Today‘s plan was visiting the Plassenburg, then go to Bayreuth to see Schloss Eremitage, afterwards to Bad Berneck and then up the hill to Bischofsgrün, where the spring of the Weisser Main is.
In Kulmbach I walked up to the Plassenburg. It is an impressive bastion with thick walls and multiple wall rings. The inner yard is splendid. I bought a combined museum ticket and visited all four museums situated in the castle, which were about army, archeology, paleontology, entomology, history, genealogy, witches/vampires/etc., pewter figures and some more topics. In other words about almost everything 🙂 . I finished the museum visit at 12:30, walked down the hill to my bike and started into direction of Bayreuth.
The path went up and down and up and down and so on. At 15:00 I was in Bayreuth and walked through the Hofgarten and then drove to the Schloss Eremitage. Unfortunately I could see the interiors, where Wilhelmine von Preussen often lived. But the park and especially Neues Schloss Eremitage was very beautiful. I also logged my first geocache of Germany there. Somehow I always forgot to geocache when I was in Germany.
At 16:20 I continued to Bad Berneck. There were several signed bike routes going to Bischofsgrün. Some looked a bit too mountain bike like. And since I‘m from Bern, I somehow wanted to go to Bad Berneck, just because of the name. Again it was up and down. Almost all the time I felt like going three steps up and two steps down.
Just before Bad Berneck it started to rain a bit, but luckily only short. The way from Bad Berneck to Bischofsgrün was very nice following the meanwhile very small Weisser Main. I almost had a 15km/h average although it went up 300m within 12km. Before 19:00 and before darkness I reached Bischofsgrün and my hotel. In total I made over 1000m in height.
Tomorrow I will take the cable car up to the hill Ochsenkopf (I assume the people here say “mountain“), hike down to the spring of the Weisser Main and then bike to Czech Republic.
From Bad Berneck it was again the signed EuroVelo route 4, that I will follow as far as I will be able to before 16th October. The route would go through Krakow, but since I‘m doing less kilometers than I should per day, I will probably have to take the train near the end. But the main/Main goal was the Mainradweg, which I finished now.
