Quality tour: Krenkeltal and Goldener Zapfen - ridge walk between the Rhine and Weser rivers

Tour starting point:

Hiking parking lot "Stauweiher Heinsberg"; Kirchhundem-Heinsberg

Tour destination point:

Hiking parking lot "Stauweiher Heinsberg"; Kirchhundem-Heinsberg

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Rhine-Weser watershed

In the municipality of Kirchhundem the Rhine-Weser-Watershed runs not only over the "Rhein-Weser-Turm" (lookout tower, managed) but also over the Dreiherrnstein (673 m) as well as over the Riemen (678 m; approx. 500 m southwest of the Dreiherrnstein) located in the adjacent Siegerland. While the water of the Krenkelsbach or Heinsberger Bach, which originates on the northern flank of the Riemen, flows through the Hundem, Lenne and Ruhr into the Rhine , the water of the Zinse flows through the Röspe into the Eder and that of the Elberndorfer Bach directly into the Eder and then through the Fulda to the Weser.

Dreiherrnstein

At the Dreiherrnstein the dominions of the Duchy of Westfalen, Nassau-Siegen and Wittgenstein-Hohenstein came together. The large triangular stone on the Wildborn is marked with a wolf's tang on the Nassau side, a large W on the Wittgenstein side and a cross on the Electorate of Cologne side. In 1817 Prussia formed the districts of Olpe, Siegen and Wittgenstein. Thus the old territorial borders were only county borders in the newly founded province of Westfalen. Today the former "Dreiländereck" is a border point between the districts of Olpe and Siegen-Wittgen-stein. For centuries, fierce and sometimes even deadly border battles raged along this territorial border with destruction and theft of wood, tools and livestock. Until today, this old border is not only marked by the Rothaar ridge, but also by the meeting of Saxon and Franconian cultural and confessional influences. (Source: Adventure Guide Rothaarsteig; Ed.: Rothaarsteigverein e.V.)

"Border stories up close" (audio stories for download at www.lennestadt-kirchhundem.de) tell curiosities and interesting facts about the "Dreiherrnstein".

Rothaarsteig Experience Station "Aqueduct

In the Krenkeltal not far from the starting point of the quality tour "Krenkeltal & Goldener Zapfen" a construction, which is almost unique for Germany, has kept its Sleeping Beauty sleep until the summer of 2003. With this construction, an "aqueduct", a brook is led since the beginning of the 20th Jhrd. over the artificial terrain cut for a railroad line, which was deconstructed in the meantime.

Since the summer of 2003, visitors to the station, which was set up by the Rothaarsteig Association together with the Regional Forestry Office of the Kukölnisches Sauerland, can learn about the eventful history from the beginning of construction to the present day in a book. At the same time, one has the opportunity to view and enjoy the building and the nature in its surroundings at length. As a true work of art, at the end of the aqueduct stands a scale model of the terrain, cast in copper, in which the functioning of an "aqueduct" becomes clear.