Entry 13: Weinbach, Buchberg
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It's been quite a while (RL keeps me busy these days), and since I still can't think of any specific answer, I'd like to say thank you to those who have visited this CJ so far, especially @Lazarou Monkey Terror @mitsos @monkeywater @TheMurderousCricket for their nice comments and @rsc204 for the link to Neko's brooks, this is highly appreciated.
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In this update, where I couldn't think of anything special, we are going to continue our journey through Maxiland to the east of Storchenfeld, into the city tile of Sebastianskirch. Sebastianskirch is a town of about 50,000 inhabitants, but actually, it isn't part of this update yet, instead, I focused on developing two small villages on the same city tile, Weinbach and Buchberg. As we can see, Sebastianskirch is located in very hilly terrain on a peninsula:
But I've always liked this, since it gives me quite a bit of challenge, and it looks more interesting than doing anything in completely flat land. Make note of the location of Buchberg - it is quite close to Sebastianskirch, but the difficult and steep terrain made it necessary to build a road from Weinbach to Buchberg instead of over the mountains.
This peninsula fortunately has quite fertile soil, and so it is no miracle that extensive farmland is being found there, mostly grain and potatoes in the lower elevations, wine a bit uphill, and fruit tree plantations further uphill. We'll explore these locations today, and so we start in the village of Weinbach, a small and not really all that significant village in the center of the lowlands farmland:
A small picture of the farmland to the north (at the bottom of this picture and many subsequent pictures) of Weinbach:
And here, the federal route 6 branches off the federal route 2 and climbs its way into the mountains to Buchberg, passing extensive wineyards and fruit tree plantations there. First, a picture of the wineyards:
The road also passes two briges, one being seen here, close to a small spring:
And we continue uphill, to a second bridge and a second spring. Three pictures, one a bit of an overview, another a close-up of the spring, and a third one a close-up of the bridge:
The fruit trees are in full bloom now that it is spring:
And we arrive at the third bridge, at the outskirts of Buchberg:
And this is Buchberg itself. Again, in earlier times, a lot of farmers have been living here; these days, it is mostly the home of people who want to escape the cities' noise.
Buchberg has a lot of hiking paths, one of them connecting it to Sebastianskirch, and other ones to the mountains, which are quite popular goals for hiking tours. Here, a picture of a location I quite liked much:
Buchberg also has a small power plant, damming up the water and forming a small lake at a location where two brooks are merging. Two pictures, from different angles:
And that's it, already. We conclude today's update with an overview of the entire area, in fact, I mostly designed this whole area to look well in overviews (warning: WIP):
Next update: As you can see, there's still a lot to do. You might expect the next update to deal with the city on this hilly area at the bottom of the picture (I've already laid out the roads and streets there), from the bay, the small cliff, or the mountain valley at the top right of the picture. Hope you liked this update, nevertheless.
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