Republications of German geomantic works

In the 1930s and 40s, while the Straight Track Club in Britain was following up the work of Watkins, similar work was being carried out in Germany. In the 1970s some of this German work was brought out of the archives by the Institute of Geomantic Research (Nigel Pennick, Prudence Jones and others) and published in English. On this website works by two researchers, Josef Heinsch and Kurt Gerlach, are republished both in English and in the original German. The articles by Gerlach, which had to be abridged somewhat in the IGR version, are here published in full. I have made a few slight changes to the translations, but for the most part they are as published in the 1970s.

• Josef Heinsch, „Grundsätze vorzeitlicher Kultgeographie“ (1938)
• “Principles of prehistoric sacred geography”
• Michael Behrend, Introduction to Leys of the German Empire (articles by Gerlach) (1976)
• Kurt Gerlach, „Frühdeutsche Landmessungen“ (1940)
• “Early German land surveys”
• Kurt Gerlach, „Böhmische Dörfer – geortet!“ (1940)
• “Bohemian villages – oriented!”
• Kurt Gerlach, „‚Heilige‘ oder zweckmäßige Linien über Böhmen“ (1942)
• “‘Holy’ or functional lines over Bohemia”
• Kurt Gerlach, „‚Richt‘-Linien durch Deutschland“ (1943)
• “Guidelines through Germany”