Goetheanum Building
Inside Goetheanum
Buildings near Goetheanum...
Ruines Above Dornach
Field with Happy Cows...
More Ruines
Overlook
WWII Anti-Tank Barriers...
Dornach To Dornach Hike
Each Sunday we hike into new areas, exploring the surrounding villages around Basel. This weekend we went into the town of Dornach to hike uphill for about three hours. We stumbled across the town of Dornach, which one can easily determine as architecturally interesting. Much of the town has adopted a similar replication of Goetheanum, by creating homes that contain no right angles.
The primary structure in the center of the town is called Goetheanum, which was built in 1912, with people coming from 20 nations to assist in its’ development. The original building was made solely of wood and was a two – domed structure. All of this building took place while Europe fell into the abyss of a World War. On the evening of New Year’s Eve, 1922/23 a fire burnt Goetheanum to the ground.
A new structure comprised completely of concrete was rebuilt in its’ place and for the time was a revolutionary development. Goetheanum is a massive structure that is the headquarters of the General Anthroposophical Society, and the School of Spiritual Science, which was founded by Rudolf Steiner. Let me reiterate that again, we simply stumbled across Goetheanum and had no idea what this massive structure represented. Robert and I have not converted to the Anthroposophical Society, though we can respect and appreciate their position.
Above Dornach we found big open fields with happy cows, a ruined castle, and reminates of WWII. At the turn-around point, there was a nice overlook of the valley, and a huge tower that we didn't climb up.
3 comments:
It's amazing what you find while trapsing thorugh the woods! What a delightfully interesting town. What are the people like? Are they still enthnically diverse as those who built the original structure?
That is awesome looking. I have only seen structures like that in some bizarre painting in the modern art section at museums. I love it!!
Schoutens - you need to bomb through the woods on the Yeti. Enough with the sight-seeing, more with this destroying pristine singletrack. I want you to scare the living crizzap out of some swiss hikers when you pass them within inches while making your "brap brap" dirtbike noises.
BTW I now do that on every ride. Lou told me if I continue to make that noise, he's going to stick a mini-pump in my spokes.
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