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Memmert is one of the Eastfrisian Islands which developed from an sand dune just high enough to stay dry at normal high tides. It is a protected area for birds, "inhabited" only by a ranger.
Kachelotplate is not much more than a sand dune next to Memmert.
Memmert and Kachelotplate are covered by the default scenery in a rather poor way. Especially trees are distributed all over the place. In this scenery
 - trees are removed from the islands and a strange round feature further west (which I tried to hide as good as possible).
 - some trees are added near the house of the ranger.
 
The scenery is compatible with the "East Frisian Island" scenery version 1.3.0 of Stairport.
 

Spiekeroog is one of the Eastfrisian Islands separating the open North Sea from the Wadden Sea towards the Eastfrisian mainland.
 
This add-on performs several corrections to the distribution of vegetation of the default scenery. The senery is compatible with the "East Frisian Island" scenery version 1.4 of Stairport.
This new version is just a re-compilation of the previous version and does not contains any new features. Re-compilation is performed to ensure future compatibility.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.

By Christian Grimsel
 

Set on a large natural mound, Launceston Castle dominates the surrounding landscape. Begun soon after the Norman Conquest, todays remains consist of a 13th-century round tower built by Richard, Earl of Cornwall, inside an earlier circular shell-keep. It is a very windy place and probably not too pleasant to stay at at that time.
 
The default scenery places a round multi-story building at the site of the castle. The add-on replaces it with the tower and the shell-keep and adds the remains of two gate houses. This new version does not add any further buildings or remains but updates the way, materials, textures and terra forming rectangles are treated. The tower is now illuminated at night.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.

By Christian Grimsel
 

Pevensey is the place, where William the Conqueror landed in Britain in 1066. He found the remaints of a roman castle, besieged and burned in 491 by the Anglo-Saxons and re-fortified by Harold Godwinson in 1042. When he landed, he found the castle undefended, as its garrison had moved northward to fight Norwegians who had invaded England there. In the coming centuries, the castle was repeatedly under attack.
 
The scenery replaces the default scenery and adds the castle walls and the remains of the towers. This new version does not add new buildings, but uses rectangles and polygons to improve the blending of the add-on into the default scenery. It also updates the way, materials and textures are treated.
 
For further information please read the README.TXT file contained in the archive. In this README.TXT I forgot to mention that you need to delete an existing previous version of this scenery from the community directory before you copy the new version to the community directory.
 
By Christian Grimsel

This scenery add-on adds the three sewage gas towers of the Kassel sewage treatment plant. The egg-shape towers of a height of about 42 m collect gas for the production of electricity and are well visible from the air.
 
Version history
V1.0.0 Initial version
V1.1.0 Corrected version
V2.0.0 Adds 6 clearing tanks and a chimney, removes a non-existing building
 
Please read the README.TXT contained in the archive file for further information.
 
By Christian Grimsel.
 

Juist is one of the eastfrisian islands separating the open North Sea from the Wadden Sea towards the eastfrisian mainland.
Juist is an island formed by dunes, about 17 km long, but less than a kilometer wide. It can be reached from Norddeich by a tide dependent ferry or by plane. In fact, Juist airfield is one of the busiest in Lower Saxony.
Juist is covered by the default scenery in a rather simple way. But two commercial add-on packages cover the island:
- the "East Frisian Island" scenery of Stairport/Aerosoft, which greatly improves the airfields and adds some buildings.
- the "Landmarks of Germany - Niedersachsen & Bremen" package of FSDG, which adds the lighthouse.
My scenery add-on tries to provide compatibility with both of these packages.
In detail:
 - trees are removed from the south side of the island and around the airfield (Stairport scenery) but added around lake Hammer
 - the default "Domaene Bill" and "Domaene Loog" buildings are replaced by more realistic 3D models with night lighting
 - the round houses on the tanks of the sewage plant as well as a multi-storey building near the east end of the main village are removed. A glass house standing on the site is added.
 - landing stages, ships and boats are added to the harbour; the sight-seeing tower at the harbour entrance is added. It does not exist in the default scenery and exists only as a very generic model in the Stairport add-on. Now in both cases my tower is displayed.
 - the non-operational Juist lighthouse is added (non-operational means, that it is not allowed to shine towards the sea, its lamp has to shine land-ward - 6 sec on, 6 sec off).
 - the "second" light house introduced by FSDG is removed.
 - the island church has been added to the main village.
 - some horses are placed onto the meadows
 - a white line visible east of the Juist village is removed as well as possible
 - corrections are applied to the dune promenade (non-existing houses removed, night lights added)
 - the water tower has been added
 - the former train shed has been added. In the previous century Juist did not have a harbour (which was built in the early 1980's only), but a pier with engine driven trains for the transportation of people and goods. The train shed (called the "Black Hut" or "Black Pad" - "Schwarze Bude") is a building which remained. The train shed was only necessary for the stairport version of my scenery (where the default building has been removed for whatever reason), but once created I also added it the the default version.
 
The senery comes in two versions, one for users of the the "East Frisian Island" scenery of Stairport, and one for users of the default / FSDG scenery. Only one can be used at a time.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file which can be found in the archive.
 

When you fly from or to St.Mary's (EGHE) on the Scilly Islands, UK, you may recognize two windsocks next to one another pointing in opposite directions. This little add-on removes one of the two.
 
For more information, please read the readme.txt file contained in the zip-archive

Rievaulx Abbey (North York Moors, UK), version 2.0.0 -- Add-on for MSFS 2020
 
Founded in 1132 by 12 Cistercian monks, the monastery grew rapidly. Around 1300 the monastery reached its peak size with 140 monks and maybe 500 lay brothers. But at the same time, the abbey had incurred debts - just like modern start-ups growing too fast. There were problems like an epidemic of sheep scab and attacks by the Scots. The monks were in severe financial problems. In the mid 14th century, the black death caused a great reduction in population and made it difficult to recruit new lay brothers for manual labour. At the end, the abbey had shrunk almost to the size it had, when it started - 14 monks, three lay brothers and the abbot.
 
This scenery replaces the buildings occupying the site of the abbey in the default scenery with more realistic abbey building remains. This second versions adds the refectory and dormatory remains.
 
For more information, please read the README.TXT file contained in the zip-archive

St.Martin's Church, Kassel (GER) for MSFS 2020 - version 1.0.0
 
The "Martinskirche" (St.Martin's church) is the main church of Kassel. Building started sometime in the 1340's. The progress was slow and parts of the church collapsed in 1440. The consecration finally took place in 1462. The southern tower was partially completed in 1487, but it was not before 1564/65, that the spire was finalized. Meanwhile the church had become a protestant church, when Landgrave Philipp converted to Protestantism in 1524.
Then it took more than another 300 years, until the northern tower was build (1889 to 1892).
In 1943, the church was heavily damaged when Kassel was attacked by allied bombers and burnt. The nave collapsed and the walls suffered from the heat of the fire. Rebuilding took place from 1954 to 1958 with a reconstruction of the old nave, but new and more modern towers. The church was re-consecrated in 1958.
Today it is the church of the bishop of the protestant church of Kurhessen-Waldeck.
 
This scenery fills the void place in the old town center of Kassel with a 3D model of the church.
 
To install: unzip the Martinskirche_V1.0.0.zip archive to a place of your choice. It will contain some documentation and another archive "scenery-ks-Martinskirche.zip"
Locate your community directory. Then drag the "scenery-ks-Martinskirche" directory of the second zip-file to your community directory.
The scenery is build using Blender 3.3.5 (see www.blender.org), the Asobo Blender exporter version 1.3.0 and the SDK version 0.21.0 of Microsoft/Asobo. Google Earth was used to estimate dimensions.
 
This scenery is freeware. If you use it, you do so fully at your own risk. The author disclaims all warranties, either expressed or implied.
The archive may be distributed freely, provided that all files and the documentation are left complete and unchanged and that no money is asked for it. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified without the prior written permission of the author is prohibited. So is the inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive or distribution without the prior written permission of the author.
 
Copyright 2023 by Christian Grimsel.

Krukenburg Castle is situated on a hill above the village of Helmarshausen, today part of Bad Karlshafen, in Northern Hessia (GER), north of Kassel-Calden airport. It is quite special in the way it was build. Central part of the castle is a church, built between 1107 and 1126. Its layout consists of four cross-shaped wings around a central rotunda, This design follows the layout of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The abbot of the Helmarshausen Monastry - Wino - had brought the necessary architecural plans from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem around 1030.
This scenery removes vegetation from the castle site and adds a model of the castle remains.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file contained in the zip-archive.

Founded in 1132 by 12 Cistercian monks, the monastery grew rapidly. Around 1300 the monastery reached its peak size with 140 monks and maybe 500 lay brothers. But at the same time, the abbey had incurred debts - just like modern start-ups growing too fast. There were problems like an epidemic of sheep scab and attacks by the Scots. The monks were in severe financial problems. In the mid 14th century, the black death caused a great reduction in population and made it difficult to recruit new lay brothers for manual labour. At the end, the abbey had shrunk almost to the size it had, when it started - 14 monks, three lay brothers and the abbot.
 
This scenery replaces the house occupying the site of the abbey church in the default scenery with a more realistic church model.
 
For more information, please read the README.TXT file contained in the zip-archive

The two tall buildings of the Kassel incineration plant are a well visible land mark in Kassel's East. They may not be 100% accurate, but show what is visible from the outside of the plant. The new version adds some smaller buildings and chimneys visible when approaching the plant from the south.
 
For more information please read the README.TXT file contained in the ZIP-archive.
 
The previous upload had an incomplete zip-archive. The readme.txt file was missing.

MSFS Scenery--Helmsley Castle (North Yorkshire, UK); Helmsley is a small market town situated at the southern edge of the North York Moors. The castle, on the west side of the town, was initially constructed in wood around 1120, was converted into a stone castle with works beginning only about 65 years later. In subsequent decades the castle was further extended, fortified and made more comfortable to live in. But is was until the times of the Civil war that it was besieged, taken and destroyed. Only the Mansion was spared.
In the following centuries the castle was owned by various people and left to decay. In the 18th century it became a pictoresque decoration of the Duncombe Park estate with its country house built nearby.
For more information please read the readme.txt file contained in the archive.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Three Chimneys At Baunatal VW Plant Germany. South of Kassel at Baunatal there is a Volkswagen manufacturing plant, where among other things they make gearboxes as well as components for their new electric vehicles. Next to Wolfsburg, it is the second largest VW plant in Germany. The plant has three chimneys of a height of about 100m which are missing in the Microsoft default scenery. In addition three buildings have been replaced by tanks. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS Scenery - Kassel office complex
The Wintershall Dea office building, the neighbouring H4-Hotel (a.k.a Town Hall Hotel) and the town hall itself (the Congress Palais) represent a prominent group of buildings in Kassel's West end. However, they are only poorly represented in the default scenery of the FS2020. This scenery add-on provides replacements for all of them.
The first north-south wings of the Wintershall Dea office were build in the mid-fifties of the previous century. Triggered by the ever growing needs for office space, the buildings were extended east-west in later decades. Today the office complex with its almost white surface is a prominent land mark in Kassel's west-end and a protected office building.
The H4-Hotel is a building of the 90s and was build together with a extensive refurbishment of the town hall interior. It is directly connected to the town hall.
The Town hall is the oldest building of the three, being built between 1911 and 1914 in a neo-classicistic style. With its modern extensions it is today a well accepted congress centre in the heart of Germany.
This add-on provides a quite realistic replacement of the office building, the H4-Hotel and the town hall. Working night textures and illuminations are provided in this version. From December 24 to December 27 a special Christmas night lighting is visible when approaching the offices from the West.

MSFS Norddeich (GER) airport modification The Airport of Norddeich is the main airport servicing the islands of Juist and Norderney (the "Inselflieger"). This add-on removes false trees and bushes from the northern end of the airport and adds some kilometre of north sea dikes visible from the runway. I had tried to model the dikes using terra-forming polygons. However the results were not satisfying and were not displayed properly when looking at them from a larger distance. So I modelled the dikes in Blender. By Christian Grimsel

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Warkworth Castle and Coquet Bridge MSFS 2020 Scenery--Warkworth Castle and Coquet Bridge, UK. Warkworth castle is situated in the village of Warkworth in a loop of the river Coquet in the county of Northumberland (England). The Date when the castle was founded, is uncertain. It probably started as a wooden castle on a motte and was extended and modified through the centuries by its various owners. The bridge crossing the river Coquet is a fine example of a multi-span bridge with a defensive gateway. It is of the 14th century and was used for vehicular traffic until the 1960th. It is still open for pedestrians. This scenery replaces the houses of the default scenery with a more realistic castle model and adds the missing fortified medieval bridge, with this new version adding stairs to the main tower. By Christian Grimsel

MSFS: (Almost) no trees on Inner Hebrides The Microsoft flight simulator places quite a number of trees on the Inner Hebrides. This add-on scenery removes most of them, except for those places, where there are hints that trees exist. This should be nearer to the real landscape you see when looking at photos or when flying over the Inner Hebrides at low altitudes. Current version includes the isles of Canna, Coll, Eigg, Muck, Rum and Tiree. By Christian Grimsel

MSFS: The catholic parish church in Vellmar: The church was build for the catholic parish "Heilig Geist" (Holy Spirit) in 1976/1977 after an older church at a different site had become too small. Different to many other and especially older churches, the church room has an almost square shape where the benches gather around the altar. The default scenery shows an empty place at the site of the church. This add-on adds a model and provides day and night textures, the latter showing the colourful windows. Photos of the windows taken with kind permission of the parish. By Christian Grimsel

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Beauly Priory, Scotland. At the western end of the Beauly Firth lies the little town of Beauly (French "beau lieu" meaning "beautiful place") with its 13th century Valliscaulian priory. This scenery replaces the default building with a more accurate representation of its remains. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Pevensey Castle, East Sussex, UK. This scenery adds the missing remains of Pevensey Castle (north-east of Eastbourne / East Sussex). Pevensey Bay was the place where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. At that time, William found the remains of a Roman fort re-fortified by Harold Godwinson in 1042, however without any defenders - a perfect place for the invading fleet. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Stonehenge - Vegetation Removal, UK. This little scenery removes non-existing trees from the Stonehenge site. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--Essigberg Telecom Tower, Germany, v2.0 Adds the Essigberg telecom tower near Calden airport (Kassel, Germany), which is missing in the default MSFS 2020 scenery. Uses and converts my earlier FSX model. Night lights provided. Updated antenna configuration. Scenery uses an exclusion rectangle to provide compatibility with other sceneries placing a tower at the same spot. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--East Frisian Island Of Langeoog, Germany. This add-on performs several corrections to the distribution of vegetation of the default scenery and adds a photo-realistic water tower. Current version 1.2.0 comes with an illuminated water tower. The scenery is compatible to the commercial East Frisian Island scenery version 1.2 of Stairport. By Christian Grimsel.

MSFS 2020 Scenery--East Frisian Island of Spiekeroog, Germany. This add-on performs several corrections to the distribution of vegetation of the default scenery. It is compatible to the commercial East Frisian Island scenery version 1.2 of Stairport. By Christian Grimsel.