Heiligenberg
Forested hill crowned by a stone amphitheatre, monastery ruins and walking trails above the river.
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This guide to the Heiligenberg above Heidelberg turns on the Thingstätte, a Nazi-era amphitheatre that never quite became what its builders wanted. It follows the bowl through postwar sports meetings and American jazz concerts, to a small campfire lit by a handful of people on the last night of April. Best heard from the upper stone tiers, looking down into the bowl.
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