Birkenhof Rundweg 1 - through old cultural landscape with geological witnesses

1: 00 pm
4,01 km
69 m
69 m
351 m
412 m
61 m
Start: Birkenhof hiking car park, (Dainrode, Frankenau)
Destination: Birkenhof hiking car park (Dainrode, Frankenau)

Route 1 runs past the Hunold quarry to the Stiedenbach, which flows into the Treisbach at the Lengelmühle and is called Lengelbach from there.

Route 1 runs largely parallel to the 2nd route of the Birkenhof hiking car park, but shortens the tour behind the Bingeberg. From both routes you can see the Hunold quarry, which is not open to the public and has been used to extract greywacke for road construction and the construction industry since the First World War. The rock is traversed by numerous fissured calcite, dolomite and anchorite dikes, some of which contain sulphides, and fossil plant remains occur frequently on the layered surfaces of the slate. You then take Route 1 directly to the Stiedenbach, which flows into the Treisbach at the Lengelmühle and is called the Lengelbach from there. Stiedenbach and Lengelbach once powered seven mills up to the mouth of the Eder and supplied them with water.

Path surfaces

gravel

Way

Best Season

suitable

depending on the weather

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Tour features

Accessibility
Flatly

Equipment

You are well equipped with sturdy shoes, rain protection, food and a map.

Arrival & Parking

Frankenau and its districts can be easily reached via the following roads:

A 44 (exit no. 64, Diemelstadt)
A 49 (exit no. 15, Wabern)
and the federal highways B 252 and B 253

Birkenhof hiking car park.

The hiking parking spaces in the Kellerwald-Edersee Nature Park are generally free of charge.

Nearest bus stop/s: Frankenau-Dainrode

Line/s: 520, 520.1, 520.2, AST584.5

All connections including AST-Taxi connections can be found on the NVV timetable information www.nvv.de/fahrplanauskunft or found out via the NVV mobile app.

More information / links

The marking of this circular route is still pending.

author

Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

Organization

Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

Website

safety instructions

The circular hiking trail leads, among other things, through forests and open terrain. There may occasionally be trees and branches on the path.
Use of the hiking trail is at your own risk. You should not attempt this hiking trail in strong winds, heavy rain or snowfall.
Your cell phone may not have reception everywhere.

Map

Kellerwald-Edersee cycling and hiking map, 5th edition (1:33.000)

Publisher: Kartografie Kommunale Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

ISBN 978-3-86973-189-6

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