Diahren

Today we drove to Diahren to take part in the Rundling-Village tour. The tour was a bit long-winded 🤪, so I left after 10 minutes and went off on my own. I found a great seed shop with open-pollinated seeds and stocked up 🌽🥦🫑🥒🍆🍅.

But I love these Rundling-Villages, I like the concept of the circular arrangement of the houses around the village tree and only one street going in, around the tree and out again.

This Rundlings are found only in Northern Germany, typical of settlements in the Germanic-Slav contact zone in the Early Medieval period.

The Rundling was a relatively common village form. It usually comprises a central, circular village green owned in common with individually owned farmsteads radiating out around it like the spokes of a wheel.

The best examples can be found in the small area of Wendland. Nineteen of these villages were put forward as an ensemble for consideration as a possible World Heritage Site, but the decision in December 2023 was negative and there are no plans for resubmitting.Read more