Pay the Piper
In northwestern Germany, surrounded by rolling hills that verge on the Weser Mountain Region to the south, there lies a town. It is one of several towns that straddle the River Weser as it flows toward the North Sea. The region was inhabited as long ago as the Stone Age, but it wasn’t until the middle of the ninth century AD when a Benedictine monastery was built on the banks of the river that a village began to develop. By…