and lastly
Auf Wiedersehen - goodbye - au revoir до свидания - 再會 - ¡adiós! Dear reader, this is the end of our tour through my ‘treasure chamber’. A long tour – yet there is such a lot you haven’t seen. So much I would still like to show you and tell you about. Take the wonderful yellow sapphire, one of the most popular coloured gemstones in India. There, it has since time immemorial symbolised wealth and health, glory, honour and success, and is also said to have a favourable influence on pregnancy and childbirth. 178
Or the bixbite, the rare red beryl from Utah, which is given its exciting colour by lithium and manganese. Any many more ... That’s why I invite you without further ado to come and pay another visit to my house, in our town of Idar-Oberstein with its wonderful landscape.
Always worth a visit Idar-Oberstein is always worth a visit. Not only because the ‘town of
gemstones and jewellery’ is a true paradise for all who love sparkling gemstones and finest jewellery. Not only for friends of art and culture who wish to visit our unique Felsenkirche.
Art, culture – and joie de vivre Idar-Oberstein and the surrounding country also offer gourmets some exquisite specialities: I have already mentioned the spiessbraten, but there are dishes like gefillte klees, kartoffelwurst and schliffers gereeste,