- promising
- geological highlights
- Insider tip
- Round trip
- Refreshment stop
- cultural / historical
Rothaarsteig theme trail - piles, ramparts, deserts
Do you actually know field terraces, trace bundles or pile plates and would you recognize them?
Tour starting point:
Marketplace Brilon
Tour destination point:
Marketplace Brilon
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www.tourismus-brilon-olsberg.deCategory
ThemenwegLength
18.6 kmTime
5:20 Std.Elevation ascent
352 mElevation descent
345 mAltitude (Minimum)
427 mAltitude (Maximum)
617 mCondition
Difficulty
Adventure
Landscape
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Do you actually know field terraces, trace bundles or pile plates and would you recognize them?Along the Rothaarsteig you can still discover many such traces, which are also called historical cultural landscape elements. They tell us about the way earlier generations dealt with nature and landscape and give insight into former social conditions and technologies. Together with the natural structures of the landscape, they contribute significantly to the special character and uniqueness of a landscape and provide habitats for many endangered animals and plants. We invite you to a journey in the footsteps of our ancestors from long ago. The churchyard is located in the middle of a former medieval ring fortification, which has a triangular basic shape. One of the three castle gates has been reconstructed. The oldest earthen ramparts most likely date back to the time around the birth of Christ, when Germanic tribes defended themselves against the Celts advancing from the north. Excavations on the Borberg also uncovered the foundation wall of a 13th/14th century church. Today, at the highest point of the site is the Borberg Chapel, built in 1925 in honor of Mary, Queen of Peace.
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Directions
Route: - Marktplatz (459 m) - Ammertenbühl (473 m) - Poppenberg (580 m) - Petersborn (540 m) - Hiebammenhütte (513 m) - Borberg's Kirchhof (606 m) - St. Antonius (615 m) - Schustersknapp (595 m) - Petersborn (540 m) Sights: Altstadt Brilon, Borberg's KirchhofRefreshment stops: Hiebammenhütte, gastronomy in Brilon
Safty guidelines
No special notes
Public transiot
By train to Brilon-Stadt stop, then 400 m walk to Brilon marketplace.By bus to the Brilon-Markt stop.
Getting there
from the west:A1 to Dortmund/Unna junction - then A44 to Werl junction - thenA445/A46 to Bestwig-Velmede junction and continue on B7 to Brilonfrom the north:Hannover - A2 to Bielefeld junction - A33 to Wünnenberg-Haaren junctionand continue on B480 to Brilon from the east: A44 Kassel to freeway junction Wünnenberg-Haaren and continue on the B480 to Brilon or exit at junction Marsberg and continue on the B7 to Brilon from the south:to Kassel and continue on the A44 to freeway junction Wünnenberg-Haaren or exit at junction Marsberg and continue on the B7 to Brilon
Parking
Metered parking is available directly around the Brilon marketplace. Otherwise free parking at the Kreishaus/Polizei.