Steinau

After Hanau, Heinrich continued up the Fairy Tale Road to a town named Steinau. This is the city that the Grimm family moved to when the brothers were young. As teenagers they grew up in this town. When Heinrich got to the town he found one of the very helpful items that many towns in Europe have – a map board that displays the layout of the town.

 

The town map displays many different pieces of information. There is a map of the larger local area that shows the countryside that surrounds the town.

There is a very accurate map the shows all of the streets with a small index to help find specific roads.

 

Along the edge is a section of advertisements of different shops and stores in the town. It helps you find the services available in the town.

On another board Heinrich found a map that showed the tourist spots in the village. It is more of a picture map with the streets and images of the different buildings in a picture that was very easy to understand.

Below the map was a description of each of the various sites shown on the map. It was a little tricky for Heinrich since the descriptions were all written in German, but he is getting better at understanding more German words.