Info-Haselünne   Die Hansestadt im Herzen des Emsland 

Ghosts and spirits - hounting and charming

Any decent town is hounted by some spirits and ghosts. People with low spirits, people with high spirits, liquor spirits, halloween ghosts, graveyard ghosts, ghostwriters, fairies, ghosts of dark or charming memorys, ghosts of great  history - you will allways find a fair amount of spirits and ghosts all over the town.

Haselünne has some outstanding members of these ghostly association :

First, there are the spirits,  ( " Weingeist "= spirit of vine, spiritus vini, also called alcohol ) . Several generations of the families Berentzen, Heydt and Rosche produced ( and still produce ) highly intoxicating spirits named "Korn". ( By the way, the one with the biggest sales doesn´t allways produce the best Korn ). Nowadays, you can buy spirits sparkling all colors of the rainbow, suiting every taste, all made in Haselünne.

Berentzen AG alone, now selling worldwide, produces enough spirits to sustain the small Meppen-Haselünner railway, a private railway compagny. Not only does this railway compagny provide cheap cargo fares, it also entertains a small museum train still going with a steam engine.

Thanks to these spirits, the town of Haselünne not only gets jobs and taxes, but also also some touristic attractions.  There ist the distillery museum, the "Korn"-academy ( gerat fun ! ), a good looking "Korn"-Queen and last, but not least, a big fair every two years, the historic "Korn-and Hanse" market. In time, we will provide you with some fotos.