image author: G.Kirchhof

North of the village Scharnhorst is the so-called Hohenbostel field located. Here an artist created a 'magical place', which remembers a historical incident. Hohenbostel field - the ending 'bostel' (burstal = farmstead) indicates that a farmhouse with acreage was located here, to which just this Hohenbostel filed belonged.
This Hohenbostel field, situated opposite Scharnhorst is much higher and so explains the first part of the village name Hohen (high) bostel.

By researching field names one assumed that a settlement or even a village Hohenbostel near Scharnhorst existed and was then abandoned.

The reasons to abandon a settlement could have been manifold. Causes to force the population to give up might have been economical reasons e.g. due to the late-Middle Ages grain crisis in Germany, famine, illnesses like pestilence, climate changes or loss through wars.

Why the medieval settlement Hohnebostel in question was abandoned is not known. Unclear is also the exact location. Now archaeology has to find answers...

If you look through the wind chime by Wulf Nolte, sees the Hohenbostel field in the background.
Nolte's sculpture unites the old with the contemporary. Ho combines old oak beams with contemporary lacquered boards.

The four squares are to represent four farms like an abandoned village with four falls farms through which the wind blows. This is illustrated by the lacquered boards' turning.