#simrock

Not only have 341 people now watched the - admittedly rather cheap - Lisztomanie video, no, we also seem to have a clear favourite among the album songs with the most listeners. And that's another @franzliszt-official Lisztober song….Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth. :)

I'm particularly pleased about that, because the daily view of the Rolandsbogen in the fog was extremely inspiring for the whole month. Oh, Franz. One day we'll make it over again and we'll hug your plantain on the island ;)

Just to make another small connection, how you can find connections everywhere and how small the world is: Ferdinand Freiligrath, who wrote the poem ‘Oh lieb, so lang Du lieben kannst’ (aka Liszt's Liebentraum No 3), lived here for a few years in the neighbouring village and fought for the reconstruction of the Rolandsbogen.

And a few streets further on is Karl Simrock's ‘Haus Parzival’, where the Grimms, Heine, Chamisso and von Humboldt hung out.

Somewhere next to the Rolandsbogen, by the way, Nietzsche once wanted to fight a duel.