Lazarus Gitschner revisited
Tales about the Untersberg region
In an Untersberg legend, a woodsman returns one day from the cave labyrinth of the mountain, apparently unharmed, to find a world that is no longer recognizable. Years seem to have passed since his mysterious disappearance, and in the unfamiliar surroundings he finds neither support nor comfort.
The audience with the archbishop gives them both a lifelong vow of silence, so that from now on no one will be disturbed by all the strange things that happened to him in the belly of the mountain.
Little is also known about the monstrous effort undertaken by a regional enterprise
to produce essential components for jet engines as well as shells of various sizes
near the Untersberg in WWII.
Under the code name "Kiesel", titanic tunnel systems were driven into the rock.
Forced laborers were used for the realization of this large-scale project.
The Untersberg was also a war zone: full of supposedly erased traces that rust away in rough quantities under the earth until they emerge again and become visible through metabolic processes in the plants or as materialization in the rock.
