Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
This is Castle Frankenstein near Darmstadt, Germany, where a notorious scientist named Konrad Dippel supposedly conducted experiments on human bodies… No wonder then, that some people believe Castle Frankenstein may have inspired Mary Shelly’s literary masterpiece, ‘Frankenstein‘.
Thanks to Jens Kilian and Nikopol.
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No comment to the castle, but…
If you look a few km to the west, you’ll find these strange circles in the wood:
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Does anyone know what they are for? I guess they belong to the facility north of them, which seems to be some kind of barracks.
Even cooler than the strange circles in the wood that Al posted is the great loop of railroad track just to the west of them. That thing’s great!
(Ok, maybe that’s just the train-head in me coming out…)
afaik, they are part of an old oil storage facility (Fernleitungs-Betriebsges. mbH, Tanklager Pfungstadt) and the barracks are the “Bundeswehr Frankenstein-Kaserne, Darmstadt”
Danke, Bernd. I thought the circles were some kind of ammunition depot, or even an anti-aircraft site, maybe because of the near Frankenstein-Kaserne (cool name, btw).
@Cory: There is also a track to the barracks. The track which goes south through leads to a bigger one.
Read the account of how Shelley conceived her novel at Wikipedia.
The circles you see are where US warplane bombs exploded during the war, I lived in the Kaserne for 9 months and got to know the area quite well. The area is rich in history.