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Further Drachenstich (the slaying of the dragon) is a traditional folk custom in Furth im Wald, in the Upper Palatinate District of Bavaria, Germany.It is the oldest local theater play in Germany, dating back to 1590 and it is generally referred to as a parade at the end of which the knight would pierce the dragon with his spear and eventually kill him.
Members of the congregation who preferred German services formed the St. Thomas German Church. [2] The German Reformed church on Market Square experienced similar language conflicts and splintering, until its 1854 transformation into the Market Square Presbyterian Church. [17] Keller's stepson, the Rev. Charles W. Schaeffer, was pastor from ...
Urnes-style runestone U 887, Skillsta, Sweden, showing a runic dragon and a bipedal winged dragon.. Worms, wurms or wyrms (Old English: wyrm, Old Norse: ormʀ, ormr, Old High German: wurm), meaning serpent, are archaic terms for dragons (Old English: draca, Old Norse: dreki, Old High German: trahho) in the wider Germanic mythology and folklore, in which they are often portrayed as large ...
According to the 19th-century English archaeologist Charles Boutell, a lindworm in heraldry is basically "a dragon without wings". [12] A different heraldic definition by German historian Maximilian Gritzner was "a dragon with four feet" instead of usual two, [13] so that depictions with - comparatively smaller - wings exist as well.
A Drachenried (dragon's fen) and Drachenloch (dragon's cave) are to the west of the village, and a Drachenkapelle (dragon chapel), also known as Winkelriedkapelle dedicated to Struth is south of the village, next to Wychried, the probable site of the original Winkelried estate. The story is probably a recontextualisation of a much older dragon ...
Five rows of dragon's teeth in the area of the Hotel Relais Königsberg; Bridge design of the five rows of dragon's teeth at the dam of the Dreilägerbach; Bunker for water supplies near Lammersdorf hunting lodge; Diverse visible remains of five rows of dragon's teeth between Lammersdorf and Monschau. Remains of a movable barrier near Lammersdorf
Tradinno is a giant, animatronic, fire-breathing dragon, featured in the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records as the world largest walking robot. [1] It plays the Dragon in the play Drachenstich in the German town of Furth im Wald. The name Tradinno is a mix of Tradition and innovation.
The Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock", German pronunciation: [ˈdʁaxənˌfɛls]) is a hill (321 metres (1,053 ft)) in the Siebengebirge uplands between Königswinter and Bad Honnef in Germany. The hill was formed by rising magma that could not break through to the surface, and then cooled and became solid underneath.