Scotland / Schottland

The next day, we're going to Holy Island.

here we will be accommodated for the next two nights

today we are on our way to Holy Island

Wadden walk and Kneipp at the same time

Holy island is a tidal island as access is via a paved dam which is covered twice every 24 hours by the North Sea. Pilgrims use the seabed as a hiking trail and orient themselves on meter-high wooden poles which point the way to their destination.

The historic island is located just outside the far northeast corner of England near Berwick-upon-Tweed. The small population of a little more than 160 people is contrasted by well over 650,000 visitors who come from all over the world every year.

on a walk through Lindisfarne, discovered this café!!

Keltenkreuz has some to admire here on the island. A Celtic cross, high cross or Irish cross is an element of early medieval and medieval sacred art in the Celtic cultural area of the British Isles and Ireland. A beam cross with extended supporting beam, mostly carved in stone, with a ring around the intersection of the beams. In heraldry this form, which has spread in folklore as far as Sweden (Midsummer Cross), is also called wheel cross.

this was my first mobile vehicle which accompanied me to many places, this one made it to the far north :-)

St. Cuthbert's Centre, the United Reformed Church on the Holy Island Holy Island is a special place in the northeast of England, separated from Northumberland by a 4 mile causeway, which is covered twice a day by the North Sea for 5 hours each time. Holy Island is not only a place of natural beauty, it is also the place where Christianity first arrived in England in 635 AD. Since then it has been a place of pilgrimage.

The Anglo-Saxon monastery of Lindisfarne on the island of Lindisfarne off the north-east coast of England in the county of Northumberland. In 635, Scottish monks led by St. Aidan founded an abbey on the island of Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island. It was continued by Saint Cuthbert, who also became the first bishop of Lindisfarne. After his death the Lindisfarne Gospels, a gospel book, were made, the monastery became a place of pilgrimage. Soon Lindisfarne became a centre of Celtic monastic culture, a place of faith, art and scholarship, famous for its writing school. From the island, the monks promoted the Christianization of England, but soon came into conflict with Roman missionaries directly commissioned by the Pope. On 8 June 793, Lindisfarne was attacked by Vikings. In 875 Bishop Eardulf left the monastery at Lindisfarne with the monks for fear of further Viking raids. They took with them the remains of Saints Cuthbert, Aidan, Eadberht, Eadfrith, Æthelwald and the Book of Lindisfarne.

The Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin The Church of the Virgin Mary is considered to be the oldest building on the Holy Island. It is also the only building on the island with works from the Saxon period, The church dates from the 12th and 13th centuries.

The Journey This statue - "The Journey" - was made by Fenwick Lawson, who also created the statue of Saint Cuthbert in the ruins of the Priory. It was carved from an elm with chain saws, the monks of Lindisfarne are shown carrying the body of St. Cuthbert on their shoulders, so the monks left the island after the Viking attacks.

walk along the coast to Lindisfarne Castle you can see the Castle on the left backside

walk along the coast to the Lindisfarne Castle, past various stone man sculptures, which are built mainly by children

Lindisfarne Castle, is a 16th century castle rebuilt in 1901 by Sir Edwin Lutyens into a manor house. Holy Island and the castle can be reached from the mainland at low tide via a dam or on foot. The castle stands in a once hard-fought border region between England and Scotland. Not only the English and Scots but also the Vikings fought in the area. The castle was built at the time the Lindisfarne Priory was dissolved. Bricks from the priory were then used as building material for the castle. At the highest point of the island it still stands today.

on the way back to lindisfarne, all in a row or not at all the two brown heads don't belong to it :-)

another view back to Lindisfarne Castle