Kassel District

Ottrau

Bechtelsberg Viewpoint and Picnic Area

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Kassel District

Schwalm-Eder-Kreis

Ottrau

Bechtelsberg Viewpoint and Picnic Area

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Bechtelsberg Viewpoint and Picnic Area

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Location: Ottrau, Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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February 13, 2022

Hiking

From the park-like Bechtelsberg Plateau, the view sweeps far over the Hessian low mountain range landscape, on a clear day to the north-west over the Lahnberge to the "Sackpfeife" in the Eder mountains, the "Kahler Asten" in the Sauerland, near the Westphalian town of Winterberg and to the "Hohen Lohr" in the North Hessian nature park Kellerwald; south to the peaks of the Rhön and Vogelsberg.

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𝘾.𝘽. 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨

August 30, 2022

Hiking

Here you have a wonderful view, the ascent is more than worthwhile.

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Ragnar Gunnerson

December 15, 2018

Hiking

In the south of the Ziegenhain district, the Bechtelsberg rises up to a considerable height near Ottrau, an ancient decanatese seat of the Franconian Hessengau. Its summit affords an extraordinarily wide and beautiful view, and on its slope grow many medicinal herbs collected at Ascension, even from distant people. The summit of the Bechtelsberg is called the Rumpelskuppe, a name that may have to thank for the monstrous, thunder-like roar of its origins

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