04-May-2024 --
On a four-day bicycle trip with Zittau as starting and ending point through Czech Republic and Poland, I was able to visit three confluence points.
The third one I visited is located around 3.3 km beeline northwest of the village Lipa. A small road coming from Lipa, leading along fields with plants covered with foil, changed into a unpaved road after the village Muchówek. This is also the beginning of forest. From now on it was a very rough way. After 1.5 km I reached another way, named "Dojazd pozarowy nr 6" which is may be the name of a hiking trail. From there I could already see the area of the confluence point 51N-16E. It is one of the best specified and described confluence points I ever visited. I found two big picnic benches, three large Information signs with roofs and a small pylon, made of stone, which marks the actual point. Unfortunately all the text on the Info signs is written in Polish, but the graphics were speaking its own language. On one sign also the Degree Confluence Project is mentioned. After taking the pictures for my visit I had a picnic at the site and continued my cycling journey direction west. Short before reaching the road about 1,9 km north of the CP, leading from Muchów to Stara Krasnica, I found a small Info sign: "GNOMON" E16°-N51° 1,8 km.
In comparison to the last visit you can see a big change of the area of this Confluence Point. It was the last of three confluence visits during this little cycling trip through Germany, Czech Republic and Poland.