Fuldaquelle

Maybe not as spectacular as you would imagine, but overall a very nice place. The spring is nicely composed with picnic tables above. Due to the location at the parking lot, the source is easy to reach. Unfortunately, some of the information boards are no longer as easy to read, but you can read the most important information.

Rest area with tables and benches. Right on the parking lot, therefore mostly animated.

The Fuldaquelle invites you to a brief cooling rest

Beautifully framed source. Unfortunately no drinking water; probably because of the road above.

Here springs the Fulda, nice picnic spots, great hiking trails.

The Fulda is the river with the greatest flow length within Hesse. The source should not be missed when hiking in the area

That this meager trickle should become a stately river? Wikipedia says that this is not the real Fulda spring: "This is much higher, almost below the summit. When the construction began over 80 years ago, it was enclosed and used to supply the buildings with drinking water The overflow was led by a pipeline to the point that is now given as the Fulda spring.

The best water

The Fulda, also called Gersfelder Wasser in the upper reaches, is the 220.4 km long left source river of the Weser. It rises in the Hessian part of the Rhön at the Wasserkuppe and ends between the Kaufunger Wald and Reinhardswald in the three-river town of Hann. Münden (Lower Saxony), where it unites with the Werra coming from the right to the Weser.
Source Wikipedia

A good start into the hike around the Wasserkuppe is the Fulda spring. It rises near the trail parking lot at the Wasserkuppe

From here it goes to the North Sea ...

From the Wasserkuppe to Hann. Gemünden, the Fulda paves its way. In the three rivers city it unites to form the Weser.

Run from the source to the mouth.

Springs are always worth a visit ...

Not exactly a cozy place, but this is where the Fulda rises.

Everything has to start small - this also applies to the Fulda and its considerable path to the confluence with the Werra, which comes from Thuringia, and then flows from Hannoversch Münden as the Weser towards Bremen and the North Sea.

Here the Fulda flows from the Wasserkuppe in the Rhön over the Werra and Weser to the North Sea

The source of the Fulda with benches

The source and the first "flowing meters" on the slope of the Wasserkuppe form a beautiful natural spectacle

The origin of the Fulda on the slope of the Wasserkuppe

The Hessian river rises here (or in reality in the immediate vicinity): the Fulda (coll. "Fulle"). This one is in Han. It flows together with the Werra to the Weser and flows into the North Sea.

We started our hike in Hannoversch Münden and now we are at the Fulda spring, which is really beautiful and impressive!

It's hard to believe

The following inscription adorns the Fulda spring:

Stop here! The source feeds you
the Fulda with a clear wave
rushing the mountain salute carries along,
she grows attracted to the Werra,
to the German river and sink the waves
as the Weser ship-livened up into the sea.