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Rhineland-Palatinate
Bernkastel-Wittlich
Manderscheid

Whirlpools of the Kleine Kyll

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Manderscheid

Whirlpools of the Kleine Kyll

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Whirlpools of the Kleine Kyll

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Natur- und Geopark Vulkaneifel

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    Location: Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    1. HeimatSpur Achtsamkeits-Pfad Kleine Kyll – GesundLand Vulkaneifel

    5.84km

    01:35

    90m

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    Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels.

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    2. Rundtour Windsborn-Kratersee und Meerfelder Maar

    17.1km

    04:56

    360m

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    Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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    3. Whirlpools of the Kleine Kyll – Windsborn Crater summit loop from Manderscheid

    15.0km

    04:24

    350m

    350m

    Hard hike. Good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required.

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    February 25, 2019

    A beautiful and very exciting way. It's definitely worth not taking the signposted shortcut back to the Heidsmühle, but rather climbing up the Wolfsschlucht - it's sure to be a lot of fun for little mountaineers too.

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      October 11, 2020

      Always a very nice tour, I can recommend

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        August 20, 2018

        "When volcanism first started in the area around Manderscheid and Bettenfeld 45 million years ago, the landscape was changed as we still find it today, but only partially.
        After the Mosenberg erupted more than 40,000 years ago, lava flowed into the valley of today's little Kyll. The original bed of little Kyll was repeatedly interrupted by the red-hot current and the water was dammed up. The water had no choice but to eat its way through the stone.
        The so-called strudel pots or colts were also created over many years.
        But what are strudel pots?
        Swirl pots or colts are created by the erosion power of water. A whirlpool is formed due to differently solid rock or just because of an irregularity in the river (for example a tree root). This vortex whirls up the smallest rock fragments and thus grinds off the stone that is adjacent to the vortex.
        There are two ways a strudel pot can be made. Either by turning the water on a soft rock (a horizontal whirlpool is created).

        A vertical whirlpool pot is created
        Water flows past a rock that lies in the river and due to the shape of the rock a whirlpool is created on one side. This whirlpool stands vertically in the water. In this whirlpool it rotates like the horizontal whirlpool rock and sand that was swept away by the current. Due to this effect, a hollow is cut into the rock. A strudel pot is created. "Source & further information at: geocaching.com/geocache/GC75Y04_die-kolke-oder-strudeltopfe-der-kleinen-kyll?guid=0eea16c9-938d-4222-a9a7-7746188ac2ef

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          Location: Manderscheid, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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