Yesterday we had the first mopar-meeting in north germany. Great location: http://www.grauerort.com/galerie/ more photos: http://s157.photobucket.com/user/nitoh/library/2014-05-01 Moparmeeting Stade
Well that is really cool. I never really think about there being alot of traditional American cars in Germany. Did you have a good turn out? Thanks for sharing the photos.
nitoh, great to see you all out and about together. i bet a run like this attracts a lot of interest in Germany from Downunder
@MotoMike, yes it is great location for a visit! Its arround 30mls from Hambourg to this place near Stade. Arround 15 people spend there time for restauration after work and on weekends. It is alot of work. You can rent the hole place for $400-$700 per day! Here some Infos: "The fortress gray he place was built in the years 1869 to 1879 by the Prussians to the protection from enemy ships on the Elbe River near the village of Abbenfleth . You took advantage of the high old March near the waters of the River Elbe , in the time in which tensions with France increased quickly to have an effective protection of the port of Hamburg. The fortress was already operational in the german French war 1870/71. The fortress was never involved in combat operations." "High wall Fort grey er place is a type of Prussian fortification architecture of the second half of the 19th century. The Fort is nestled with its diamond-shaped hexagonal floor plan, 10 m high mound created by a, on the Elbe Dyke. The walls are kasemattiert to the Elbe. On the two flanks of 68 m 28 cm were each five modern Breechloading return guns of calibre. The Fort with a 3 m high Escarpe-or Carnot wall is secured to the Elbe, which can be defended by two throat gang bunkers out with guns and rifles. The remaining walls are by a 20 m wide moat protected. A bridge marks the entrance, leads through a hollow corridor into the Interior of the Fort, and is secured by a Gewehrcarponiere and watch bunker. The bridge was designed as a drawbridge, a storm defense grid secured the hollow speed." http://www.microsofttranslator.com/b...tung_Grauerort
I used to live in Stade, Bützfleth, some 20 years ago. Back then, I never heard of this museum, which was probably only a couple kilometers away. I didn't know the French bothered with that place, since at about that time it was under Swedish rule or maybe the Prussians just freed the region from the Swedes. What's also worth seeing are the swamps west of Bützfleth, along the Elbe, where the Wehrmacht had bunkers and they used to hide their stuff under all that foliage. However, I don't remember if they also hid submarines there. The area isn't marked with signs for the public. Probably, to avoid it becoming a political shrine
