Sept 2019   Cheryl Hempe and family from Buer, Hamburg St Pauli and Saxony-Anhalts Coal Mines  .   5 days, 3 people  4 hotel nights

A tour that had portions in which Cherly and Brad Hempe from California traveled on their own and days with joint activities. We met at Hamburg airport for one day to trace the Jänicke chapter of Cheryls family, met again three days later in Buer and Melle near Osnabrück for the Hempe chapter and finally traveled together again in Lutherstadt Wittenberg to complete the Jänicke excursions in Saxony Anhalt. Whereas the Hempes were traditional farmers, Gottfried Jänicke's course of live was much more turbulent. He came from a miner's district around Möhlau, worked as nailsmith and junkdealer on rags and old iron in Hamburg's redlight district St. Pauli, later relocated to a better neighborhood in Hamburg Blankenese and finally made his way to America where the Hempes and Jänickes came together. A tour through unusual historic and todays social habitats, blended with famous sites at Lutherstadt Wittenberg, the Wörlitz gardens and parks, industrial sites or the Bauhaus traditions at Dessau.