The Nieste-Werra-Weg is a 29 kilometer main hiking trail from kassel through the Kaufunger Forest to Hann. Münden-Hedemünden, which also runs past the Steinberg Friends of Nature House, which is currently closed. By shortening the hiking trail to Nienhagen, an attractive 14-kilometer hike between Nienhagen and Hedemünden is possible.
Route profile
- Length: 29 km. The Nieste-Werra-Weg can be easily divided into two medium-length hikes.
- Altitude meters: About 600 meters. Both starting points, the wood market in Kassel and the train station in Hedemünden, are approximately at the same height.
- Stages: 2 stages that can be started and finished in Uschlag or Nienhagen. Both places are about halfway along the Nieste-Werra-Weg and can be easily reached by public transport.
- Mark: The Nieste-Werra-Weg is marked with a white N, mostly on a black or dark background. The stickers also bear the words "Nieste-Werra-Weg" and "HWGHV".
- Signposting: Most of the signposting for the Nieste-Werra-Weg can be described as good. Only the old red signposts in the Kaufunger Wald, predecessors of the new gray ones, are faded and often difficult to read.
- Suitable footwear: In dry weather, the hiking trail, apart from a short section between Uschlag and Nienhagen, can be walked with normal shoes with a good profile.
- Family suitability: Yes, because you mostly hike on forest roads without steep gradients.
- Mountain bike suitability: Yes, even suitable for beginners and partly also for normal bikes.
- Best season: All year round, but preferably the Nieste-Werra-Weg should be hiked in dry weather.
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The Sneezes is a 21.8 km long tributary of the Fulda and rises a few meters east of the Steinbergseen im Kaufunger Forest. Fed by a total of eight brooks, the Nieste initially runs through the Gläsnertal to the municipality of the same name Sneezes, behind which she briefly from hessian ins Lower Saxony Area changes. From Uschlag, again in the Hessian area, the small stream continues to flow through the community Niestetal and flows east of Sandershausen into the Fulda.
The Werra is a 299.6 km long right main source river of the Weser and runs through it Thuringia, Hesse and Lower Saxony. It rises in the Thuringian Slate Mountains in South Thuringia and together with the Fulda in Hann. Münden the two headwaters of the Weser. The river is the industrial river most heavily loaded with salt in today Central Europe.
The Main hiking trails of the HWGHV were introduced from 1973 to replace the route markings with standard signs. The 29 km long Nieste-Werra-Weg, which connects the valleys of Nieste and Werra with the Kaufunger Forest represents, an approximately 170 km² large mostly wooded low mountain range.
getting there
By car
Parking spaces for hikers along the Nieste-Werra-Weg can be found east of Heiligenrode at the Schützenhaus, between Nienhagen and the Kaufunger Forest, at the Nauturfreundehaus Steinberg and at the Hedemünden train station. Since the Nieste-Werra-Weg is a long-distance hiking trail, the use of public transport to get there is recommended.
With public transport
Both starting points of the Nieste-Werra-Weg can be easily reached by bus and train. All stops on Nieste-Werra-Weg or in the immediate vicinity have been linked with a photo. In addition, all bus and AST lines operating there are listed, the timetables can be downloaded directly as PDF.
Route description
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The Nieste-Werra-Weg can be divided into two stages and runs mainly over paved forest and farm roads. But even these can quickly become muddy and difficult to walk on when the weather is appropriate. For a detailed hiking map, please simply click on the POIs that will immediately direct you to the described position.
1st stage: Untereustadt - Nienhagen 15.0 km
The first markings of the Nieste-Werra-Weg can be found somewhat hidden in the 1 Holzmarkt / Mühlengasse: Start of the Nieste-Werra-Weg Mühlengasse at the house on Holzmarkt, which is on Leipziger Strasse between the 
Altmarkt / regional council (Lines 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 32 and 37) and Untereustädter Kirchplatz (Lines 4, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 32 and 37) lies. From there you follow the Mühlengasse through the Untereustadt into a small park on the Fulda near the lock, through which there are other hiking trails and the asphalt footpath and bike path Hess. Long-distance cycle route R1 (Fulda cycle route) run away. Following the markings of the Nieste-Werra-Weg, you soon reach Hafenstrasse, cross Scharnhorststrasse (Bundesstrasse 7/83) and pass the Wolpertinger Brewery, the Harbor bridge (Line 10) and one OBI hardware store the Kassel harbor, in which there is also an exhibition of the Fuldaschifffahrt museum association is located. Past the eponymous port (Line 10) the port area is circled once and you now also walk the markings of student path (X 13) and Discovery tour Kassel to the south of an allotment garden on asphalt farm roads kassel out. Finally, at the same time you cross the {{Marker | type = see | lat = 51.31924 | long = 9.53208 | name = Losse the city limits non Kassel and are now in the municipality of Niestetal.
When you arrive in Sandershausen, you can take the Haarweg to reach the Nieste for the first time, which is also to be crossed at the same time. The Nieste-Werra-Weg now runs along the streets Auf der Bleiche and Hannoversche Straße (Landesstraße 562) to church (Lines 30, 31 and 33), which is also a 2 Sandershausen Church (hiking board) Information board about local hiking trails is located. The Protestant church itself can be reached via Kirchgasse, the Nieste-Werra-Weg leads directly past it via Schillingsgasse. A short time later, Schillingsgasse turns into Hugo-Preuss-Straße, on which you pass the Wichtelbrunnenbad the 3 Wichtelbrunnen Niestetal reached after crossing under the federal motorway 7 and Hermann-Scheer-Straße. Following the markings of the hiking route, walk along the asphalted Wichtelbrunnenstraße to Heiligenrode, where, after crossing the Niestetalstraße (state road 3237), you walk uphill past the Landhotel Zum Niestetal the town center and the 4 Heiligenrode Church (Protestant) achieved.
From the Protestant church, in addition to the markings of the Nieste-Werra-Weg, you now also follow the markings of Herkulesweg (X 7) and Kassel-Steig (KS), all together via Wicherstrasse, Witzenhäuser Strasse and Lithstrasse, as well as past the Wicherstrasse (Lines 31 and 32), At the forest bush (Line 32) and Niestetalstrasse (Line 32) point back to the Niestetal. At a wooden trail sign, you first walk a short distance along Niestetalstraße (Landesstraße 3237) before you cross the 5 Schützenhaus hiking car park, from which the seven-kilometer circular route 32 "Niesteaue" starts and enters the forest. From the Schützenhaus you walk on a shady gravel forest path through the slightly curvy Niestetal past an information board to the spring wall until just before the state border between Hesse and Lower Saxony. At the one there 6 Junction of the alternative route Kassel-Steig At the fork in the path, the Nieste-Werra-Weg first leads uphill on a gravel forest path before it descends on a steeper forest path to Uschlag. Alternatively, if you want to avoid this difficult-to-walk section, you can follow this Kassel-Steig, which is easier to walk and is marked without additional meters past the mill to Uschlag. Via Schulstrasse you finally reach Kasseler Strasse (Landesstrasse 563), where the 7 Uschlag stop Landwehrhagener StraßeLandwehrhagener Strasse (Lines 32, 33, 34 and 196) is located.
2nd stage: Nienhagen - Hedemünden 14.0 km
Of the Landwehrhagener Strasse (Lines 32, 33, 34 and 196) you first walk on Kasseler Straße (Landesstraße 563) past the Back alley (Lines 33, 34 and 196) before turning north into Neustadt Street. Follow this uphill out of Uschlag, before arriving on the ridge further north for the time being. After a while, the Nieste-Werra-Weg branches off to the east, hardly noticeable due to the lack of markings, onto an unpaved farm road down to the Ingelheimbachtal. Arrived at one 8 ford with the wooden bridge on the Ingelheimbach, follow the markings of the hiking trail upstream over an often muddy, difficult-to-walk unpaved farm road. Although the route section, which is also signposted as a cycle path, runs through the Ingelheimbachtal in a very attractive landscape, it should only be walked in absolutely dry weather conditions. Alternatively, you can use a paved and more easily accessible farm road to the north of the valley to the 212 district road and continue on the hiking trail ⊥ to Nienhagen (see map). Once the bad section of the path along the Ingelheimbach has been passed, you will come to a gravel forest path that is easy to walk again, which leads you past the junction of the Nienhagen barefoot path to the village of Nienhagen, where you walk steeply up the Ingelheimstraße to the Protestant St. Elisabeth Church and the one standing on either side of the church 9 Nienhagen stop churchchurch (Lines 30, 33, 196) reached.
Nienhagen, part of the municipality Staufenberg is left via Steinbergstrasse in an easterly direction. Passing the Alte Sandgrube hiking car park, you reach the at the edge of the forest 10 Nienhäger forest hut, a wooden refuge from which the ascent on gravel forest roads up into the Kaufunger Forest begins. Going straight ahead you get deeper and deeper into the forest, past old wooden benches and hunters' stalls. Shortly after a paved forest path has crossed that leads down to the Ingelheim pond with a refuge, the markings of the Nieste-Werra path point north into an unpaved forest path. This runs, also marked as II, gently winding gently uphill to another gravel forest path, in which one turns to the east. Via another unpaved path that crosses a meadow, one finally reaches the currently closed one in the deepest solitude 11 Naturfreundehaus Steinberg, also called Steinberghaus.
From the Steinberghaus you first cross the gravel parking lot before you reach the asphalt coal road a little later, which follows Hann. Münden over the mountain ranges of the Kaufunger Forest runs. The Frau-Holle-path (X 4) also runs parallel to this. Shortly after the Kohlenstraße, you also cross the border between East of the Steinbergkopf Lower Saxony and Hesse. The Nieste-Werra-Weg runs here over an unpaved forest path or forest path, which, however, meets a paved forest path again after a few meters. Further on, following the white markings of the Nieste-Werra-Weg, you turn into a gravel and rocky one 12 Forest path south of the Hohe Wand one, which one follows mostly slightly downhill and winding along the southern slope of the Hohe Wand to the east of the Nymphenteich, which was created to supply water to the glassworks in Ziegenhagen. Slightly uphill you finally reach the buildings of the former glassworks, after which the local part of Ziegenhagen, Glashütte, was named. Past the 13 Ziegenhagen stop at GlashütteGlassworks (Lines 218 and 218.1 (Mobilfalt)) you go down Sebastian-Kneipp-Straße to Ziegenhagen, where just behind the center (Lines 218 and 218.1 (Mobilfalt)) the Kaufungerwaldweg of Sneezes added, which runs together with the Nieste-Werra-Weg as far as the Hedemünden train station.
Continue walking down Sebastian-Kneipp-Straße past the guest house with a hiking board for the local circular hiking trails to Oberöder Weg, at which the Nieste-Werra-Weg branches off to the north uphill into the Oberöder Weg. A little later this turns into a gravel forest path at the edge of the forest, which you can follow in an arc around the Burned Head with a beautiful view towards Werra Valley past the fountain Ziegenhagen to 14 Branch forest path national border National border between Hesse and Lower Saxony follows. Shortly before this one changes to an unpaved forest path, on which one switches again and again between the Hessian and Lower Saxony side and finally hikes steeply downhill over serpentines to the Werra. Alternatively, you can bypass this section on not so steep, but unmarked paths past the Heegen sports field. Finally you walk along an asphalt avenue through a stone arch to the Brueckenstrasse (Line 101), where the Werra valley cycle path the Nieste-Werra-Weg crosses, and on over the Werra to Hedemünden, a district of Hann. Münden into it. Past the Raiffeisen and a roundabout, keep to the left and finally after 29 kilometers along the Bahnhofsweg you will reach 15 Hedemünden station: destination of the Nieste-Werra-Weg Hedemünden station on the Hanover Southern Railway (KBS 611).
trips
If you want, you can take a detour to the Hedemünden Roman camp do, which is accessible to tourists by a small circular route with information boards and is located west of Hedemünden. The Roman camp can be reached from Hedemünden train station via the hiking route ◊, the distance is simply three kilometers.
Hedemünden is a district of Hann. Münden in the tariff zones from NVV and also from VSN. As a result, the Lower Saxony ticket is just as valid there as the Hesse ticket.
literature
- MK Meißner-Kaufunger Wald Southern Leinetal - topographic leisure map 1:50 000, ISBN 978-3-89446-318-2 , 9.50 €, published jointly by Werratal Tourismus Marketing GmbH and the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation (2012).
- HR Habichtswald / Reinhardswald Nature Park - Topographic leisure map 1:50 000, ISBN 978-3-89446-319-9 , 9.50 €, published jointly by the Hessisch-Waldeckischer Gebirgs- und Heimatverein e.V. and the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation (2012).
