Hello world,
maybe it is my last day at home, so mommy made a trip with me and her TV-guest Pink_Bear to the Kottmar. It is the mountain near the village Kottmarsdorf which Pink_Bear visits some days ago. But today we take a walk through the wood, but guess what we have found?
This is the fountain of the Spree, for all people who don't come from Germany. The Spree is the river which flows through our capital city Berlin.
But there are two fountains of the Spree, the other one is in Neugersdorf, but maybe Pink_Bear or myself will visit it.
This is me and Pink_Bear on a sign, which tells the "Legend of the Spreefountain"!
I tried to translate it into english!
Here, where today the spree-fountain ist, were many, many years ago moss covered rock and huge meadows. This was the home of the gnom Gerbod. Many little elfes saved the water wealth of the Kottmar and tease Gerbod with her singing. But the laugh of the gnom banish the elfes forever. Gerbod got mad and throw a spear. This spear drilled into the earth and made a new fountain. The little creek joint soon the Spree and the village Gersdorf was build there.
So now you know... Gerbod was the reason why the Spree has two fountains.
After we watched the Spreefountain we walked on and found another legend!
"The legend of the wolveshole"
Many centurys ago the Kottmar was a impenetrable wood, with dark holes where bears and wolves lived.
Die villagers were afraid of this animals, who threaten the people. So the villagers dig holes all around the Kottmar-mountain and covered them with rods to made ´traps for the villains.
So the wild animals wheren’t a danger for the villagers and the people in the villages had peace again.
Pink_Bear and me found such a wolveshole! I was a little bit scared to walk on it, but I'm not so weighty so I wasn't caught by the trap.
Mommy told me there are wolves in the woods again, but they aren't dangerous for people. They are to shy and don't attack human. Just the farmer who have sheeps are mad about the wolves, because they catch the sheeps and eat them.
I like wolves... maybe I see a real one on my journey!
The last legend we found was the legend of the crystal coffin at the Kottmarmountain.
In the wood of the Kottmar at Kottmarsdorf, near Löbau you can find in the morning a rock with a indentation, which was sometimes a door. Sometimes it should still appear today. In this rock there should lay a beautifull girl, named Mirinda in a crytsal coffin.
The only sign, which shows her body lays here are three little flames, which hopping around the rock in the evening.
And this might be Mirinda, isn't she beautifull?
It was funny, my mommy herself had never heard of such a legend.
But after that we had to go home. It turns darker and darker, so we had to leave the forest befor we got lost in the forest. At home we drank together coffee and ate wafers.
A nice last day at home... I will miss it!
Love
Hanni