Lorelei saga

This area is also famous for probably one of germany's most famous sagas. The lorelei, the  Siren who, with her beautifull singen, seduced and distracted the boatsman on the Rhine whose ships awaited iminent desctruction on collossion with the loreley Rock.

The Lorelei song the therefore also a famous folk song in Germany and has been composed by Heinrich Heine in 1822. It tells the story...