Forest section of the Blades path The Klingenpfad is a circular hiking trail that surrounds the entire city of Solingen. He has as a waymark an S in the circle (Solinger Rundweg).
The length of the trail is almost 70 kilometers. Due to the since the Middle Ages praised throughout Europe Solingen cutlery industry, the trail Klingenpfad was baptized. Refreshment of the signs is carried out at regular intervals by the Ortsabteilung Solingen of the Sauerland Gebirgsverein.
The establishment of the initially only 60 kilometers long way was carried out as a job creation measure of the National Socialist regime in the years 1932 to 1935 and was carried out by the unemployed. The inauguration took place in 1935. 1975 came through a municipal reform, the community castle on the Wupper to Solingen, which is why the trail was extended by 15 kilometers around the new district.
Clockwise, the blade path leads from the center of Gräfrath to the highest point of Solingen, the Wupper past Kohlfurth and Schaberg, under the Müngstener bridge, until Burg an der Wupper, climbs the ridge to Remscheid-Westhausen, crosses the Eschbachtal and climbs up the mountain after Schloss Burg, the Sengbachtalsperre passes around on the banks of the river and climbs Pfaffenberg behind Glüder. On the slopes of the Wuppertal are passed along the river numerous historic Schleifkotten (including the today Schleifermuseen Balkhauser Kotten and Wipperkotten), and the villages Wupperhof, up and down, the Weinsberger Bachtal, rocker and Haasenmühle and the castles Haus Hohenscheid and Haus Nesselrath. In the district Ohligs is located on the way the castle Hackhausen and after crossing the Ohligser Heide and the district Ohligs you reach the castle Caspersbroich on the brook Itter and the Heidberger mill. Along the Itter it then goes back to Gräfrath.
The Klingenpfad is considered one of the most beautiful and varied hiking trails in the Bergisches Land. Peaceful paths through forests, over ridges and past historically significant points characterize the image of this carefully embedded in nature hiking trail.
The path can be tackled step by step, and hikers will find suitable accommodation and refreshments at regular intervals. Wikipedia
The small memorial commemorates the creation of the blade path in the years 1933 to 1935. However, it was no less a "charitable" project, but was built with the help of the Reich Labor Service.