Entry 20: Peninsula South Coast, Part 1
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@JulioC @justforfun Thank you both for your interest and your nice comments. Unfortunately, I'm anything but an expert if it comes to economy, so I can't tell if the land value of the area below the dam has increased, but, well, I guess so...
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In today's entry, and the next one, we are going to explore the south coast of the large peninsula to the east of Michaelshaven, and where Sebastianskirch is located, as shown on this part of the region map of Maxiland:
Owing to the rather hilly landscape, this coast is dotted with small and scattered villages where people mostly lived from fishing, sheep breeding, and a bit of farming for a long time; in modern times, tourism has started to expand there. There's no major city there, and the main traffic routes are bypassing this area, so it is somewhat calm and rustic in nature.
As usual, I'm starting with my historic babbling: In the 13th century AD, poor people from a neighboring country had to leave their country because of overpopulation, and started to migrate to Maxiland. Since they had developed good abilities in sheep breeding and fishing, as well as making hilly terrain hospitable, they were very welcome among the lords of the adjacent areas, and in exchange for exporting fish and sheep products, they have been granted various tax benefits and liberties which were highly appreciated in those feudal times where everyone was part of a strictly defined social hierarchy.
It wasn't easy to settle in such a difficult area; the hilly area made agriculture difficult, and for some reason (I actually can't think of any believable reason, to be honest...), soil quality and precipitation were quite low, so only coniferous trees and shrubbery were growing at this part of the peninsula. In order to improve their chances to survive, the people opted to develop, wherever possible, a special way to lay out villages: All villages had a small village centre, and most other houses were scattered over the landscape, with sometimes small additional hamlets next to the coast.
In this and the next entry, I'm going to show off basically the same style of village design, as well as the same old town buildings. The main reasons for splitting all pictures into two entries are to keep the entry size lower, and because I'm actually not even done yet with all the MMP work. We are starting with the leftmost and the rightmost areas, at the villages of Taubenhag and Krabbenfels, to be exact. Taubenhag is located on the same city tile as Michaelshaven (which finally allows me to complete another city tile), and Krabbenfels on the city tile Wohlspitz, which is actually the name of the peninsula at the south border of Maxiland, south of Krabbenfels. The city tile in between, Zirbenhang, will be part of the next entry, but it's already almost finished, except for the MMP-ing part.
But let's now get to the picture part. Here are some pictures of Taubenhag, the village next to Michaelshaven. The first picture shows off the upper parts of the village, the small street to the top left is connected to the upper parts of Oberried, which is part of Michaelshaven, and the road is the federal route B7, the only main route, which is winding its way through the landscape, providing at least a bit of a quicker connection to all the villages and the eastern tip of the large peninsula.
And the lower parts of the village. Here, we can see the tourists' beach, and the beach where some of the fishers are hanging out their fish to dry.
And three close-ups: the old village core, the fishing coast, and the coastal landscape, partly forest, partly meadow coated with feather grass and shrubbery.
And an overview, which also includes part of Michaelshaven:
We now jump to the far east end of the peninsula, to the village of Krabbenfels. Nothing special, everything has already been said, except for the fact that the space constraints there made life difficult for me. I hope it turned out OK for you, although one street quite literally runs almost a straight line through the entire village which makes it look odd.
The western end of Krabbenfels. The route B7 already turns to the north, large parts of the village are actually located at a dead end street:
This is a close-up of the old village core; I believe I already showed it off before, but I'd like to repeat it for your convenience:
These are the eastern parts of the village, with the fishing harbour, the beach, some restaurants, and a lot of summer residences of tourists frequently visiting this area.
A close-up of the fishing harbor. Quite a bold act by me - I'm living in a landlocked country, I do not have any clue at all if this is realistic or not.
A bit even further to the east, there are a few scattered farmhouses with pastures and a few farm fields.
A close-up of the cove with the lighthouse. I already shared this picture, but I still want to include it here:
And, to conclude this entry, an overview of Krabbenfels and its surroundings:
That's it for today's entry, I hope you liked it. As already pointed at before, the next entry will most likely deal with the parts between Krabbenfels and Taubenhag.
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