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Pingen Trail Kall

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Euskirchen

Kall

Pingen Trail Kall

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Pingen Trail Kall

Recommended by 142 hikers out of 149

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

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Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Hallenthal Mill – Bridge over the Kuttenbach loop from Wahlen

24.2km

06:59

620m

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2. Urft Mill – Horse's Head loop from Kall

17.9km

05:07

420m

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3. Steinfeld Monastery – Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey loop from Kall

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06:49

480m

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R.Bungartz

October 16, 2022

The Pingen hiking trail is an approximately 10 km long mining trail and informs interested hikers on 21 boards about iron ore mining around Kall, which can be traced back to the times of the Celts and Romans.

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December 27, 2023

Ore mining worked like this until the 18th century: First, people looked for spring water in the forest. Based on its color, smell and taste, it was determined that there was ore-bearing rock on site. Those who were experts felt confirmed by certain herbs and mushrooms that thrived there, as well as by the strikingly low growth of the trees and the lack of frost during the cold period. Test prospecting and, if successful, area staking followed. The shafts that were now created were one and a half meters in diameter and 10 to 30 m deep. At the base of the shafts, around 20 m long, horizontal tunnels were dug to extract the ore. From spring to autumn people cultivated fields and harvested the harvest; in the cold winter they went to the mines. Mining was therefore more of a sideline in the family business. Towards the beginning of the 19th century, the veins were exploited down to groundwater. The pits were abandoned, fell into disrepair and slowly filled with earth. And that's why you can see countless small hollows around Kall these days and some of the earth is still giving way today.
Source: 111 places in the Eifel that you have to see

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Cornelia

March 26, 2021

Nice, narrow forest path. Mixed forest, with benches.

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Elevation 450 m

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Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Pingen Trail Kall

1. Hallenthal Mill – Bridge over the Kuttenbach loop from Wahlen

2. Urft Mill – Horse's Head loop from Kall

3. Steinfeld Monastery – Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey loop from Kall

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