Donar's Oak
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Donar's Oak was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th-century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldo, Saint Boniface, a
Bonifacius (1905) by Emil Doepler
A depiction of Saint Boniface destroying Thor's oak from The Little Lives of the Saints (1904), illustrated by Charles Robinson
Om Yggdrasil by Frølich
Hesse
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Hesse or Hessen, officially the State of Hesse, is a landlocked state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt am Main, which is also the country's principal
Donar's Oak
…also Thor's Oak or, via interpretatio romana, Jove's Oak) was a sacred tree of the Germanic pagans located in an unclear location around what is now Hesse, Germany. According to the 8th-century Vita Bonifatii auctore Willibaldo, Saint Boniface, an Anglo-Saxon missionary, and his retinue cut down the tree…
River Lahn in Runkel
Taunus landscape with Großer Feldberg in the center of the background
View from Staufen mountain over several towns of the district Main-Taunus-Kreis with Kelkheim in the foreground as well as Liederbach, Bad Soden, Sulzbach and Eschborn in the middleground (Frankfurt in the back)
The state chancellery building in the capital city of Wiesbaden