This commune I have visited on Friday 28.03.2025 with the local buses from Osnabrück. Bad Essen is located in the North East of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, it has 16,000 residents. It is a spa town for its brine. Even the open-air swimming-pool is a brine pool. The center In the center of the commune, there is the Saint Nikolai church that was built in the 14th century. Around the church there is the Kirchplace with some restaurants. Yes, they…
Today I visited the Baldeney lake in Essen. History of the lake The lake was built between 1931 and 1933 in order to production of power. Yes, it is an artificial lake that dams the river Ruhr. The weir is on the West side of the lake. Here is also a lock and a fish pass. On the south side there was in the past a coal mine, the coal mine Pörtingsiepen and the Hespertalbahn, an old train line brought…
The Möhne lake is in Germany in an area that is called Sauerland between the little towns of Soest and Arnsberg and the bis city of Dortmund in the east. It is a lake where you can swim in summer, making boat trips and hiking around the lake. In the south of the lake there is a tower that you can go on it and watch the lake and there are a lot of restaurants where you can eat and…
On 20.03.2025 I was at the airport of Dortmund. This airport is on the east side of the Ruhr area (Ruhrgebiet) and it is a small one. General information The only runway has length about 2,000 meters. The main airline is Wizz Air that has now (data from March 2025) a lot of connections to East Europe. Ryanair will remove all connection from Dortmund on 29.03.2025 because Germany with a lot of taxes is too expensive to the airport. At…
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