Panoramaweg

THE Bischofsgrün Panoramaweg passes close to Hotel Kaiseralm, the venue for the chess.

As with the walk I took on Sunday, it is well-waymarked, and is a lot less challenging than the Weißmain Ochsenkopf Steig.

Waymarks are prominently displayed

Pretty stretches of water to admire

Plenty of places to stop to eat, or just rest

The route runs by a former sanatorium that was turned into a military hospital from 1914-20.

What remains of the entrance

Roughly translated, the stone reads: From 1914-20 the sanatorium was a military hospital. Of the soldiers who died there, 21 were buried in the grounds. The small cemetery was redesigned in 1954 and expanded as a soldiers' memorial by Paul Dürrbeck. Since then it has been a discreet place of pilgrimage to dead soldiers.

A search on the internet reveals that Dürrbeck was the chief physician of the sanatorium, and that in 1954 he had a bell-tower memorial erected for the dead of "the three great wars since 1870," ie the Franco-Prussian War, WW1 and WW2.

The panoramic views are nothing to get excited about, although this one does show, in the background, a transmitter on top of Ochsenkopf mountain

And on this walk there are other flowers apart from foxgloves

A hunter's hide