The motto of this year's "Heilbronn Cultural Region" is "Strong Women". We are building on this with a trilogy of themed tours that focus on different aspects of ancient goddesses and other female figures.
It is hardly surprising that female goddesses were associated with fertility in ancient times: Demeter/Ceres is just as much a part of this as Proserpina, of whom one of only two mentions in Baden-Württemberg has been handed down from Güglingen - or the matrons from the Gallo-Roman area, who often appear in a magical trinity.
In the world of imagination, aspects of the underworld were always closely associated with fertility, as were elements of the female essence, in which the subconscious, the hidden, that which could not be rationally explained, was seen.
Themed tour with Frank Merkle M.A.
Date: Sunday, 18.10.2026, 11 a.m.
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
It is hardly surprising that female goddesses were associated with fertility in ancient times: Demeter/Ceres is just as much a part of this as Proserpina, of whom one of only two mentions in Baden-Württemberg has been handed down from Güglingen - or the matrons from the Gallo-Roman area, who often appear in a magical trinity.
In the world of imagination, aspects of the underworld were always closely associated with fertility, as were elements of the female essence, in which the subconscious, the hidden, that which could not be rationally explained, was seen.
Themed tour with Frank Merkle M.A.
Date: Sunday, 18.10.2026, 11 a.m.
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
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