Am Köpfchen

A big gate in the middle of the meadows, which was called a head. Maybe this should be interpreted as access to the castle ruin Wilenstein.

The sculpture "TOR", which is reminiscent of the outline of a wine bottle, leads to the head. Here is a seating group with a sandstone from the PWV Trippstadt

From here you have a wonderful view over the surroundings of Trippstadt. Opposite is a gate made of sandstone, it was made in the framework of a sculpture symposium and leads to the "head", a small forest with seating.

great place with a view over wide meadows. There is a very nice bench right at the stone gate for a short break.

One of the sculptures along the sculpture path around Trippstadt

Interesting stone with a view of the valley.

Charming landscape, wide views.

Distinctive point in the landscape

Nice rest area hidden in the forest. Directly at the "TOR" of the sculpture path RLP

An impressive sculpture that fits perfectly into this beautiful cultural landscape.

The Am Köpfchen rest area can almost be overlooked, you have to pass the sculpture "Gate" and you will find the rest area.

The sculpture only reveals itself when you look at it a second time, or when you read it 🤣

If you want to go from the castle in Trippstadt to the Karlstal Gorge, you will inevitably come here.More information about the seven sculptures between Trippstadt and Stelzenberg: kulturland.rlp.de/de/kultur-erleben/bildende-kunst/sculpture-paths-in-rheinland-pfalz/between-trippstadt-und-stelzenberg

A small piece of forest with seating. Mighty pines stand here and a hewn boulder from the Palatinate Forest Association. For children, this place is a wonderful playground on summer days!The peaceful resting place gives no indication that the French troops barricaded themselves here in 1794, only to then on July 13, put the Austrians and Prussians lying opposite on the Bartelsberg to flight and take the village.
(trippstadt.de)A narrow meadow path on which you have to turn off the main hiking trail, through a gate made of sandstone, it was made as part of a sculpture symposium, leads to the "Köpfchen" in the forest!

Location: "Gate"(7)1994 - Works made of red sandstone and steel
Note: This section can be combined very well with the section in Karlstal. The distance between the old melt near Stelzenberg and Trippstadt is about 5 kilometers. Appropriate footwear is recommended for hikers. The route is also very attractive as a bike tour.
DescriptionSeven sculptors took part in the 3rd sculpture symposium of the Rhineland-Palatinate Sculpture Trail Association in late summer 1996. The specifications of the association were limited to formal criteria: the works should be made of sandstone or steel and they should rise at least two meters above the ground.
Dealing with people is the focus of the artistic work of the Krefeld professor Hans-Joachim Albrecht. His "Doppelkopf" (1) can be imagined as an encounter between two people: a man and a woman meet at the intersection of several paths. At the end of Stelzenberg, the eye suddenly gets caught by the steel sculpture "Peilung" (2) by Joachim Koch. His sculpture marks the landscape and focuses the gaze like in a camera viewfinder. The Wiesbaden artist Heiner Thiel deals with the interplay of line, surface and space. If you stand at the right angle in front of the steel sculpture, which weighs more than four tons, the four panels, one behind the other, push together to form an "open square" (3). "Balzgeflüster" (4) is the name of the two steel tubes by Gereon Leppers, each with a rotatable wing attached to the tip. In the wind, the two wings do not necessarily move synchronously, they "talk" to each other, they "court" with each other. The "accumulator" (5) by Otmar Sattel is completely different. The sculpture is a hearthstone on which the wanderer can rest and enjoy a very unusual perspective of the sky. The embedded copper sheet in the middle transmits the heat of the sun's rays to the body. Hartmut Stielow describes his work as a search for a new, open order of unstable equilibrium. The materials stone and iron are kept in his sculpture "O.T." (6) the scales: the stone hollows out the iron - the iron embraces the stone. Werner Ratering's sandstone sculpture was specially designed as a "gateway" (7) to a small beech grove. The blue mortar curtain is gilded on its upper side, as is the underside of the crossbar. Incident light is reflected and produces a light that does not otherwise occur in nature.
(Excerpt from Kulturland.rip.de)

A nice little rest area where you can sit nicely in the round.