Hann Münden

And then bye...

After about 1,700 km, lots of bruises (due to the somewhat cramped rolling home), a thousand beautiful images in our heads and a lovely breakfast with our friend (she brought rolls from the next town especially for us - friendship, after all!), we set off on the journey home with one smile and one tear in our eyes.

And today we visited a place that we didn't know before. The city where the Weser was "born". Two rivers meet here and the resulting river gets a completely new name: WESER. There is also a poem about it that can be read on a plaque on the Weserstein.
WHERE WERRA AND FULDA KISS, THEY HAVE TO PAY FOR THEIR NAMES. AND HERE, THROUGH THIS KISS, THE WESER RIVER IS CREATED, WHICH FLOWS GERMANLY TO THE SEA.
Every child in this area had to learn this in elementary school.

Hannoversch Münden, or Hann. Münden for short, offers campers and motorhome owners a particularly beautiful place between the two feet. And many people used it today. There are of course also restaurants on the "island" and a very small kiosk opposite the pier for a pleasure boat. The kiosk called ANKERPLATZ only offers seating outside on the square with the Weserstein and an ancient chestnut tree, around whose gigantic trunk a bench has been built so that people can sit here in the dry when it is sunny or raining.
In the town centre there are many half-timbered houses with various shops, bakers, butchers (who are called Fleischer here) and a very large town hall. On the square in front of it there are small springs of water, which then disappear under the pavement and then resurface as a stream a little further on and flow a few metres through the town.

This place is also worth seeing, and anyone who is on holiday nearby should definitely stop here for a few hours, stroll around, enjoy coffee and cake and, with a bit of luck, take a short boat trip; a guided tour of the town is also worthwhile. The story of Doctor Eisenbart, who lived and practiced here in his own way, is also explained here.

This trip was more unexpectedly exciting, thrilling and worth seeing than we could have ever imagined. Even though I often looked at abandoned houses with sadness, it was also reassuring to know that many people have enough ideas and money to maintain and live in these wonderful houses.

Since we often only used federal and state roads to travel from place to place, we saw such a diverse landscape that it was a real joy.

See you soon!