Geological circuit Medebach-Düdinghausen

The trail with two steep ascents and descents, each 200 - 600 m long, is marked throughout with the cephalopod logo and equipped with information boards at 7 locations.It starts at the signpost tree at the church square in the village center and leads - first together with the Sauerland-Höhenflug and the Medebacher Bergweg - directly past the starting board for the historical village tour next to the church downhill to the village hiking board, then heading NE along the pedestrian path next to the L 854 to the cemetery. There you cross the L 854, then a brook and follow the steeply ascending historical cross path from 1859 to the Kreuzberg summit (535 m NN) with chapel, information boards and fantastic panoramic view.After leaving the forest, turn right and take a steep grassy descent towards the south. Then you meet the Vitsenböhl quarry, go back 100 m and, turning left, follow a valley path on the edge of the Kreuzberg slope towards the north. After crossing the outward section next to station 2, you cross the embankment of the L 854, cross it and are immediately at the Borghagen Quarry (Geotope of the Year 2005).Continue north along the valley edge trail, which eventually turns into a path, and you will come across a tarred path, which you follow steeply uphill in a northerly direction. Shortly before reaching the heights, take a sharp right (direction SW) and make a detour to the Gerkes Quarry, 100 m away.You march the 100 m back again and then continue to the nearby Wede parking lot. Here you turn left - now also on the Uplandsteig quality hiking trail - (heading north) and follow a grassy side path along the L 854 for 100 m. Then the hike heads west, first along the edge of the forest, then off to the left into the Buchenwald. After 200 m you will recognize a rivulet on the right of the path. This represents geologically a fault where two geological eras meet, the Carboniferous (our previous environment) and the Devonian. Shortly after, we come across the church quarry. Afterwards, the trail continues for about 1 km through different types of forest, occasionally interrupted by wide views, to Spitzbubenbusch, a medieval trading post on the Kurkölnisch-Waldeck border. Shortly thereafter, the Uplandsteig quality hiking trail turns sharply to the right towards the north, but you remain on the straight-ahead path for another 50 m and then turn left for the 400 m long descent via the medieval Meggers Holt-Hohlweg. At the exit of the path, a beautiful view opens up to Oberschledorn and to the left in the distance to Goldhausen on the Korbach Eisenberg.After another 200 m long steep descent along the edge of the forest, you then turn sharply left (north) at the sign tree, follow a slope path with a beautiful southern view and then reach the pedal basin (cozy resting place with a view of Goldhausen). Shortly after reaching the narrow tarred path, turn right onto a sloping meadow path surrounded by hedges. In the Buchenwald you cross the Riepenbach gorge and then come back to the village.