paul croxson
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PHOTOSI have just had a look at the new photos. Thanks Mike
Am I alone but I think the way that nature is taking the Camp back is rather a fitting end. far better than it becoming a golf course or something useful. The camp will have gone a full circle and one day perhaps, a group of keen archaeology students will unbury it and wonder about its purpose. I can imagine them puzzling over those square patches and working out that they were tent bases dating back to " the middle of the 20th Century during the Cold War period". The memorial stone will provide a link to our times and that is why I still like the proposed Langeleben site way above Konigslutter
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marleneandgypo
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Re: PHOTOSI think it's rather sad though. Like everyone here who may not have been back it's still the lively place we all once knew. That photo bottom left, the path lead past the NAAFI lounge and straight to my billet.
I agree about the memorial being at Langeleben as opposed to Königslutter which was after all some 7 km away wasn't it?
Marlene
| paul croxson wrote: | I have just had a look at the new photos. Thanks Mike
Am I alone but I think the way that nature is taking the Camp back is rather a fitting end. far better than it becoming a golf course or something useful. The camp will have gone a full circle and one day perhaps, a group of keen archaeology students will unbury it and wonder about its purpose. I can imagine them puzzling over those square patches and working out that they were tent bases dating back to " the middle of the 20th Century during the Cold War period". The memorial stone will provide a link to our times and that is why I still like the proposed Langeleben site way above Konigslutter |
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paul croxson
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When walking back late at night in the pitch black listening to the snuffling of the wild boars keeping you company it seemed a hell of a lot further than 7kms. When Stubbings and I drove up when we were there for the re-union it seemed so far we were convinced we had taken the wrong road (highly probable if you ever saw him reading a map). Perhaps by some magic the road has stretched itself out rather like my waist and was only 3km in the 50's.
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marleneandgypo
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Hi Paul
Well I never did the Königslutter walk being a young lady alone, but I did have friends in Lelm and went there a lot and like you say, it felt a bit spooky at night with only the boars for company. I remember a sign on the road saying Lelm 3km, then after walking what seemed like a good mile, there was another sign on the corner saying Lelm 3km.
I do remember a bus stop at the bottom of the road leading from the camp which had the Tetzelsten to the left and Königslutter to the left, but the bus only ran twice a year and I kept missing it.
Marlene
| paul croxson wrote: | | When walking back late at night in the pitch black listening to the snuffling of the wild boars keeping you company it seemed a hell of a lot further than 7kms. When Stubbings and I drove up when we were there for the re-union it seemed so far we were convinced we had taken the wrong road (highly probable if you ever saw him reading a map). Perhaps by some magic the road has stretched itself out rather like my waist and was only 3km in the 50's. |
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