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Christmas on the Drachenfels

A new legend from the Middle Ages in the Siebengebirge. Thanks to a dragon lady, Christmas on the Drachenfels is a happy occasion in the midst of worries and hardships. It takes place in the time of the crusades. Many knights from the Rhineland taken the cross and followed Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa to Palestine. Some of them had not […]

The Dragon Lady of Drachenfels

The traditional legend comes here in a new version. Thanks to the Dragon Lady of Drachenfels, people come together and the region flourished. That time, the decades after the fall of the Western Roman Empire were a time of turmoil, and the people lived in constant fear of being attacked by other tribes.