Bamberg October Part 2

After the first weekend of October, fall arrived with colder and cloudier weather. On Saturday October 10 I joined a nature hike sponsored by the VHS to the nearby Staffelberg hill and environs in the area known as the Frankish Alps. Unfortunately it was so rainy and foggy that nothing of the view from Staffelberg was to be seen.

The cross on the top of Staffelberg, with the less than dramatic view

On Sunday afternoon I went to the Day of the Open Door tour at the Bamberg sewage treatment plant.

A performance by the Bamberg garbage collectors

On the next Saturday October 17 I joined another VHS nature hike to Ebelsbach and Zeil, stopping at the ruined castle of Schmachtenberg along the way. Unfortunately the weather once again was cloudy and rainy. Curiously one small village that we hiked through had planted a ginko tree as their village monument. On the hill overlooking Zeil is a pilgrimage church with the inevitable processional way of the stations of the cross.

The ginko tree monument

The ruins of Schmachtenberg Zeil and its pilgrimage church on the top of the hill

That Sunday and the following weekend the weather was once again cloudy and cold, so I stayed in Bamberg and got some work done.

By the end of October the fall trees were in full color, but there was rarely any sunshine.