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After the annual
meeting taking place at the sea, we had a new
destination in Thüringen
this time: the Thüringer Becken (map).
The landscape is flat in this area, and does not have anything
common with the Thüringer Wald (forest). It is an ideal starting
point for tours to the Eichsfeld, the Kyffhäuser or the
Thüringer Wald.
Bypassing any Autobahn - and therefore
free of obstructions and stressless - I got on thursday (21.6.98)
in cool but motorcycle-friendly weather - dry - from Berlin to
Thüringen (not everyone was that lucky). The last part of the
journey lead me through the Kyffhäuser: besides the famous
memorial, there is the interesting Barbarossa cave, I chose as an
intermediate stop. Just in time for dinner I arrived at the
destination.
The announced old farmhouse (18.-20. century) in the
little village Lützensömmern showed up as a manor. Those who
think the manor were a highly manorial castle are wrong:
Following the cartoon at the road through the dilapidated gate,
an enormous graffitti at the opposite house wall is seen. The
decay, the LPG charme and modern made-up rooms meet contrasting,
emphasized by the young-alternative touch of the castel lord, a
teen in torn jeans, continuously walking around in the ground,
looking for everything beeing ok. The scouts coming from
different countries staying here for the care of the German and
international song camped in the park of the property and
accompanied everything with bongos and other instruments giving a
special touch to the convention house.
The rooms were located in one of the buildings that have been
nearly completely renovated framework house and therefore are
modern and equipped with shower and toilet, even the furniture
consisting of creaking beds and decaying chairs could wake up
some ostalgia. About one dozen of participiants, most of them
from Berlin, but also some guests from elsewhere were
accomodated.
The cultural
program scheduled the visit of some castles in the region. Friday
starting with a highlight: the castle Burg Gleichenstein in the
Eichsfeld, where a falcon farm performed impressive shows with
their birds.
Back to the manor the dinner was served. The camp
fire was set up in a barrel in the cool night. Now, there was a
choice between relaxed talk together in the warm rooms or
visiting the sounds of the folklore of the other guests.
Saturday
too, castles and ruins had to be visited. Castle riun Hanstein
for example was monted by 12 grown-ups and one handicapped with
attendant. coffee and cake were taken in the rustical rooms of a
historic building nowadays used as a restaurant, eating up new
strength in order to storm the next ruin - Mühlberg.
This evening was
arranged as a grill evening organized by the leather club of
Thüringen (TLC)
in the garden of one of their members. In a very individual
ambiente of shed, shower curtain and flower meadow finished the
relaxed part.
Sunday
terminated the event, time to return home except for those
remaining one day more. Attractive intermadiate stops like the
castle in Sondershausen helped accidental event of an unexpected
soon meeting of the ones travelling home and the ones having the
additional day ...
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