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Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Kassel District

Schwalm-Eder-Kreis

Ottrau

Hexenkaute (Silberkaute)

Natural Monuments

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Kassel District

Schwalm-Eder-Kreis

Ottrau

Hexenkaute (Silberkaute)

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Hexenkaute (Silberkaute)

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

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1. Braunsbach Spring – Hexenkaute (Silberkaute) loop from Berfa

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2. Die Stirn Viewpoint – Singers' Stage Bechtelsberg loop from Berfa

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3. Herzberg Castle – Hof GuhnStadt loop from Ottrau

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Michel ✔

February 13, 2022

The "Witches' Chew". From time to time a "light figure" appeared here, the goddess of fertility BERCHTA, as the stories and legends of the past tell. The entrance to their underground castle was a hollow in the basalt rock, the witch's chew. But how did the entrance to the hidden castle become the witches' cauldron? In order to dissuade people from believing in Berchta, the church authorities declared the goddess Berchta and her entourage to be witches after Christian missionary work had taken place. Thus the "entrance to the Berchta Castle" became the "Witches' Kaute". Witches now came and went, accompanied by the rumble of thunder from the nearby "Rumpelskuppe". People were afraid of it and many an innocent woman in the area was suspected of witchcraft, even the English missionary Walpurga, who gave her name to the "Walpurgis Night" even after her death.
Source:
vogelsberg-touristik.de/aktiv/wandern/geotouren/berchta-rundweg.html#/de/vogelsberg-touristik/default/detail/Tour/t_100187549/Berchta_Rundweg

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𝘾.𝘽. 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨

August 30, 2022

Because of its mythology, this place is very inspiring and mysterious. Especially at dusk I imagine it to be really scary here.

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Ragnar Gunnerson

December 15, 2018

Near the Rumpelskuppe there is a kesselelförmige depression, the witches chewing, also called Silberkaute; here on the 1st of May, at midnight, great host and witch dance will be held.

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

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Hexenkaute (Silberkaute)

1. Braunsbach Spring – Hexenkaute (Silberkaute) loop from Berfa

2. Die Stirn Viewpoint – Singers' Stage Bechtelsberg loop from Berfa

3. Herzberg Castle – Hof GuhnStadt loop from Ottrau

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