There are so many things I love about living abroad, one of them is the number of historical sites that are within a short drive of our house. One of the places that we have been wanting to visit is a place called Thingstätte, in Heiligenberg. Tucked away in the forest overlooking the city of Heidelberg and it’s castle, is an old open-air amphitheatre built in the 1930s by the Nazi party. I need to research Thingstatte a bit more, but it was apparently used by the Nazi party during WWII for rallies and festivals. Standing on the stage and looking out at the rising rows of stone seats, it is hard not to wonder what it looked like when it was first built and think about that dark time in German history. It is truly an impressive site and one that is hard to capture with just photos.
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