One town. Two tricksters. Seven centuries of history.

00:00 Introduction
0:07:09 Chapter I: Luna's Meadows
0:12:14 Chapter II: The First Trickster - Prince Lieschen
0:24:28 Chapter III: An Industrious Town
0:30:05 Chapter IV: Something Wicked This Way Comes
0:33:55 Chapter V: The Second Trickster - Willi Herold
0:46:44 Chapter VI: Lunzenau, a Border Town
0:59:57 Chapter VII: Ground Zero
1:04:47 Chapter VIII: A Kiss for Sleeping Beauty
1:07:57 Afterword

If you enjoyed this video, feel free to make a donation towards the Lunzenauer Heimatblatt, Lunzenau's annual historical magazine (and the source of most of the research presented here). Their bank details are as follows:

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Sources

1. Lunzenauer Heimatblatt, the town's annual historical magazine (2004-2022)
2. "Prince Lieschen and the Burning Monk: Legends, Stories and Tales from Lunzenau," Riedel Verlag, 2022
3. "Lunzenau - Overview of the Historical Development," by Franz Stüß, Druckhaus Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1982.
4. "4 Parachutist Pioneer Battalion," by Otto Schwentker, self-published, 1982.
5. "3. Infanterie-Division, 3. Infanterie-Division (mot.), 3. Panzergrenadier-Division," by Gerhard Dieckhoff, Börries Verlag Göttingen, 1960.
6. "The Emsland Executioner: The documentation of a Barbarity at the End of the War in 1945," by T. H. X. Pantcheff, Schuster Verlag, second edition, 1995.