Wednesday, June 20th 2007

• Arrival
• Pick-up-service from Nuremberg Airport or Bamberg / Lichtenfels train station to Steinwiesen
• Aparthotel Frankenwald ***, Steinwiesen http://www.aparthotel.de/
• Dinner

Thursday, June 21st

• 09:00 Opening of the 3rd MIR-meeting at the “Festung Rosenberg” http://www.festung-kronach.de/
• Welcome by Mr. Oswald Marr, Chief of the Kronach County http://www.landkreis-kronach.de/
• and Mr. Manfred Raum, Mayor of the City of Kronach http://www.kronach.de/index2.html
• 10:00 Introduction to the situation of the Kronach Region by Mr. Willi Fehn, Regional Manager
• 11:30 Lunch at “Alte Torwache” (historical restaurant built into the city wall of Old Kronach)
• 12:30 Transfer to Lauenstein, visit of the famous chocolate-factory “Confiserie Burg Lauenstein” http://www.lauensteiner.de/englisch/frameset.php
• 15:00 Meeting with the regional development initiative “ARGE Rennsteig”
• 17:30 Sightseeing tour on the “Frankenwaldhochstrasse” http://www.frankenwald-tourismus.de/freizeit/tour_strassen_frankenwaldhochstrasse.html
• 19:30 Dinner at “Bauernhannla” (typical upper-franconian restaurant http://www.bauernhannla.de/unserhaus.html)

Friday, June 22nd

• 09:00 Meeting with the regional development initiative “Kronach Creativ” http://www.kronachcreativ.de/
• 12:00 Lunch at the “Alte Steinmühle” (part of the cooperative Raiffeisen-Volksbank in Kronach)
• 13:00 Short visit to the building of the regional adult education center “Volkshochschule” (vhs) https://www.vhs-kronach.de/organisation_und_beratung/
• 14:00 Guided tour through the old city of Kronach and the Kronach Castle
• (steering group meets at vhs again from 16:00 to prepare the 1st-year report)

  see  http://www.dorfwiki.org/wiki.cgi?MIR/internal/YearOneDocuments/YearOneReport

• 19:30 Dinner at the “Festungs-Gaststätte” (restaurant on top of the walls of the Kronach castle)

Saturday, June 23rd

• 09:00 Meeting at the Aparthotel with the regional development initiative “LebensQualität? durch Nähe im Oberen Rodachtal” ** http://www.oberes-rodachtal.de/start.html
• 11:30 Lunch at the hotel
• 13.30 Take off to the raft ride at the Rodach River
• http://www.wallenfels.de/tourismus/floesserei_bilder.html
• 19:00 Dinner at the rustic hiking-cottage “Herrgottswinkel” (“god’s corner”)
• http://www.udo-schmittnagel.de/html/herrgottswinkel.html
• farewell – party

Sunday, June 24th

• Departure
• Transfer to the airport / train station