GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 684, sig. 110-4/535

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Special print from Germania 1942 Kurt Gerlach / "Holy" or useful lines over Bohemia An order from the astrological point of view is less in the sense of the German. An order is seen from practical points of view. Here a line network is shown over the landscape, which, despite its impermanence, has to make clear, because it is practical and moreover not constructed by us, but derived from historical circumstances, that is, is actually. Already in the seventh and eighth issue of the 1940s, readers of the magazine "Germanien" were presented with a first incomplete collection of material from a system of lines bearing the following characteristics: The same places, designed in the same distance rhythm, related to each other by the fact of equal basic rule, led to a central line, which was rooted in the height of the Prague Castle. – In issue zwolf of the year 1940 of the present magazine an extension of this schematism was given beyond Prague to the south, through the zebraf places. Here a gap in the research had to arise as long as a smaller sense of gutraternder, to which such statements appeared "phantly" restrained. It was only when we removed the shackles of shyness from the assumption of broad, superstitious and supranational, i.e. rich or ecclesiastical judges and locoators, that we were able to get further: from the south-west, from the capital of the Ottonian Empire, we stabbed into our system, and we hit the core of the matter. In the fourth volume on page 200 in his "Church History of Bohemia" (Prague 1878), Bishop Anton Frind of Leitmeritz casually makes the remark that Taus was also a propsty of the Ostrow island monastery (located at the influence of Sassau-Sazawa in the Vltava). Thus the key was given. The line from Taus to Prague leads over the Königsburg Zebraf-Betlarn and over St. Johann unter dem Felsen an der Lodentiz, a propsty of Ostro St. Johann. The desert saint John the Baptist was the patron saint of the hermits who settled the island monastery. It still had propstei in Ottau-Zaton near Krummau in the south of the Bohemian country on the Vltava, and in Schlan. Ottau lies as a conclusion on the line that runs from Prague through Ostro. The points Prague-Ostro-St. Johann under the rock form an equilateral triangle with a side length of 143