Saturday November 7, 2009, 5:00 am
When I lived in Dithmarschen ( North Germany -Schlesswig Holstein) I came across this tree after a long walk in the woods. It is a beautiful place and I did often teaching there or.. just had a pickinick... but there is also and old legend


There is a legend about this tree.. about 250 years ago a beautiful girl lived in Nordhastedt and she went into the wood alone.. and was murdered.. As they could not find any person that could have been guilty they simply did the most easy thing and arrested a forgeign scholar. This poor man was saying that he did not commit the crime but nobody believed him and so he was executed a couple of days later. Before he died he said that there will be a sign for his innonence after he is burried. They burried him and like a hand this tree appeared.. ...

many years later ... a man from Nordhastedt confessed on his death bed that he was killing this young woman..

Thats the story but the tree is sooooooooo beautiful and it is very entchanting to be there...