Eco path archeology Naumburg - Eco Pfad Archäologie Naumburg

Signpost of the eco path
Signpost extra tour H8
Signposts for the eco path and the Habichtswaldsteig in Naumburg

The Eco path archeology Naumburg connects that HessianNaumburg with the Weidelsburg at Ippinghausen and is almost completely with the Extra tour H8 "In the valley of two castles" of Habichtswaldsteiges identical. It is intended to encourage people to deal with the history of Naumburg and its immediate surroundings and to save them from being forgotten. The eco path Archeology Naumburg is also attractive in terms of landscape, as you always have beautiful views into the Wolfhager Land has, for example from Burghain, the Panoramaweg or the Weidelsburg.

Route profile

The Eco Path Archeology Naumburg
View from Burgberg to Naumburg
Sights on the eco path
At the desert of Immenhausen
  • Length: 18 km. Alternatively, the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg can also be hiked on a smaller, eight-kilometer-long circuit that includes the detour to Weidelsburg omits.
  • Mark: The eco path Archeology Naumburg is marked with the silhouette of mountains and valleys, which represent the striking castle mountains of Weidelsburg and Naumburg Castle, as well as the Elbe valley.
  • Signposting: The signposting of the hiking trail can be described as very good. The continuous marking of the extra tour H8 is supported by signposts of the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg.
  • Suitable footwear: Due to the high number of unpaved and natural paths, you should use sturdy shoes.
  • Family suitability: No, the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg is not accessible with smaller children due to the steeper climbs.
  • Mountain bike suitability: Yes, but some sections should only be ridden by experienced mountain bikers.
  • Best season: The eco path Archeology Naumburg is accessible all year round.

background

Out and about on the eco path (1)
Meadow path on the Immenhausen desert

The eco paths in North Hesse should encourage you to deal with the varied and interesting history of the region. A total of 32 eco paths have been set up in the Kassel district and two in the Schwalm-Eder district.

Since August 2012, the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg has strengthened the extensive network of Eco Paths. In the meantime, the 18-kilometer eco path has been taken from HWGHV Awarded as a "certified hiking trail" and the 15 km long extra tour H8 "In the valley of two castles" as a premium trail with the German hiking seal.

getting there

Out and about on the eco path (2)
Small way of the cross north of the Weidelshof

By car

Out and about on the eco path (3)
Narrow footpath on the northwest slope of the Weidelsberg

The town Naumburg is across the country roads L 3214 (Calden-Zierenberg-Wolfhagen-Fritzlar) and L 3215 (kassel-Schauenburg-Waldeck), while Ippinghausen continues at the B251 (kassel-Korbach-Brilon) lies. The next motorway junctions are the Symbol: AS 67 Zierenberg the A44 (kassel-Dortmund) and the Symbol: AS 14 Fritzlar the A49 (kassel-Schwalmstadt). Starting points are the 1 Wanderparkplatz Burghain and the 2 Weidelsburg hiking car park.

With public transport

Naumburg Madonna in the Church of St. Crescentius

While the 3 bus stopbus stopIn front of the gate / In the grove (Lines 53, 55, 142, 144, 152, 154 and 585.3) in Naumburg directly on the eco path Archeology Naumburg, or the extra tour H8 "In the valley of two castles" is the 4 bus stopbus stopcenter and Raiffeisen (Line 110) in Ippinghausen about one kilometer from the two hiking routes.

Route description

The Catholic parish church of St. Crescentius
The Weidelshof in the Elbe Valley
Natural monument Bildstein (also Bielstein)
Brederich water step

The eco path Archeology Naumburg is marked in both directions, the circular route is described below in an anti-clockwise direction. For a detailed hiking map, please simply click on the POIs that will immediately direct you to the described position. The start of the eco path is at the Burghain hiking car park on Landesstraße 3215 between Naumburg and networks.

From the Burghain hiking car park, the starting point of the Naumburg Archeology Eco Path, first follow the markings of the Habichtswaldsteiges across a clearing and further on unpaved forest paths to the castle stables of the former Naumburg castle.

  • 1 History of Naumburg Castle - The Naumburg Castle was probably built by Count Poppo I, son of Count Robert von Alstadt Weidelsburg, built in the years before 1170. A few decades later, the village was also created Naumburg, which was first mentioned in a document in 1207. In 1265, a descendant of the founders of Naumburg Castle tried in vain to sell it and the city of Naumburg to the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I. A year later the Archbishop of Mainz acquired half of the property and was able to further expand his sphere of influence in Niederhessen. After the Hertingshausen family the bailiffs at the castles Naumburg and Weidelsburg In 1412, the von Dalwigk family also settled in the castle through marriage. Finally, Naumburg Castle lost its importance in 1626 due to fire and destruction in the Thirty Years' War and was only used as a quarry for the city.

Further following the unpaved forest path you reach a small rest area with a beautiful view over Naumburgon which the information board for the second station of the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg is located.

  • 2 Appearance of Naumburg Castle - There are only a few descriptions and illustrations of Naumburg Castle dating from around 1600. An engraving by Wilhelm Dilich from 1605 shows that there was a round donjon on the south side of the mountain plateau at about the level of the water reservoir built in 1929. Next stood the palace or palas on the eastern edge and the forecourt, a tower-like structure with four oriels at the northern end of the plateau. According to an inventory from 1579, the rooms were furnished with oak tables, iron stoves and brass chandeliers.

A gravelled footpath leads to Burgstrasse (Landesstrasse 3215) at the entrance to the village Naumburg and follow it past beautiful half-timbered houses downhill to St. Crescentius Church.

  • 3 City parish church of St. Crescentius - The city population Naumburgs was with the foundation of Naumburg by the archbishopric Mainz almost without exception Catholic. While the religious community initially belonged to the Immenhausen Church from 1170, it was given an independent parish in 1249. The current church dates from the late 17th century and was rebuilt from parts of the previous church, which was almost completely destroyed by a city fire on July 9, 1684. Therefore only parts of the choir, the south wall of the nave and the lower part of the tower date from the beginning of the 14th century. The Catholic parish church was probably consecrated to St. Mary before 1692, but has been consecrated to St. Crescentius since 1692. The "Naumburg Madonna", created around 1340, points to this fact.

After going around the St. Crescentius Church, cross the market square and follow Burgstrasse (Landesstrasse 3215) downhill through the old town. After you have passed Untere Straße (Landesstraße 3214) you walk down a paved footpath down into the Elbe Valley to Mühlenweg. At this point, the detour to the Immenhausen desert branches off, which is not part of the extra tour H8 “In the valley of two castles”. You now walk along the Elbe on the partially graveled Mühlenweg together with the Habichtswaldsteig into the Elbetal landscape park. Passing a larger pond you finally reach the gravel park paths Bumblebee workshopto which the Habichtswaldsteig and the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg separate again. Instead, follow a smaller road uphill to the Elbener path and hike on this in an easterly direction together with the Hessian long-distance cycle route R4, the Herkulesweg (X7) and the Volkmarser way (V) off Naumburg out. On Rader Straße you cross the Elbe again and then to the north of Fritzlarer Straße (Landesstraße 3214) you reach the Immenhausen desert via a meadow path along a field.

  • 4 Immenhausen desert - Approximately 1.4 kilometers southeast of the city center of Naumburg the village of Immenhausen, which has now disappeared, was located on a mill ditch derived from the Elbe. Immenhausen was in the 9th century and in the 12th / 13th. Century as the property of the Corvey Monastery mentioned in a document, finds show a settlement from 9/10. until the 15th century. The parish church of the village was still described as a "fine church" in 1588, but it had collapsed in 1612 and in 1826 it was still known as a ruin. The last remaining remnant of the Immenhausen desert is a still accessible cellar with barrel vaults.

Back in Naumburg Arrived at the junction of the detour to the Immenhausen desert, follow the Elbe down the Mühlenweg and reach the Evangelical Church, where you pass Bahnhofstrasse (Landesstrasse 3215) Landhotel Weinrich crossed diagonally and turn into the street Am kleine Berg. Shortly afterwards, the Eco Path Archeology Naumburg branches off into a footpath, crosses the Elbe and Ippinghäuser Straße (Landesstraße 3214) and turns into a gravel road. This goes at the exit of the village Naumburg into a meadow path over which you can now reach the chapel on the vineyard steadily uphill.

  • 5 Chapel on the vineyard - The first church on the vineyard was probably built between 1733 and 1739 and was first mentioned in a document in 1760. In a description from around 1830, a simple wooden building with a small prayer room is reported. However, the damage to the chapel was so great that it was no longer worth renovating and instead a new building was built between 1828 and 1830. This half-timbered building soon became so dilapidated that in 1911 the decision was made to build a stone building. The foundation stone of the third and still existing chapel, financed by private donations, was laid in 1921, two years later the neo-baroque church of St. Mary was consecrated. Today the vineyard chapel is used by the Catholic and Protestant parishes for church services, devotions and weddings.

From the Weingartenkapelle hike down an unpaved and asphalt farm road back down to Ippinghäuser Straße (Landesstraße 3214), cross it and follow the markings of the Eco path and the extra tour H8 to the Weidelshof. After crossing it, hike slightly uphill on a gravel farm road past the stations of a crossroads, then via a meadow path past a wooden cross without further detours into the small forest area Mühlenholz. In this it is worthwhile to branch off to the nearby natural monument Bildstein or Bielstein. Together with the Habichtswaldsteig and the Hessian long-distance cycle route R4 hike further on a gravel forest path, gently winding through the Elbe valley, before the Eco path and extra tour H8 cross the Elbe for the last time and run over a meadow path towards Ippinghausen. South of Ippinghausen, the two hiking trails then turn into a meadow path, which is a little steeper uphill over Weidelsburgstraße (Landesstraße 3241) to the fairy tale resting place Junge Riese and further up the Weidelsberg to the edge of the forest. Passing south-east of the hiking car park Weidelsburg you finally reach the gravel road up to the Weidelsburg, which you follow into the castle ruins. When the flag is hoisted on the keep, there is a small kiosk right in it Weidelsburg open (mostly on Sundays and public holidays).

  • 6 Weidelsburg - The Weidelsburg is the largest castle in North Hesse and is mainly preserved today in its last phase of construction from 1380 to 1420/1430. Already in the 7th / 8th The Weidelsberg was settled for the first time in the 19th century, a castle is mentioned in documents from the years between 1111 and 1121. Under Reinhard von Dalwigk the Weidelsburg expanded to a representative castle complex, but abandoned again in 1591 at the latest. The legend of "woman loyalty" allegedly reports the final expulsion of the von Dalwigk family. From the year 1600 the castle fell into disrepair before it was exposed from the 1930s and renovated and restored several times.

You leave them Weidelsburg Again over the gravel access road, but a few meters later turn into a smaller, partly steep footpath. You then follow this partly by serpentines to above a wooden refuge in an old quarry and continue on a wider unpaved forest path to the edge of the forest, from which you now hike across a meadow together with the Bonifatiusweg (X12) and the student path (X13) . Back in the forest, you soon come across a gravel forest path, which you follow in a southerly direction. Finally, the Eco path Archeology Naumburg and the extra tour H8 “In the valley of two castles” branch off to the east into a narrower footpath (parallel to an unpaved forest path), while the student path (X13) continues along the gravel path to Bosselplatz and on to Netze. At the next crossroads at the edge of the forest, the Bonifatiusweg (X12) finally branches off past the vineyard chapel Naumburg from. Always along the edge of the forest over the unpaved panorama path with a view of the Elbe valley and together with the Habichtswaldsteig you get that after a while Café Hasenacker, a popular destination in Wintersgrund west of Naumburg. After crossing the Rehmbach, you walk up and down a mountain ridge on a meadow path and, via forest paths and paths, you reach the access road to the Wintersgrund recreation home (Haus Sankt Martin), which is also used by the Ederseeweg (E) runs. Eco paths and extra tour H8 now lead northeast of the Sankt Martin house through the Wintersgrund and over a gravel farm road to the Brederich water treading area, behind which there is another steep climb along the edge of the forest. Once at the top, you look back at the for the last time Weidelsburgin order to then hike a little winding down on unpaved forest paths into another ground. From there it is not far over a beaten path up a meadow to the Burghain hiking car park, the starting point of the two hiking routes Eco Path Archeology Naumburg and the extra tour H8 “In the valley of two castles”.

trips

Naumburg boundary stone path

The boundary stone path Naumburg connects several historical boundary stones in the old forest over a length of 6.5 kilometers. These announce, each with its own peculiarities, of past times and show the changing course of the boundary between Mainz, Waldeck and Hesse. A flyer for the boundary stone path, which is marked with a black circle with a horizontal line on a yellow background, can be obtained from the tourist information office. The Grenzsteinpfad Naumburg is from Naumburg from over the L 3215 where the starting point of the historic hiking trail is located with a parking lot for hikers.

Eco path peace education Bad Emstal

The Eco path peace education Bad Emstal connects the southern districts of the municipality over a length of seven or ten kilometers Bad Emstal. Stations are the war cemetery Bad Emstal, the former synagogue and Jewish community of Riede, the UNRRA / IRO cemetery / Korrigenden and the state hospital Merxhausen during National Socialism. The Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal is from Naumburg off with the bus routes 55, 142, 144, 152 and 154 or via the state road L 3214 and the county road K 111 and K 112 to reach.

Eco path cultural history Wolfhagen

The Eco path cultural history Wolfhagen runs for a length of 8 km northwest of the oldest city in the district of Kassel, Wolfhagen, via Schützeberg and Ofenberg (with observation tower). Stations are the Judenbad, the Langel desert, the moated castle Elmarshausen, the church of St. Peter on the Schützeberg, the Schützeberger Hof paper mill, the colonies and the memorial for those who remained. The Eco path Kulturgeschichte Wolfhagen can be reached from Naumburg and Ippinghausen from across the state road L 3215 or with the bus lines 110, 142 and 144 to bus stopbus stoprailway station (Last stop).

Eco path Hasungen Monastery

The Eco path Hasungen Monastery runs over the Burghasunger Berg over a length of only 2.8 km. Stops are the Hasungen Monastery Museum, the Alte Hof, the quarry and Hundsborn, the mountain stage and donkey path, the Heimerad on the Hasunger Berg, the Hasungen Monastery and the Evangelical Church of Burghasungen. The Hasungen Monastery Eco path can be reached via the federal road B251 and the state road L 3215 or with the bus lines 110, 142 and 144 to bus stopbus stopBurghasungen.

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