Eco path for the cultural history of the Großenritte - Eco Pfad Kulturgeschichte Großenritte

Signpost and logo of the eco path, cultural history, Großenritte

The Eco path for the cultural history of the Großenritte leads around the Baunataler Grossenritte district, which has a long history of settlement with a wide range of topics. It is intended to encourage people to deal with the cultural history of the district and to save it from being forgotten. The landscape of the Grossenritte Cultural History Eco Trail is also attractive, as one always has beautiful views of the Baunatal and of Großenritte.

Route profile

The Great Ride Cultural History Eco Path
The first two information boards
  • Length: 5.7 km. You can easily take a detour over the Grosseritte cultural history eco path Kassel-Steig connect up to the castle hill, from which one has a beautiful view over the whole Baunatal Has.
  • Mark: The eco path of cultural history in Großenritte is marked with the throwing of the Hünsteines, which is shown schematically. A giant wanted to use this from Hirzstein to destroy the church tower of Kirchbauna.
  • Signposting: The signposting of the hiking trail can be described as good, the hiking sign can be found as stickers on trees and street lamps.
  • Suitable footwear: No special hiking shoes are required, as the eco path runs continuously over paved and mostly asphalted paths.
  • Family suitability: Yes, the Grosseritt cultural history eco path is also accessible with smaller children.
  • Mountain bike suitability: Yes, the hiking route can even be used with normal bicycles without any problems.
  • Best season: The Grosseritte Cultural History eco path is accessible all year round.

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Sights on the eco path
The legendary Hünstein von Großenritte on the Hünsteinplatz

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.

In June 2014, the eco path Kulturgeschichte Großenritte joined the extensive network of Eco paths North Hesse added. The hiking route was meanwhile from HWGHV awarded as "Approved Walk".

getting there

Out and about on the eco path
Out and about on the "Opfertriesch" road

By car

Burgberg (Baunatal)
View from Burgberg over Baunatal towards Lohfelden

The easiest way to get to Großenritte is by car, either from the motorway junction Symbol: AS 68 kassel-Bad Wilhelmshöhe the A44 (kassel-Dortmund) via the state roads L 3215, L 3218 and L 3219 or from the motorway junction Symbol: AS 8 Baunatal-North of the A49 (kassel-Schwalmstadt) via the state roads L 3311 and L 3219 moves. At the Baunatal-Großenritte train station, the starting point of the eco path, you will find a larger one 1 Parking spot.

With public transport

The castle hill west of Großenritte

The Grossenritt cultural history eco path can also be easily reached by public transport from the Großenritte train station. At the 2 bus stopbus stoprailway station, which is only a few meters away from the entry board of the Eco path, stop next to the two tram lines 5 and 7 also the bus routes 54, 61, 65, 66, 68.

Route description

There are also remains of a ring wall on the castle hill
The ring wall was settled twice and has an area of ​​about 2.5 hectares

The Grosseritte Cultural History eco path 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 is at the train station Baunatal-Gross rides on Landesstrasse 3219 (Bahnhofstrasse) between Parkstadion and Großenritte town center.

  • 3 Grossenritte station - Today as a tram terminus and train station of the Hessencourrieres The Grossenritte station acted together with the Kleinbahn kassel-Naumburg opened over a length of 33 kilometers of kassel above Baunatal, Schauenburg and Bad Emstal to Naumburg runs. Although there was initially great resistance to the construction of the railway line among the conservative rural population, in retrospect it was a blessing for the residents of the Wolfhager Landes. Due to the increasing individual traffic, however, was also on the small train kassel-Naumburg passenger traffic ceased in 1977, but has been back from the museum railway since 1992 Hessencourrier drive on. The station building of the Großenritte station is now a listed building and is privately owned.

First, following a piece of Bahnhofstraße in a southerly direction, shortly afterwards turn into Hünsteinstraße, on which you walk until it joins Georg-August-Zinn-Straße. A little later you have arrived at Hünsteinplatz, on which the Hünstein was set up by Großenritte. A little to the north is the same name bus stopbus stopChicken stone (Lines 5 and 7).

  • The 1 Chicken stone von Großenritte, also called Riesenstein, was first mentioned in a document in 1474 and, after being moved several times, has stood on Hünsteinplatz since 1991. It is about 2.75 meters high, weighs about four tons and was probably first erected by farmers of the Neolithic Wartberg culture (3,500–2,800 BC). According to a legend, however, the Hünstein has a giant from close by Hirzstein Thrown onto the church tower of Kirchbauna, but the stone slipped out of his hand and landed in Grossenritte. Even today, the giant's fingerprints can be made out on the hip stone. After a farmer had buried the stone in 1911 or 1912, it was rediscovered and rebuilt by the home keeper August Boley in 1932.

From Hünsteinplatz you hike on the street Opfertriesch in a southerly direction to Kasseler Straße, where you turn right. Past the bus stopbus stopGroßenritte cemetery (Line 68) you can reach the Kreuzkirche via Kasseler Straße, where the eco path leads directly over the churchyard. On the north side of the church is the bus stopbus stopchurch (Lines 54, 61, 65, 68.

  • 2 Kreuzkirche - A pastor was mentioned in Grossenritte as early as 1331, long before today's Kreuzkirche, which was converted into a late Gothic church in 1512. In front of the roughly 500-year-old church there was probably a previous building, but nothing is known about it. The cruciform church was significantly changed in 1705 by the addition of a choir, which replaced the medieval choir and doubled the length of the nave. The stucco-decorated ceiling, which has been preserved to this day, also dates from 1705, while the baroque wall paintings in the interior are probably from the period before 1600. The interior was also fundamentally redesigned in 1959.

Cross the Unter den Linden street (Landesstraße 3219), as well as a larger parking lot in the center of Großenritte and pass the half-timbered houses on Kampstraße and reach Elgershäuser Straße (Kreisstraße 22). Now further west on Prinzenstrasse in the direction of Langenberge to the street Am Mühlengraben, on which the bus stopbus stopPrinzenstrasse (Line 61) is located. The Grossenritte Cultural History eco path continues south along the Langenbergkampfbahn to the Grossenritte culture hall bus stopbus stopCulture hall (Line 61).

  • 3 Langenbergkampfbahn - After the old great knight sports field was converted into farmland in 1941, the district administrator of Pappenheim decided to build a new sports field just three months after the end of the war. In elaborate manual labor, community workers and volunteers built the Langenbergkampfbahn between November 1946 and June 1949. Due to the unfavorable hillside location with a height difference of 9.30 meters, 16,000 m³ of soil had to be moved. After completion, the sports of soccer, handball, athletics and cycling were played on the Langenbergkampfbahn; every year at Whitsun, GSV Eintracht Baunatal organized a nationally known sports festival in which up to 400 athletes took part and which delighted around 2000 spectators.

Shortly after the Langenbergkampfbahn, you leave Großenritte for the first time and walk slightly uphill on the street Am Sportplatz towards the Langenberge. If you look back you have a beautiful view of the great rides and into the Baunatal into it.

  • 4 Castle hill and quarry - The 439.6 meter high castle hill west of Großenritte is an extinct volcano on which there is a prehistoric hilltop settlement that was inhabited at times. On the western edge of the 200 x 120 m summit plateau there is an artificially raised wall, on the other sides steep slopes offered protection. The oldest finds from the castle hill come from the early Neolithic Michelsberg culture (4,200-3,500 BC), others from the Iron Age (approx. 750 BC). For a detour to the castle hill, see the section Let's continue.
In 1904 the company Kilian & Weidemeyer started out Hamelin the basalt mining on Burgberg, which started in 1906 by the Hermann Wegener company Hanover was continued. While the miners initially extracted the basalt by hand, they later worked with explosives. The mined basalt was then transported to the Großenritte train station via a service railway and onto the small train kassel-Naumburg reloaded. In 1972 the quarry was almost exhausted, so that the operation was finally closed for economic reasons.

From the Burgberg and Steinbruch station, you hike on an asphalt farm road in a northerly direction past weeping willows to the Gertrudenstift nursing home on Prinzenstrasse.

  • 5 Gertrudenstift - As early as 1877 there was a nursing home at the current location of the Gertrudenstift, when Wilhelm Vilmar, together with the parish vicar Ludwig Thamer and the teacher Konrad Stern, set up the hunting lodge of the Prince of Hanau at Großenritte, which at that time was still under construction. The founder was Gertrude Fürstin von Hanau, widow of the last elector and current namesake. After several conversions in the meantime, among other things the hunting lodge had to be demolished in 1972 because of dilapidation, a nursing home for the elderly was built in 1995 according to the most modern nursing science findings, in which there is a specialized facility for old people and people in need of care.

From the geriatric nursing home Gertrudenstift it is only a few meters uphill on Prinzenstraße past the bus stopbus stopGertrudenstift (Line 61) to the Pfaff oak, which is located on the edge of the forest of the Langenberge.

  • 6 Heiligenborn and Pfaffeiche - The water of the Heiligenborn should be particularly tasty and have a healing effect. From 1883, members of the Gertrudenstift fenced the area around the spring and set up benches; Pastor Konrad Stern even bottled the water to bring it to the market kassel for sale. The Heiligenborn continued to develop into a popular excursion destination, but fell into disrepair over time until Mayor Konrad Gück had it restored in 1932. Today the source of the Heiligenborn has been captured and nothing remains of the former destination.
The Pfaffeiche or Pfaff oak is reminiscent of Karl Franz Pfaff (1857–1941), the first forester of a 485 hectare forest area on the Langenberg, which has been privately owned by those interested in the forest since 1879. The stately tree with its distinctive treetop was planted in 1931 on the 50th anniversary of Karl Franz Pfaff's service and in thanks for his services at the edge of the forest above the Gertrudenstift.

After crossing an asphalt turning area, hike on the street Vor der Burg with a beautiful view over Großenritte and towards Elgershausen to Trineweg, into which you turn right and follow through a new development area back to Großenritte. Past the bus stopbus stopBayernstrasse (in Chattenstrasse) and Trineweg (Line 61) can be reached together with the Hessencourrierradweg Elgershäuser Strasse, which you cross diagonally over a pedestrian island and over Schauenburger Strasse along the railway line kassel-Naumburg finally after about six kilometers back to the train station Baunatal-Great rides achieved.

trips

Burgberg (Baunatal)

If you want to extend your hike on the Grosseritt cultural history eco path, a detour to the castle hill with a viewpoint west of Grossenritte is recommended. From the station Castle hill and quarry follow the hiking trail Kassel-Steig (KS) over paved forest roads past the Bärwinkelteich uphill to a ridge, from which a small path leads up to the castle hill and on to the lookout point. Alternatively, you can also go from the station Heiligenborn and Pfaffeiche Hike over an unmarked gravel forest path up to the ridge and continue on the forest path just described. However, this can be overgrown in late summer, but is usually still reasonably easy to walk on. Then you follow that back Kassel-Steig and the hiking route Δ past the Pöppler-Linde with water treading point and information boards of the Habichtswald Nature Park to the "Wanderparkplatz Am Trine-Eck" and over the Trineweg to Grossenritte, where you meet again on the eco path Kulturgeschichte Grossenritte.

Eco path cultural history Hertingshausen and Kirchbauna

The Eco path cultural history Hertingshausen and Kirchbauna connects the two places and their history over a length of about seven km. Stops are the bakery, the fortified church of Kirchbauna, the Besser Teichwiesen, the Junkermeierhof and St. Barbara chapel, the Evangelical Elisabeth Church, the Wilhelmsdamm and the former inns. Can be reached Eco path cultural history Hertingshausen and Kirchbauna from Großenritte on the county road K 22 or with the Bus route 65 to bus stopbus stopFrankfurter Strasse.

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. He is from Großenritte Eco path archeology Altenburg and Falkenstein with the Bus route 54 or via the state road L 3219 to reach. From Niedenstein follow the local signs to the Altenburg hiking car park.

Eco path cultural history Habichtswald

The Eco path cultural history Habichtswald runs over a length of 16.5 km, or three sections of 5.1 km, 6.7 km or 9.7 km through the municipality Habichtswald. Stations are the Dorfschmiede Ehlen, the Ev. Church and Steinscheuer Ehlen, the village community center Ehlen, the waiting room, Gut Bodenhausen, the Bodenhäuser mills, the Ev. Dörnberg church, the basalt mining at the Silbersee and the natural monument Kaiserbuche. The eco path cultural history Habichtswald can be reached from Großenritte via the state roads L 3218, L 3215 and L 3220. The best way to travel with public transport is to take the bus lines 51 and 22 with a change at the bus stopbus stopDruseltal to bus stopbus stopBasically between Ehlen and Dörnberg.

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