IVd.04    Section Blankenrode - Adorf   33 km

Blankenrode

Oesdorf                            7,2 km

Essentho                          4,9 km

Niedermarsberg                 3,7 km

Giershagen                     12,9 km

Adorf                              4,3 km

After a few kilometres I arrived at the deserted town Blankenrode. Here a fortified town was completely burned down in 1390 and never rebuild. Today there are still earthen walls and ditches visible. Todays Blankenrode is a few kilometres away. Then I had to cross a motorway. From now on there were many open fields with longer paved stretches. In Essentho I had a piece of cake with green tea. The bakery is directly adjacent of the E1. Next town I came to was Marsberg. Here in Untermarsberg (Lower Marsberg) near a memorial to washwomen I crossed river Diemel. I also stopped for lunch at a restaurant. From here I had to climb to Obermarsberg (Upper Marsberg). Being higher up I had a good view of the valley of river Diemel. Towards evening I got to near the village of Adorf, a part of Diemelsee. Along the path I saw many wind power plants. I asked a farmer for permission to camp over night on his farmland. He agreed and I staid near Martenbergklippe in a former rock pit.

Deserted town Blankenrode

Monument for washwomen in Marsberg at river Diemel

View from Obermarsberg

First flowers in an otherwise bleak leave forest at E1

Monument for former slate mining

Camp in an old rock pit near Adorf

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