Finding out the location	hard
Access	very easy
Safety	safe
Risk of being seen	very high
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	few
Good place for taking pictures?	good
Did you see other people?	many

Visit date    July 28 2021 at 15 hr
Visit duration    3 hours

Technically, this place isn´t anything special, but the fact that this was the first spot I ever explored as an urbexer makes it special to me. It´s a pretty small basalt mine in the middle of a forrest in western Germany. There isn´t that much left of the old structures of the mine, but the scenery is very beautiful and during my visit I discovered three lakes in the surrounding area close by. On the other hand, there isn´t that much vandalism in what´s left and the condition of the place didn´t change at all when I re-visited it a few months later.
Mind when you visit this place, you will be seen by other people since the surrounding hike tracks are quiet popular with the locals, but this shouldn´t be a problem since usually nobody cares. The area itself is very easy to access so there are quiet a few people walking around there when the weather is nice.
Set finding out the exact location to "hard" because this place isn´t popular in the scene and since it´s so small, you pretty much only find it when you live nearby or already know where it is.

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