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Germany : Bayern

1.2 km (0.7 miles) W of Bad Alexandersbad-Kleinwendern, Bayern, Germany
Approx. altitude: 777 m (2549 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 50°S 168°W

Accuracy: 7 m (22 ft)
Quality: good

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

#2: View looking North #3: View looking East #4: View looking South #5: View looking West #6: All the Zeros #7: Top of the mountain #8: Biggest Felsenlabyrinth in Europe #9: Map of the Labyrinth #10: Saving €4.50

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#1: The Confluence (about 5 metres away)

(visited by David Williams)

23-Aug-2015 -- This really is a very nice confluence. I did my research - and made sure I had a proper topographic map on my phone. Parked a few hundred metres short of the main "Felsenlabyrinth" parking and ambled through sunny and silent forest to the confluence - there are good tracks all the way there.

As experienced by previous visitors - GPS reception is poor at the confluence point and it took a long time to get "all the zeros".

On a whim I walked to the top of the hill - and it is clearly somewhere special - previous visitors including Goethe, Ludwig Tieck, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, plus assorted crowned heads of Europe. Great views.

Following the high ground north toward the Felsen-thingy the forest suddenly became very busy - the labyrinth, the biggest of its type in Europe, is clearly a popular tourist attraction and by coming at it "from the back side" I had avoided the €4.50 entrance fee. There is a theatre, shops, cafes, and restaurants. On the way back to my car I took an indistinct path, passing a neglected war memorial.


 All pictures
#1: The Confluence (about 5 metres away)
#2: View looking North
#3: View looking East
#4: View looking South
#5: View looking West
#6: All the Zeros
#7: Top of the mountain
#8: Biggest Felsenlabyrinth in Europe
#9: Map of the Labyrinth
#10: Saving €4.50
ALL: All pictures on one page