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Pingen Trail Kall

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Pingen Trail Kall

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

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    December 27, 2023

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    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 …
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    October 16, 2022

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    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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    February 3, 2024

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    What exactly are pings?

    Pingen are abandoned ore mines or mining sites in which iron ores, lead ores or other minerals were extracted from the earth. In the Kall municipal area you can find around 2,000 of these pings, which have been placed under protection by the Rhenish Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation in Bonn. The inexperienced hiker will think of these Pingen as a bomb crater field, because that's how they initially appear: large numbers of funnel-like depressions, close together, surrounded by ring-shaped heaps and partly overgrown by low bushes or interspersed with tall trees.

    Source: eifelverein-kall.de/index.php/310-der-pingenwanderpfad-kall
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    Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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