This was a memorial to World War I. I think that's pretty neat.
Albert Jurardus Van Prooyen 1875
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