Labyrinth at Hohenroth

The SOS Dorfgemeinschaft Hohenroth in 97737 Gemünden (Germany) celebrates from July 12 to 13, 2008 with a large cultural festivity 30 years of existence. The slogan is: “To show ability and to celebrate community.” For this holiday VIPS and other people are announced. There are numerous single events.
And there is also a labyrinth. Here are the pictures from the building some days before.

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More information on the website of the SOS-Dorfgemeinschaft Hohenroth (in German).

How to draw a labyrinth?

Part 1

To draw a labyrinth is quite simply. If one knows how.
The best way however to learn it is to reconstruct it with pencil on paper (maybe using an eraser?) and then to repeat it by heart again and again. After having drawn the labyrinth one is surprised, why a labyrinth develops from this, and would be gladly to had had the idea to do so. We do not know who found it out or invented it, but this method is simply ingeniously and ingeniously simple. If you can use this method correctly, you may astonish quite everyone thereby.

A cross and 4 points

The pattern

First I draw the basic pattern. That consists of 4 points in a square. Inside I draw an equal-leg cross. And into each of the 4 small squares resulting I draw a small angle.
This sample (here in black color) I note well.
It would be good to draw it again somewhere on my sheet of paper.
It is also important to have sufficient place on the paper for the following steps. I draw the pattern into the lower half on my sheet of paper, and leave enough place on the right and left side and above.

The first arc

Three curves

The most important steps will come now: I connect in sequence from the left to the right clockwise all points and line ends of the pattern in arc-shaped lines.
I begin in the middle above and make a small sheet to the right end of the line from the angle (the green arc). That will become the center. Then I connect the next free end of the line on the left side to the free point on the right side with an arc in same distance to the previous made line. And in such a way I keep moving. Thus, now I connect the left upper point with the right free line end under the upper right point. And so on. After having connected all the points and line ends a gap remains, that is the entrance.
The description sounds many more complicated than it is. Simply begin, concentrate, work always in sequence. Clockwise from left to right. And when it looks wrong, begin anew.
Try it, and when finished, control whether it is correct. By following the way with the finger or the pencil (or here with the cursor). You have drawn the delimitations. The actual way is the free area between these lines.

The classical labyrinth

May your exercises become successful.

Ariadne’s Thread

To my visitors of the first hour

Maybe you were surprised by seeing this blog now? All seems to be changed. But it is not.
The theme has changed, it is Mistylook. And it is entirely in English. As the blog too.
The German part is gone away. But not really.
You may find it under the new address: http://bloggermymaze.wordpress.com

I think it is better so, as it is more clearly now and better to understand for my English speaking visitors.
So, don’t worry. We stay always connected together through the Golden Thread of Ariadne, and through the Internet.

The first header

By the way: There is a link on the new designed website of The Labyrinth Society to this blog. Surely I take a little bit pride in this.

I would encourage more people to write blogs about the labyrinth.

Summer Solstice and Labyrinth

The labyrinth as earth sign connects us with the whole cosmos and concomitantly the sun.
In these days the astronomical summer begins, we have (here in the Northern hemisphere of the earth) the longest days and the shortest nights, the sun stands most highly in the sky. On June 21 we had the summer solstice.
All kinds of customs and celebrations are connected with it. We do not know if there is any direct relation to the (old, historical) labyrinth. Some wanted to see in its courses an image of the planets, others referenced to the sun, quite others wanted to discover a calendar.

The labyrinth on the Benediktushof at sunset

The labyrinth invites us to turn ourselves in its turns, and to turn us to the light.

Here a post to the labyrinth of Steigra shall be reminded, where on summer solstice the sun sets down behind the entrance of the labyrinth.