Different storywalks
From the city centre into the surrounding landscape explore the history of Aachen and its landscape. From the neolithic flintstone industry to celtic settlers, roman baths, germanic spring sanctuaries and last but not least Charlemagne who chose Aachen to be at the centre of his empire.
What are the origins of this city, what led all those different cultures to settle here – is there something in this landscape that held them here.
With the "Seeing Stories" project HDM aims to connect border countries which share the same geographical landscape through research on narratives of the Aachen area, to organise storytelling tours and to develop local site specific interactions. The common denominator will be Charlemagne. His hunting chapel is located in the Netherlands, his hunting grounds lead into Belgium and his residency and cathedral are in Aachen. All this will join in the creation of new models of Storyguides, which will design an innovative and transnational vision of "cultural and geographical landscape". With these models we will be touring to the partner countries and local storytelling festivals, to discuss and discover the interrelationship of landscape narratives in urban and rural Europe. In this regard we will also run workshops, organize an international storytelling festival in Aachen.
Welcome Home Part I
Godesses of the land have been in the centre of worship in the region of Aachen since the 12th century BC. Often they were the guardians of the cold wells and hot springs flowing so abundantly in this area. Though tribes and people changed over the centuries – the worship of a mother goddess continued. Throughout the centuries she bore many names, amongst which: Kybele, Isis, Matrona and finally Mary, which Charlemange revered by building the Cathedral. Listening to stories, we follow her/their traces around the city centre.
Welcome Home Part I
Godesses of the land have been in the centre of worship in the region of Aachen since the 12th century BC. Often they were the guardians of the cold wells and hot springs flowing so abundantly in this area. Though tribes and people changed over the centuries – the worship of a mother goddess continued. Throughout the centuries she bore many names, amongst which: Kybele, Isis, Matrona and finally Mary, which Charlemange revered by building the Cathedral. Listening to stories, we follow her/their traces around the city centre.
Welcome Home Part II
This walk leads from the Cathedral at the heart of Aachen out of the city, following the pilgrim's path, passing places of doom and healing, leading to a new centre of science: the clinic of Aachen and the new campus of the RWTH Aachen University.
Other walks:
The Scholars' Walk
Abul Abbas and his friends (a children's walk)
> more descriptions of walks will follow!
