Numerous rest areas along the route invite you to take a break, and because we started the tour with a tasty treat, we'll also finish it with one and reward ourselves with a piece of delicious "Schmandkuchen" cake, another local speciality. With the Draisine throught the tunnel, ©Iris Blank Fotografie, HVE Eichsfeld Touristik e.V. We strike up a conversation and learn that there is a museum dedicated to the former border close by that is also a memorial, the Border Museum Schifflersgrund. Of course, the experiences of the people who live in the Eichsfeld district are still shaped by the border that divided Germany for so many years. The Kanonenbahn cycle route would lead us all the way into Hesse. Interesting, we hear different language and dialects. The cyclists are pedalling furiously next to us, and we overtake them easily. It's a little bit like a roller coaster and a ghost train ride rolled into one. ![]() We travel through five tunnels along the disused Leinefelde-Treysa railway line with the Draisine. The wind ruffles our hair the landscape seems limitless. ![]() ![]() Hang on a minute! Draisine? We should have a go on one! Roller coaster meets ghost train ride So we get on our bikes, and cycle past the source of the Unstrut river and the Unstrut viaduct, the Küllstedt tunnel, the tufa waterfall, the Draisine station and the cycle route church. On 32 inspiring kilometres, the Kanonenbahn ("cannon run") cycle route crosses the Thuringian districts of Eichsfeld and Unstrut-Hainich, and then continues on to the Werra-Meißner district in Hesse. In the southern part of the Eichsfeld district – often referred to as "the Tuscany of the North" – there's a cycle route that runs straight through this impressive scenery. View of Geismar, near the former inner-German border in the Eichsfeld, ©MERIAN, Peter Hirth
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