any one ever go there ? i went 1968 and 1969 late november to build the annexe,s before the lads came early december for the sking, i have a few photos of us building the place, the only name i remember from the time is l/cpl les caton. we travelled down from bunde in convoy one of the 10 tonners got detached from the convoy when we went back to find him he was at the side of the autobahn and said he had run out of diesel, we all started laughing as his load was jerry cans full of diesel.




that sheet metal was cold in the morning

the day we arrived there was no snow and as it was getting late we had a few beers and got our heads down,in the morning we woke up to this scene, we then had to get the equipment up the side of the mountain i tried to drive my 3 tonner up there getting stuck not to far from the top then we had to carry everthing up there hard work but a good laugh.


the day we arrived



next morning



along hard slog


well stuck but once unloaded no problems sliding back down

oldtimer,

Is that Hinterstein, or Hinterstien

Paul.

sorry paul never been very good at spelling, i was having a nightmare putting photos up as i think i put the wrong code in and could not log off hope it works better now

hinterstien is near Bad Hindelang, Germany, its on the austrian german border,bad hindelang is the nearest town about 3 miles away
really having a senior moment this morning, sorry about the first photos to big, now they are on thumbnails able to log out.

paul. (its like an echo with us both being paul)

have sent some hope it works,dont have much luck with computers better at building motorbikes. if you click on any of the thumbnails it will take you to my album on photobucket where you can see other photos from other places ,a lot more are some where on my hard drive yet to upload to photobucket.

paul

Got them OK.

I am putting together a page to go on the main site. Will let you know when it is up.

Paul.

stephen is correct paul i have since found a postcard which says hinterstein and in brackets behind the rock.

the problem i have is a british education where it was drummed in to us i before e except after c, but they never told me it doesnt work with place names.

glad you found it funny about the diesel stephen,the poor driver never heard the last of it.lol

Learning more about the actual geographic location of Hinterstein, and therefore some insight into the name itself, is interesting.

I was, actually, going to originally translate it as "behind the stone" as "hinten" is "back of" or "behind" but decided that would translate too clumsily..."Backstone" sounded much more like a place name and one that I figured British guys could better relate to as it sounds quite "British" when translated....of course -- and keeping in mind I barely escaped with my life the last time I suggested this LOL -- both English and German are closely related. English is a Germanic language, after all. (quickly ducks!!!)

The other thing I find interesting when it comes to British/German place names or various geographical descriptions is the close similarity they have to each other...and how totally logical the names are.

Anything with 'ford' in it literally means crossing of or crossing at and is, of course, an Old English/Saxon word (Norse, even...think fjord).

Or anything with 'stone' in it often refers to local stone features of some sort, or outcroppings of cliffs, or some such.

I forget now what 'bury' means (as in Glastonbury), but I seem to recall it refers to a large, isolated, hill or perhaps a hill fort....

German place names follow a very similar, almost identical, logic.