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the spring equinox
Ballon d'Alsace

At the spring equinox, if we observe it from the Ballon d’Alsace, the sun rises behind the Black Forest Belchen 70 km away

Anfang Mai / Beltene
Ballon d'Alsace
About 40 days after the spring equinox, beginning of the Celtic summer half-year, the sun rises in the east-northeast behind the summit of the Grand Ballon.
21.6 summer solstice
Ballon d'Alsace

At the summer solstice, the sun rises in the northeast above the Markstein, in the direction of the Petit Ballon

Anfang August / Lugnasad
Ballon d'Alsace
About 40 days after the summer solstice, the sun rises in the east-northeast, behind the summit of the Grand Ballon.
22.9. the autumn equinox
Ballon d'Alsace

At the autumnal equinox, if we observe it from the Ballon d’Alsace, the sun rises behind the summit of Schwarzwaldbelchen 70 km away.

Anfang November / Samhain
Ballon d'Alsace

About 40 days after the autumn equinox, beginning of the Celtic winter half-year. The three Celtic settlements Britzgyberg, Basel-Gasfabrik and Augusta Raurica are on the line of the sunrise.

21.12. Winter solstice
Ballon d'Alsace

The sun rises in the southeast behind the Tödi in the Glarus Alps, in between lies the Jura Belchen

Anfang Februar / Imbolc
Ballon d'Alsace
About 40 days after the winter solstice, middle of the Celtic winter half-year. The sun rises in east-southeast. The three Celtic settlements Britzgyberg, Basel-Gasfabrik and Augusta Raurica are on the line of the sunrise.

Hippoltskirch

The little church on the Ill

The little church on the Ill

If you drive from Oltingue along the Ill via Raedersdorf upstream to Ligsdorf, you come across Hippoltskirch, a quiet hamlet at the intersection of two former Roman roads that intersect on the route from Oltingue to Winkel and from Sondersdorf to Kiffis. The place consists of only four houses. Hippoltskirch is an early place of worship dedicated to St. Martin. This proves the age of the chapel, whose construction dates back to the Franconian-Merovingian missionary period.

In the past, from May 3 to September 14, the Sondersdorfer had regularly carried out a procession to the Martinskapelle on Saturdays between the two “Kreuztagen”, probably to request good weather; on Markustag there were also residents of Raedersdorf and Ligsdorf. Over time the memory of the time-honored Martin’s patron saint vanished and today only the old high altarpiece in the chapel remembers it.

The painted coffered ceiling, possibly from the Ulrichs chapel in Sondersdorf, is remarkable and classified as a “monument historique”, because a picture shows the victory of St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, over the Hungarians in 955 at the battle on the Lechfeld.

Until the 19th century, Hippoltskirch was associated with a hermitage as a place of pilgrimage. We do not know where the magnificent statue of Our Lady comes from and how it got into the Martins Chapel; According to legend, the miraculous image was found in a bush on the side of the path. Votive plates and pictures still testify to its veneration.