Misty Lubeck: a legend about the formation of the city, deer and Heinrich Leo

Did you dream of finding a treasure? Yes, what I ask, everyone secretly hopes that countless riches will fall on him from above, that he will bathe in gold and not work. And imagine a live treasure that runs on legs? For its extraction, you need to work hard, catch it and only then spend it on planned needs, it was such a treasure that Prince Leo found in the German region of Lübeck.

Local guides tell the same story as one, twisting the creaking hand of a creaking barrel organ, but it continues to bring positive emotions and is deposited on the brains of the gullible tourists like fat in the sides after a sweet cake.

Rumor has it that allegedly in the eighth century in the local Saxon forests Charles the Great himself hunted with his retinue. It was he who noticed among the trees a large deer, so large that he decided to drive him, and hang his horns as a keepsake over his wife’s bed. There would be a Russian fairy tale, I would say that the lord rode after him at full speed for three nights and three days, until he caught up and hit his horns, but the fairy tale was German, so half a day of chasing a beer is enough.

And when he caught up with the beast, he was sorry for her, and decided not to kill the deer, but to baptize. “What?” You ask. Well, I don’t know how to otherwise describe the whole process, as a result of which the king hung a “crucifix” with a thick golden chain on his horns and sent this living treasure to the forest. We will assume that we have “baptized,” especially since we will need this belly for Christian purposes.

All this story and fairy tale would be well forgotten if, after almost four centuries, the Saxon Duke Heinrich Leo had not experienced financial difficulties in building the main cathedral of the German Lübeck. He really wanted to smear the local residents, but there was a catastrophic lack of finance for the completion of brick Gothic architecture.

Taping from the grief of the mash, having conceived the Duma, he took his whole retinue and decided to go hunting, so that there his clever thought would overshadow or let go of sadness. As befits, in the woods I noticed a hero already familiar to us, he marvelously jumped through the forest, and in the horns, we can say that in the forehead, there was a huge diamond.

Yes, yes, not just a cross on a golden chain, but a hefty diamond like that ide. Rumor has it that the chain and jewelry grew with the deer, like apples in your country house - large, large, shimmering in the rays of the setting sun. Well, our Leo could not resist such a temptation and planted a bullet from a gun on a deer between the eyes.

He crashed to the ground, and the duke collected jewelry and brought money to the city to complete the temple.

But lest you think that the legend is bloodthirsty and the deer has hoarded itself in vain, I will say that after that he got up from the ground, as in a cartoon, shook off the dirt and galloped off into the depths of the forest. Here is such an unexpected happy end.

Yes, yes, in the legends it also happens that all the temples are built and the deer are intact.

Now you will begin to say that I caught up with the fog in this walk, telling all sorts of tales here. But I wanted to share an untold legend about the city, about which I already told you quite a lot.