Low-lying clouds, 5 ° C and drizzling rain welcomed me when I got off in Medewitz (Mark). Since I was traveling alone today, I wanted to see a few unknown things in Fläming.

On the one hand, the "Kanonenbahn" in the Güterglück-Wiesenburg section, which has been shut down for 15 years. Unfortunately, this… leggi altro

Nice tour with nice (and for me as a train fan sad) pictures.

That about the cannon train is really a shame, it is a special victim of the rail reform and its privatization.

There are two good films about this:



and



@DerF: Thank you for your comment and the links to the videos. For years it has actually been clear that more rail will be needed again for the energy and transport turnaround. Their junctions and main routes are known to be overloaded. And here you do not manage to save an ideally suitable relief route… leggi altro

The route combination is very successful! I have to admit that I can't do that much with most of the works of art on the way (my favorite, the waterfall for the Fläming, is on the north route), the photos of the cannon train interest me all the more. I've also thought about doing tours on disused railway… leggi altro

Burkhard, thank you for your comment. Perhaps one shouldn't take that about art too seriously. For me, however, the installations were a welcome and unconventional distraction on the drawn-out path. Most works of art, no matter how different they are designed, have something to do with the local landscape… leggi altro