Eco path peace education Bad Emstal - Eco Pfad Friedenspädagogik Bad Emstal

Logo and signpost of the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal

The Eco path peace education Bad Emstal connects the southern districts of the municipality Bad Emstal and should encourage you to deal with the history of the places Sand, Merxhausen and Riede and to save them from being forgotten. The landscape of the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal is also very attractive, as wooded sections alternate with open sections, from which you can always enjoy beautiful views Habichtswald Nature Park Has.

Route profile

The Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal
The starting point of the eco path is the parking lot of the Merxhausen monastery
  • Length: 10 km, or 7 km with a shortcut. The Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal can be easily combined with a visit to the Merxhausen Monastery.
  • Mark: The Eco Path Peace Education is marked with a white dove of peace on a red background.
  • Signposting: The signposting of the hiking trail can be described as very good, the hiking sign can be found on trees and wooden pegs. In addition, signposts with kilometers were set up.
  • Suitable footwear: Since the hiking route runs over a mixture of paved and unpaved paths, sturdy footwear is recommended depending on the weather.
  • Family suitability: Yes, the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal is also accessible with smaller children.
  • Mountain bike suitability: Yes, in large parts the trail can even be used with a normal touring bike without any problems.
  • Best season: The Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal is accessible all year round.

background

Out and about on the eco path (1)
(Merxhausen circuit 7 km)
After visiting the war cemetery, walk east of Wichdorfer Straße through the forest

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 October 2013 the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal has been strengthening the extensive network of Eco Paths. It was solemnly inaugurated in the monastery church Merxhausen and from HWGHV awarded as a "certified hiking trail".

getting there

Out and about on the eco path (2)
On gravel forest roads uphill through the forest to the Riede sports field

By car

West of Merxhausen, the starting point of the Eco path, runs the B450 (Bad Arolsen-Wolfhagen-Fritzlar). The next motorway junctions are the Symbol: AS 67 Zierenberg the A44 (kassel-Dortmund) or the Symbol: AS 14 Fritzlar the A49 (kassel-to water). At the starting point of the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal there is a large one 1 Car park at Merxhausen Monastery.

With public transport

The 2 Clinic bus stopbus stopbus stopclinic is only a few meters south of the starting point of the eco path Peace Education Bad Emstal. It can be reached by bus 53 (kassel-Bad Emstal-Naumburg), 142 (Bad Emstal-Naumburg-Wolfhagen), 144 (Bad Emstal-Naumburg-Wolfhagen), 152 (Schauenburg-Bad Emstal-Naumburg) and 154 (Fritzlar-Bad Emstal-Naumburg).

Route description

Sights on the eco path
The war cemetery Bad Emstal in the forest with a view of the Emstal
View from the Elbenberger Straße sports field to Riede, a district of Bad Emstal
Philip the Magnanimous, relief at Merxhausen Monastery
The Merxhausen monastery church

The Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal is marked in both directions, the circular route is described below in 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 Peace Education Bad Emstal is at the parking lot of the Merxhausen Monastery Monastery museum, from which you first walk over a paved footpath to Wichdorfer Straße (Landesstraße 3220). You then follow this on the sidewalk before crossing it shortly before sand and entering the forest on a gravel forest path. At a larger forest crossing, follow the signs to the war cemetery and hike on another gravel path together with the hiking route ▯ and the als E 12 marked Kuppenweg up the mountain to the

  • 1 Bad Emstal war cemetery, which was inaugurated in 1958 and the final resting place of 242 people who died as a result of tyranny or war Europe is. In addition to the task of remembering, the war cemetery also had a political function, as it was supposed to be the representative for the graves of the deceased and fallen in the communist Eastern Bloc states, which was not accessible to members living in the west due to the inner-German border. The inscription below the cross on the war cemetery also refers to this task:

"Rising cross greets our dead all over the world -
points to the graves in the east, urges us to peace. "

From the war cemetery Bad Emstal, which dated Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V. is maintained, you hike downhill back to the forest crossing and now follow the gravel forest path, which is also known as ▯ and E 7 Merxhäuser Weg is marked, through the forest almost parallel to Wichdorfer Straße (Landesstraße 3220). This is finally over a small path in the amount of bus stopbus stopKirchstrasse (Lines 144 and 154) reached. Diagonally opposite, follow the "Am Weinkauf" road steeply downhill into the Emstal, before walking along the asphalt mill road to the leisure facility at the edge of the forest. You now follow the course of the Emstal on an unpaved forest path downstream, before crossing the Ems itself over the Kurfürstenbrücke, which was probably built in 1756 (HNA article). The bridge, which apparently once served Elector Wilhelm II as a connection between Riede and Merxhausen, was built in 2002 by students of the University of Kassel refurbished. At the opposite edge of the forest, the short cut of the eco path branches off on shorter paths back to Merxhausen. Together with the section described up to this point, it forms what is known as the seven kilometer length Merxhausen circuit.
If you continue to follow the ten-kilometer main route, you hike slightly uphill on a gravel farm road to the edge of the forest, which you then walk along a meadow path to the Elbenberger Straße sports field SV Riede, where you come across the hiking route ▯, which goes over the Weißenthalsmühle with campsite runs (see map). With a beautiful view of Riede you now walk to the federal highway 450, cross it carefully and reach the street "Im Mittelfeld" via another meadow path. Via Elbenberger Straße you finally reach the entrance to Riede and shortly afterwards the station
  • 2 Former synagogue and Jewish community in Riedenear which, until a few years ago, the synagogue of the Jewish community in Riede stood, to which more than 30 people belonged at times. The synagogue in Riede was used until 1910, before the spiritual care of the Jews was transferred to the Jewish community in Naumburg passed over. Since then, the synagogue, an extension of the house at Elbenberger Strasse 3, which was clad with wood from the outside, looked like a shed and has since been demolished, has been used as a storage room. If you want to end your hike on the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal in Riede, you will find the station south of the Former Synagogue and Jewish Community Riede die bus stopbus stopRaiffeisenbank (Lines 142, 144 and 154). If you want to continue your hike, follow Elbenberger Straße back out of town to the paved road "Im Mittelfeld", on which you now walk in a north-westerly direction. After a while, turn right into a gravel farm road and walk down into the Stellbachtal, which has to be crossed once. The Stellbach itself is crossed over a small wooden bridge. At the level of the power line, turn right again and hike with a view of Niedenstein to federal highway 450, after carefully crossing it, you get back on the seven kilometer long Merxhausen circuit meets.
From the federal highway 450 you walk downhill to Merxhausen and along the bus stopbus stopCalibration mill (Lines 144 and 154) past. Shortly before reaching the town center, however, follow the marking of the eco path Friedenspädagogik Bad Emstal to the UNRRA / IRO cemetery and on to the small church with the penultimate station called
  • The 3 UNRRA / IRO cemetery / Corrective of the Eco Path for Peace Education in Bad Emstal was redesigned in 2011 and is the resting place of 63 Displaced Persons (DPs) who died inhumanely in the Merxhausen State Medical Center between 1946 and 1949. DPs were people who were interned in concentration, labor or prison camps or who had fled persecution. In Germany After the end of the Second World War there were at least seven million homeless foreigners who were cared for by the international aid organization United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). The second topic of the third station is the so-called correctors. Vagrants, beggars, peddlers and women convicted of prostitution were designated as correctors, and under National Socialism they were also criminalized as "anti-social pests of the people". Correctors from the concentration camp in Guxhagen-Breitau used as a gardener, forest worker or unskilled worker. From the small church you walk down the access road to the UNRRA / IRO cemetery to Landgraf-Philipp-Straße, where you turn right and continue downhill at the bus stopbus stopclinic (Lines 53, 142, 144, 152 and 154) over to the fourth and last station
  • 4 Landesheilanstalt Merxhausen under National Socialism follows. Mentally ill people have been cared for in Merxhausen since the 16th century. This was also the case in the Third Reich, but the patients were now systematically killed under the code name "T 4". In 1940, for example, there were around 75 nurses for every 1,200 patients in the Merxhausen state hospital. A total of at least 5,000 children were recorded in the Third Reich and killed in the children's departments of hospitals by drugs or malnutrition. The "T 4" campaign ended at least officially in August 1941 due to popular protests. Around 70,000 patients had already died by this time. The state hospital Merxhausen in National Socialism further reminds of the fate of Luise N., who was one of 494 patients from the state hospital Merxhausen, the victim of the "Action T 4". From Merxhausen Monastery you only have to go around the monastery museum once more and after ten or seven kilometers you will reach the starting point of the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal, the parking lot in front of the monastery museum.

trips

View from the observation tower on the Klauskopf to the Ederniederung

Klaus head

If you want to extend your hike on the Eco Path Peace Education Bad Emstal, you should make a detour to Klaus head advised with the observation tower west of Riede. From the station Former synagogue and Jewish community in Riede Follow the hiking trails ▯ and Δ past the Riede hiking car park over gravel forest paths uphill to the "Straw Temple" refuge. From this refuge you hike the remaining 800 meters on a gravel path up to the 414 meter high Klauskopf with its observation tower. The entire route from the center of Riede up to the observation tower on the Klauskopf is just 1.5 kilometers. More information in the Wikivoyage article Klaus head.

Eco path archeology Altenburg and Falkenstein

The Eco path archeology Altenburg and Falkenstein is five kilometers long and mostly runs together with the Habichtswaldsteig or other local hiking trails over the Altenburg up to the Falkenstein castle ruins. A total of 8 information boards provide information about the respective archaeological finds. Of Bad Emstal and Merxhausen, the eco path Archeology Altenburg cannot be reached by public transport, as it is already in a different district, although there are only a few kilometers as the crow flies between the two eco paths. The best way to drive by car is on the country roads L 3220 and L 3219 to Niedenstein and then follow the local signs to the Altenburg hiking car park.

Eco path cultural history Kirchberg

The Eco Path Cultural History Kirchberg deals with some of the more than 400 field names around Kirchberg that once served the population for everyday orientation. It is divided into the circular hiking trails A Weißenthalsmühle (7 km) and B Wartberg and village (4 km) which both start in Kirchberg and are eleven kilometers long. With public transport the Eco path is cultural history Kirchberg from Bad Emstal and Merxhausen cannot be reached, but easily accessible by car via the B450 and K 82.

Eco path archeology Naumburg

The Eco path archeology Naumburg is identical in the course of the route to the 18 km long extra tour H8 of the Habichtswaldsteig "In the valley of two castles", but you can also if you have the Weidelsburg omits to walk the smaller circular route, which is only eight kilometers long. The eco path Archeology Naumburg can be reached via the district roads K 112, K 111 and the state road L 3214 or with the bus lines 142, 144, 152 and 154 to bus stopbus stopIn front of the gate (formerly cemetery) in Naumburg (Hesse); If you run the big round you can alternatively also in Wolfhagen-Start Ippinghausen.

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