Update 6: Two river junction
Hello to All!
Today we'll go a bit further along the Leubnach and dwell a bit in the not so glorious history there.
But before we start:
Sky Guy: Thanks for the compliment! 
Unfortunately it'll be some times untill the area is finished ... 
Now let's go In Medias Res and start
Update 6: Two river junction
The road on the upper left leads to Rodhof where we have been on Update 5. In the lower left corner you'll see the outskirts of Grafenaubach, to the right the main roads leads to the country (edge of the map, I might change that sometime).
To the left is the river Leubnach. The Breitenbach opens to the Leubnach from the right. It took me quite some times to arrange these rocks in the river so that their location can be regarded logical according to the water flows ...
Both rivers flow from the right to the left. At the corner where the flows they partially egalize themselves which leeds to such a conglomerate of rocks and stones. Please note that I don't regard my maps of being part of areas with high erosion like alpine areas; as such there aren't too much stones in the river beds!
A little bit below the river junction. Goldiva's props aren't only useful for tropical coasts; as you can see for at least some time of the year boats can use the Leubnach. 
The Castle Leubenstein.
Originally it has been a roman castellum protecting the road through the Leubnach valley it became a small castle in the 8th and 9th century. As it has been a wooden construction almost nothing of that time has survived. Later in the 13th century the Leubnach became a border between two Grafschaften (shires) so a custom tower with some stables has been errected to collect customs from the merchants that still were using the old roman road.
The tower was destroyed by maroding troops during the Thirty Years' War in 1644 and stayed ruined untill 1934 when the local Gauleiter fell in love with the place and decided to build a "Kraft durch Freude" - Castle for the young Nazis here. The works continued untill late 1938 so little HJ boys stayed here during their school holidays. Right after the campaign against France in 1940 the castle was turned into a hospital for injured soldiers that were badly injured in their face. After the D-Day it was turned into a normal hospital.
In March 1945 American troups where approaching thus the evacuation of the injured soldiers began. Unfortunately a company of young Waffen SS wanted to play hero and blew up the old wooden bridges and began a fight against the American tanks. As a result of this more than 200 injured (mostly German but also some allied) soldiers died when the castle caught fire. In addition to this appr. 30% of Grafenaubach was destroyed by American Artillery as they wereb't able to proceed immediately over the Leubnach.
The battle was completely senseless as it didn't delay the American campaign at all. The price was more than 300 persons killed...
After the war a new concrete bridge was build next to the castle. The castle stayed ruined untill 1953 when it was reconstructed and turned into a youth hostel and internation meeting center for young people.
The green area at the Leubnach and the castle.
I like that closeup. Even though it doesn't show at all the time and effort that was necessary to make it look that naturally ...
Back to the junction of the two main roads. The FAR in combination with the fields made made me some headache but I guess eventually it turned out halfway acceptable ...
The four farms grew like this as I was developing the map step by step. And as you may see I am not aware of a Pedriana unless it is not too often... 
Lover's corner - Liebesecke is the name of the small green area just below the river junction. Easy to reach by car by the road (grass becomes wet and cold due to dew which isn't very romantic even for young persons's hot love ... ) but sight protected by lots of bushes and old trees it is the perfect place to watch either sunset or sunrise with the one you love!
It took a long time untill I found a solution for that power line (which I wanted to have there!) as I didn't wanted to place a (SAM-) street there and lots woulf have disturbed the wires. So i planted lots of RRP grass there.
A closeup. Under power line you usually don't find trees but bushes and grass, a great for the small maple tree of Simfox.
In such village industry is usually situated at the edge of the village, and sometimes they have one or two additional flagstops.
Now with this 13th piucture my update is finished ...
- wait - did you just say 13th picture?
- yes, why? Are you superstitious?
- Who? Me? Never! But 13 is such an ... ugly number, you know ...
- so what?
- why don't you just add another screenie? 14 is so much nicer as a number as 13 ...
- Okaaaaay ...
As a last picture an update of the flagstop.
Hope you like what you saw in this special month even though I couldn't do as much as I intend.
Enjoy
Bernhard 
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