ThomasSep 5, 2022
Welcome back to my second 9€ ticket tour to nearby places. The small town of Betzdorf at river Sieg is surely far from beautiful. Betzdorf is located is a valley basin so there is not much place for symmetry in the town structure. I entered the town by bus coming from the hills and it doesn't look better from above, unfortunately. Most of the town got destroyed during WWII so there's a lot of functional buildings, too. But it is also the start of one of Germany's shortest train routes: 9.9 km
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This route is a ride through a narrow valley with some villages and industry. The latter is the reason why there is a train line after all. The endpoint is a more beautiful village called Daaden with 4200 inhabitants, a neat little train station, and half-timbered houses. But unfortunately there's not much time. My bus departs shortly after the arrival of the train ... or only two hours later. So I see most of the village through the windows of the bus only while we creep up the hills again.
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We leave the bus at Elkenroth village. There's nothing special here but we're going on a 9km hike to the town of #Hachenburg. The drought is very obvious as most meadows turned yellow. But I really like the hilly landscape with all those tree rows. You can spot some more industry on top of the hill. Many small-scale manufacturing enterprises that are typical for the German countryside. The large road got closed for cars several years ago and is a bicycle paradise now. Nature took back part of it
Sep 5, 2022 at 8:21pmWeb