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Der Ring Alzey-Weinheim
photographer©Jens Hedtke
After determining the center of the circle on the bisector of the angle between the two tangents
- the small
roads, leading from the junction up into the vineyard, I constructed the circle; a
steel pin which I drove in the center and a ten meter long string
were my primary tools.
A rock, which had been lying to the
east of the
Wine Church, was moved down the hill for me and placed in the center
of the ring.
After that the digging could begin. I was happy that the
organization was able to acquire a small excavator to dig the trench
in which we would plant the trees; the earth was almost as hard as concrete,
so doing this by hand was out of the question.
But it humbles
me to compare this work to that of the erecting of Stonehenge, when
with handwork this much more monumental and much heavier work was
done without the help of any machines. However, the little excavator
we got to use to dig the ring for planting the trees, wouldn't have
helped much either in those days, taking into account that the
smallest stones weighed tons. One thing which we can compare with
Stonehenge is the wooden palisade, which was Stonehenge’s first
phase. One day the Ironwood trees - close together as they have been
planted here in the Weinheim vinyards - will form a circular
palisade around the Wodan Stone, in the center of the ring. And, in
time, this palisade will function as an impermeable stockade and
block the way for anyone who wants to enter the inner courtyard, in
which the stone is the central object. The trees have been planted
barely one meter apart.
the work constructing Der Ring
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