Hiking Highlight
Recommended by 33 out of 34 hikers
This Highlight is in a protected area
Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Bayerischer Odenwald
Location: Eichenbühl, Miltenberg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
There wasn't much water here today - but it was enough to refresh us👍
April 7, 2024
After no more water ran out of the dead well, or nothing should come to anything, members of the Wednesday hikers renovated the well again and cleaned the blocked pipes and resealed the leaks.
Now the water gurgles out of the tube.
July 9, 2020
Quote from: main-echo.de/regional/kreis-miltenberg/ein-schoener-flecken-natur-art-7291116"From very old traditions it is said that charcoalers did their trade in the forest of the Kohlgrunds. Split wood was piled up in a pile and charcoal was extracted from it, which was needed for forging iron parts.Not much can be said about the fountain of the dead, there is only one anecdote about it. A long time ago a black man - presumably a charcoal burner - who buried a stolen monstrance at the site of what is now the fountain of the dead, is said to have lived there. There is no documented evidence of this story about the fountain of the dead "
May 16, 2021
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