If one takes the highway 258 from east in direction Aachen, passing through Trier Strasse and Adalbertsteinweg, one sees it from afar. It lies on the horizon in the middle of the street. As if it were painted. The Lousberg. Also considered the Dutch snow mountain, it looks like an unnatural elevation. And it is one too. Created not by God's hand, but thanks to the devil's work.
In the transaction to finance the cathedral building, the cunning Aachen inhabitants had not only severely duped the devil but also hurt him in the most painful way. This called for revenge. Aachen should be destroyed forever including its cathedral.
At the North Sea our cloven-hoofed shoveled tons of sand into huge sacks. He only had to haul them to Aachen. The town and its inhabitants should suffocate under the sand.
The day was hot, the sun burned his face. The sacks weighed on his shoulders. In addition the wind arose and blew his sand in his face. He gasped a little, he could not see anything anymore.
The horned put down the bags, when he met an old, poor-looking woman. "Good lady, how far is it to Aachen?" he asked, his eyes glued by the sand dust. The farmer's wife was "lous", which means somehow smart. She had noticed the cloven hoof and the tail of the hiker.
She said, she was coming from Aachen market. She showed him the now rock-hard bread in her basket, and the worn shoes and she stressed, that she had bought them at the market. It is terribly far to Aachen. The angry Satan wanted to shoulder again the heavy load, there she had the presence of mind to throw a rosary on the devil's freight. Discouraged, Lucifer left the sacks and ran away while cursing. Most of the sand is the current Lousberg, two smaller quantities the Salvatorberg and the Wingertsberg. They consist of pure sea sand mixed with pieces of shell and seaweed. With a little luck one may even find fossilized sea creatures in it.
In 1985 the Aachen artist Christa Löneke-Kemmerling created the bronze sculpture "The devil and the market woman", which at the feet of the Lousberg in the upper Kupferstraße testimonies how an ordinary woman saved Aachen inhabitants. This shows that Aachen inhabitants are too smart even for the devil: "De Oecher send the Düvel ze lous".
In the transaction to finance the cathedral building, the cunning Aachen inhabitants had not only severely duped the devil but also hurt him in the most painful way. This called for revenge. Aachen should be destroyed forever including its cathedral.
At the North Sea our cloven-hoofed shoveled tons of sand into huge sacks. He only had to haul them to Aachen. The town and its inhabitants should suffocate under the sand.
The day was hot, the sun burned his face. The sacks weighed on his shoulders. In addition the wind arose and blew his sand in his face. He gasped a little, he could not see anything anymore.
The horned put down the bags, when he met an old, poor-looking woman. "Good lady, how far is it to Aachen?" he asked, his eyes glued by the sand dust. The farmer's wife was "lous", which means somehow smart. She had noticed the cloven hoof and the tail of the hiker.
She said, she was coming from Aachen market. She showed him the now rock-hard bread in her basket, and the worn shoes and she stressed, that she had bought them at the market. It is terribly far to Aachen. The angry Satan wanted to shoulder again the heavy load, there she had the presence of mind to throw a rosary on the devil's freight. Discouraged, Lucifer left the sacks and ran away while cursing. Most of the sand is the current Lousberg, two smaller quantities the Salvatorberg and the Wingertsberg. They consist of pure sea sand mixed with pieces of shell and seaweed. With a little luck one may even find fossilized sea creatures in it.
In 1985 the Aachen artist Christa Löneke-Kemmerling created the bronze sculpture "The devil and the market woman", which at the feet of the Lousberg in the upper Kupferstraße testimonies how an ordinary woman saved Aachen inhabitants. This shows that Aachen inhabitants are too smart even for the devil: "De Oecher send the Düvel ze lous".
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