This hike connects two of the sights in the Kyffhäuser region: the Kyffhäuser monument and the Palatinate in Tilleda. If you start in time, there is enough time for both sights, the hike itself and of course for a cozy stop. There are several places to stop for a break both on the Kyffhäuser and in Tilleda.
Especially with good ones Distant view (?)the Kyffhäuser monument is an ingenious way to overlook the landscape between the Harz Mountains, Leipzig Völkerschlachtdenkmal and Erfurt Cathedral.
Brief description
It is a very pleasant and varied hike. You cross orchards and oak forests, use an old ravine for the ascent and have a real panoramic view. Finally, there is also the ruin of an old water mill to visit.
Between the Kyffhäuser and Tilleda there is a service On-call bus. This makes it possible to walk only half of the hike or to split up the hiking group.
| begin | Tilleda |
| aim | Tilleda |
| Intermediate goals | Kyffhäuser, Langes Tal, Ententeich, Brandberg, Alte Mühle |
| mark | differently |
| Duration (pure walking time with a brisk pace) | 3:30 h |
| distance | 12.8 km |
| Elevation gain (total) | 343 m |
| Altitude descent (total) | -343 m |
| Tourist Attractions | the Kyffhäuser Monument and the Palatinate Tilleda |
| Refreshments | Kyffhauser, Tilleda |
| suitable for children | Yes |
| suitable for mountain bikers | yes, but very difficult, Brandberg departure only for Expert |
| Local transport | Bus stop on the Kyffhäuser and on the Pfalz |
| preferred season | all year round, even in winter (sunken road may be full of snow!) |
| Abbreviations | Yes |
The Kyffhäuser Mountains is a nature park!
Elevation profile
map
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Here is the representation of the route (from the GPX file) and a hiking map:
 Tilleda-Kyffhäuser-Ententeich and back |  Wolwedatal hiking map |
| Route: source and license CC-BY-SA | Hiking map, license and source: OSM hiking & riding map |
Directions
| Directions | km | mark |
|---|---|---|
| The hike starts at the bus stop Tilleda, Königspfalz. The well-marked path leads in the direction of the car park Kyffhäuser Monument over an orchard. Right at the beginning you have a beautiful view of the Goldene Aue and up to the Kyffhäuser. The Gietenkopf can be seen on the left. After a short ravine, you cross a small plantation again before the actual ascent begins. This also leads steeply uphill in a ravine for about 10-15 minutes. You walk through a pure oak forest. The path then becomes a little flatter again. At the following fork, keep left and come to the large quarry (parking lot) under the Kyffhäuser monument. | 0 |  |
| Here you follow the to the right Kyffhäuserweg and shortly afterwards reaches the lower castle. The large gate makes it immediately clear that there is something special to visit here. After visiting the lower castle, you leave it again through the gate. Two paths now lead to the Kyffhauser monument, on the left you cross the Mittelburg (300 million years old petrified wood) and you get directly to the entrance of the Kyffhauser monument. On the right you bypass the central castle and come a little below the entrance onto the street that leads to the monument. For the visit (Kyffhäuser monument, castle fountain, Barbarossaturm) you should estimate about an hour and a half. There is also a good snack bar on the premises. | 2,15 | |
| The path now leads down. The parking lot can be reached via a wide driveway. Here, too, there is the opportunity to fortify yourself at the snack bar or to stop off at one of the two restaurants. Then follow the main hiking trail (across from the Kyffhäuser Cafe / snack bar on the road) down towards the valley Duck pond / Bad Frankenhausen. Again the path leads through a beautiful oak forest. After passing through the Long valley the path leads uphill again, but this time through a beech forest. When you get back to the top, you can marvel at historic cart paths in a sharp left bend. Shortly afterwards you reach a wide, gravel path. A little further to the right, a street leads past | 3,65 |  |
| Our path now goes sharply to the left Dirt road along. From here it goes back to the village parallel to the slope. The Duck pond lies diagonally to the right of the point where you meet the gravel road. | 6,1 | |
| After approx. 800m (approx. 10 minutes) the marked Kyffhäuserweg leads to the top right. Here you should continue to hike straight ahead, because this is the only way to see the overall panorama of the Wolweda Valley. A very beautiful hillside path provides several views over to the Kyffhäuser, into the Wolweda valley and down to Tilleda. | 6,9 | no |
| Below the Gietenkopf you come across the Kyffhäuserweg, which you follow to Tilleda. Shortly after the crossing, there is a deeply cut ravine that leads the hiker down into the valley. To the left of the path there are old quarries and cart paths to be visited. | 9,1 | |
| When you arrive in the valley you come across the stream Wolweda. Here you now have two options: Immediately in front of the stream, a field path leads parallel to the stream to the right in the direction Old Mill (Ruin, only foundation walls), which you reach shortly afterwards. A rest area invites you to take a break. Unfortunately, the mill can only be reached if the grass and nettles do not block the way. Then it goes straight on (when the path is mowed) past a variety garden. The palace complex can now be seen on the left. An asphalt road begins in the village, but you only follow it for about 100m. | 11,0 |  |
| The last section goes over a meadow path to the left, past the Schusterhöhle directly to the entrance of the Königspfalz. As an alternative (without going to the mill) you can also cross the stream and follow this path through the cherry plantation directly into the village and from there to the entrance to the Königspfalz. | 12,2 |  |
Pictures of the hike
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| Pfalztor | Knight fight | Wedding of Otto II and Theophanu (Jesus in the middle) | Oak forest in the Kyffhäuser Mountains |
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| Quarry below the monument | View from the Brandberg | View from the head of the church council in Wolwedatal's | Wolwedatal at the "old mill" |
Information about the hike
The hike during the cherry blossom season is particularly recommended (late April ... early May). There is one on the northern edge of Kyffhauser Orchard Meadow Association. Not only can you stop there, you can also buy regional products Palatinate Tilleda is open between the beginning of March and the end of November. On the website of the Palatinate is above all the Calendar of events important. Maybe there is something for the children?
You can see the bus schedule here explore.
useful information
The Palatinate in Tilleda is one of the largest excavated and partially reconstructed palace complexes in Germany. The name is closely related to it Theophanu. In Rome she married Otto II in 972 and she is the mother of Otto III. After the early death of her husband, she ruled from 983 to 991 and signed her documents with "exalted empress by God's grace". She was the first foreign head of state in our country. What is particularly interesting is the fact that she was not only a woman, but that she was also a foreigner.
The Kyffhäuser Monument stands on the remains of the Kyffhausen Castle. It is one of the many monuments of the Emperor worship after 1888. The architect was Bruno Schmitz.
At the "constituent assembly of the committee for German national festivals" on January 31, 1897 in the Reich House in Berlin, he founded the building of a National celebration site in the Wolwedatal with the sentence:
The whole thing - the fairground located in the solemn, quiet forest valley with its amphitheater, its viaducts, waterfalls and bridge crossings, closed off at the front by the terraced fronts of the Kyffhäuserberg with its hall building, dominated by the mighty cliffs of the Burgberg - on its oak forest-surrounded, legendary summit the noble imperial monument enthroned and its golden ornament rises up to cloud-kissing heights - truly a picture of incomparable beauty, worthy of the great idea of a patriotic festival site.
A kind of amphitheater was planned between the two mountains east of the monument. The Chairman Wilhelm Böckmann commissioned Bruno Schmitz to work out the corresponding sketches, which Schmitz also made. Anyone who knows the view of the Wolweda Valley will sense the madness of that time Wilhelminism.
literature
- Eberhard Horst: Beloved Theophanu - The life novel of a German empress from Byzantium Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2nd edition, 2007 ISBN 3 499 23698 2
