Including so many of the locations from The Devil’s Missal and The Devil’s Progeny.
Meerbusch
Winter days in the Rhineland
Autumn in Meerbusch
A selection of views of Meerbusch taken today.
Inside the Teloy-Mühle
I was at the Teloy-Mühle this afternoon for an event and took a couple of photos of the staircase up to the upper levels. For those who have read The Devil’s Missal, this is the setting for a dramatic scene.
Giant toads in Meerbusch?
There is a road sign behind the golf course, near Bauer Berrisch’s farm which always makes me imagine giant toads hopping out of the woods.
A good year for sloes in Meerbusch
A little tip to anyone living in or around Meerbusch. It seems to be a very good year for sloes. These are a native form of wild plum, quite bitter, but when combined with gin and sugar makes a magical concoction called sloe gin.
The German term for the bush is Schwarzdorn, so called because in spring the flowers appear before the leaves, so the bushes are black prickly twigs covered with white flowers.
A walk in the Meerbusch woods
Meerbusch boasts a fantastic Stadtwald or public forest which is open to everyone to walk in. It is a mixed forest with quite a variety of deciduous (beech, oak, sycamore) and evergreen (pine) trees.
Sadly Meerbusch has been suffering, like so much of Germany, with a combination of extreme weather and airborne disease which in particular is affecting the pines. Wherever you look it seems that the evergreens are dying off.
Let’s hope that enough survive to provide the foundation of new growth in the future.
Meerbusch
Autumn leaves at Schloß Pesch
A rummage through the archives threw up this beautiful old picture of the right hand wing of Schloss Pesch, just as the leaves were turning.
Drawing of the station in Meerbusch-Osterrath
I wanted to share with you this lovely drawing by local artist Editha Hackspiel of the station in Meerbusch-Osterrath. The station sadly became famous as the location of a major rail accident in December 2017 when a freight train collided with a passenger train, injuring five people.