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nice seating area between fields

Tomb and bench a little in the path coming from the forest

There is an old oak tree here. There used to be a bench under the oak. There are only the stones on which the bench rested. There is also no longer an unobstructed view - it has now grown over. But the oak is a pretty impressive tree. The path to the oak was also overgrown and has been cut free today.

As early as the 19th century, roofing slate was being mined on a large scale in Weisel. Shaft construction was carried out at the Kreuzberg mine. The Kreuzberg mine was the last slate mine on the Middle Rhine. It was closed at the end of November 1980. The headframe was put down and the shaft closed. Today the pit serves as a drinking water reservoir for the neighboring communities of Wollmigart and Ransel. A residential building and various farm buildings still exist on the site of the Kreuzberg mine. https://www.weiseler-geschichte.de/de/bilder-karten-video/sehenswuerdheiten/eckert-und-kreuzberg In November 2017 the novel "Menschenfischer" by Jan Seghers was published by Rowohlt-Verlag. A main setting in this novel is "a dark valley on the Rhine" and the Kreuzberg mine. If you have read the book and walk this way, you will recognize some of the places described in the novel.