The highlight referred to here as "Heinrichpfad" is actually called "Heimlicherpfad" and is said to have served as an escape route in the Thirty Years' War. Today he serves among other things for mountain bikers as a single trail. Here you rarely meet walkers and even less often riders.

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Taunus☘

January 31, 2023

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The information on the sign suggests that the population took this path to safety during the Thirty Years' War.

During the Thirty Years' War, Hofheim was plundered and repeatedly devastated by the Spaniards, Bavarians, Swedes and the French. Source: hofheim.de/tourismus/Stadtportrait/History/index.php

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schoendraussen

February 5, 2021

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There is not much information about the "Secret Path", but it is probably an escape route that the local population used during the Thirty Years' War.

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