Helfensteine Rock Formations

Imposing rock formation that was inhabited around 5,000 years ago. Even today it is still an attraction in the landscape with a wonderful view.

Nice view over the vastness of the hawk forest. Here you can watch glider pilots take off and land, in the other direction the view extends to Hercules in Kassel. Narrow paths lead between the basalt rocks. If you want, you can climb a little. Suitable for children and not free from vertigo.

Here you enter a place steeped in history: finds from prehistoric times prove a settlement as early as the Neolithic Age. The oldest pottery sherds found here date from the 6th and 5th centuries BC.
The ramparts on the largest rock of the Helfenstein, with an artificial ditch about 100 meters long from the 12th/13th century, indicate a former high medieval castle.