Cochemer Bahn

Wehrgang in Merkendorf

Kibri B-8472 (Basis Set B-8480) | February 2025 | A gift from my dealer

2025-2.1 ~ Preview

For sharing one of my pictures of the KM1 Württemberg C to be put on his company car, my dealer gave me this Kibri Kit as a down payment.

It brought me back to the days that I made these kit as a youth while running trains on my dad's layout. You can see them in the background.

Around 1990

The set B-8480 contains 4 separate boxes, known as B-8470 to B-8476:

26.2.2025

The models from my youth found a new spot in the Old Town of my layout-to-be: the Cochemer Bahn.

1992

7.3.2003

Finally, these buildings were upgraded several times in the good old fashioned ways (see Chapter 1.1)... but yet not to today's CB-standards!

17.11.2018

12.4.2019

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2025-2.2 ~ Wehrgang | History of the original Wehrgang in Merkendorf

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2025-2.3 ~ The model | Opus 2.0

Originally this Wehrgang was added to Cochem Town in the 1990's, derived from my father's layout.

5.3.2025

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2025-2.4 ~ Painting

It's always a treat to put your pen on a blank sheet of paper and write the first words of a beautiful story.

For this tower I was pretty reluctant how it would look. It took mt several weeks to finish it, and still...

14.3.2025

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Some thirteen days later...

27.3.2025

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2025-2.5 ~ Constructing

(28.3.2025)

As I look at these sections of wall, I realise that the Cochemer Bahn

- following the example of Rothenburg ob der Tauber and other towns in Germany -

has quite a lot of walls.

28.3.2025

30.3.2025

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2025-2.6 ~ Finsihing up things

(9.5.2025)

9.5.2025

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Last update: 10.9.2025