When you drive up to Marburg (central Hessen), and get about 12 km north of the town....you find yourself in a highly rural region.
You will pass village after village which consists of no-name gas stations, a local grill-imbis, and zero traffic lights....with maybe forty houses in the whole town.
Occasionally, you will pass a village which had a bank or a grocery store, and it's closed down now.
In some of the valleys, if you were looking for 'bars' on your cellphone....there's nothing.
Some of the rural villages will have a tractor-supply shop....maybe a bakery....perhaps a few will have a soccer field, or a gasthaus/pub.
Civilization? By that, I mean a grocery-store? It might be 20 to 30 km's down the road.
Looking for a kino (theater) or bowling alley? You might be driving 1.5 hours to reach one.
A lot of people imagine Hessen as a urbanized 'zone', but if you go 40 to 60 km's north of Frankfurt.....it's fairly rural.
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