Trip report: Rabenstein, Zwiesel [2/2]
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izardRabenstein village is a small settlement (~500 ppl live there) surrounded by Bavarian Forest.
Still they have a memorial for the villagers who died in 1st and 2nd world wars.
They are also proud of their history. They had a prophet who (as they claim) predicted world wars
As there was a quartz mine and glass works near the village, they make everything from glass. This plaque about a prophecy,
as well as each of 14 stops of the Christ
they installed on a slopes of a closest mountain.
A church in the village is small and very neat.
All the decorations are made of glass.
A hotel owner told us about how they were building and restoring this church 50 years ago.
He was very proud they did not take money from Vatican for that. Apparently he was telling us something he was told by locals, as he moved to Rabenstien from Netherlands few years ago.
Here is the hotel by the way:
The owner and his wife are retired truck drivers from Netherlands. He speaks Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Bavarian, and his wife cooks good Dutch food.
All pics are in picasa album
Still they have a memorial for the villagers who died in 1st and 2nd world wars.
They are also proud of their history. They had a prophet who (as they claim) predicted world wars
As there was a quartz mine and glass works near the village, they make everything from glass. This plaque about a prophecy,
as well as each of 14 stops of the Christ
they installed on a slopes of a closest mountain.
A church in the village is small and very neat.
All the decorations are made of glass.
A hotel owner told us about how they were building and restoring this church 50 years ago.
He was very proud they did not take money from Vatican for that. Apparently he was telling us something he was told by locals, as he moved to Rabenstien from Netherlands few years ago.
Here is the hotel by the way:
The owner and his wife are retired truck drivers from Netherlands. He speaks Dutch, English, German, Italian, Spanish and Bavarian, and his wife cooks good Dutch food.
All pics are in picasa album
