A wheatfield in Reinsdorf, with the iPhone. The closest village is Vielau, but the larger area is Reinsdorf, and the sign saying “Vielau” is further in. This is in the Erzgebirge region of Saxony; the closest city, Zwickau, is about 20 minutes away. This was taken from the road over to Lutherhöhe—Luther Heights, a religious retreat.
The road is really half tractor path and half road, meaning the ruts are deep enough for the grass to brush your car’s undercarriage but you clear the rocks. There’s no shoulder; to take a picture you just stop and get out. If a car should come along, both cars pull halfway onto the grass or gravel on their side; there’s usually just enough room to squeeze by. If there isn’t, there’ll be a space whittled out in front of or behind you, so you pay attention to those as you pass them, in case you need to back up.
A wind turbine, one of three or four, over toward Friedrichsgrün, peeks over the rise on the left. They don’t do much as all the wind is up north, the locals tell us, and all I can report is that all the times we saw them in two weeks they were stone still or once or twice barely budging. Google Maps and most signs spell it Friedrichsgrün but but I’ve also seen it as Fridrichsgrün; in the dialect they just call it da Grük so there are some who wouldn’t be bothered by either spelling.
You can’t see it well but there’s a folding chair just under the tree to the left, next to the trunk. The only way to it is by an even sketchier tractor road, or you could walk it; I wouldn’t want to try a rental car on that one. I love that folding chair.