Labyrinth

A labyrinth has, for many years been an important part of HESFES.

Each year a different one is chosen as that year’s logo and appears on our T-shirts, hoodies and posters etc.

In the past the labyrinth has been constructed on a beach (see picture on the right).

This year the labyrinth will be constructed using bent hazel sourced from a local Kent coppice.

This years Labyrinth 2011

The Augsburg councilman and humanist Sigismund Gossembrot d.Ä published in 1480 this type of labyrinth(The Gossembrot), after a pregnancy of 529 years on 23rd April 2009 a new labyrinth saw the light of day on the Magdeburg Domplatz (cathedral place).

This was the first time it was made into a walkable Labyrinth, to celebrate the 800 year anniversary of Magdeburg Cathedral, the largest and first gothical cathedral on German ground.

The Gossembrot is a seven circuit pattern with turns arranged on five ‘spokes’. It differs from other designs with the entrance to the right, and the turns ‘doubled’ or four paths deep.