Pressgang: Schoningen

My objective is the Palaon museum, I have stayed the night at Helmsted which is a bus ride away from Schoningen .Without a hand held device to identify accomadation a lot of walking is involved , after some difficulty I found the Golden Stern hotel at 48 Gropern Strasse..This was upmarket hotel with a room on the second floor with a outlook over the courtyard and an extensive breakfast for E70.

t When added to my very inexpensive dinner it was reasonable.
After booking in I wandered 50 meters up the street and found a place to eat and drink on the corner
of Hausmannsturm.It had a frontage of only 4 meters but inside was a beer pump and a proprieter eager to make me a schlazick for a small number of Euros .
Next day I had to walk to the bus station and catch a bus to Schoningen,where I had time to photograph the town square before taking the bus to the museum.

Schoningen is a small town of 10,000 population in northern Germany with a quaint square above, a massive elm forest, and an open pit coal mine which employed most of the residents,but has been scaling down for years. Until workers unearthed eight prehistoric spears, leading the town to build a museum to house these artifacts.
The recently opened Palaon museum beside the coal mine,in a field of wildflowers,displays how Stone Age man lived with a few simple stone implements .Archaeologists found rich organic material .For the first researchers have known what sort of plants would have been in the area .