Hechlingen Hollow Way

The Hechlinger Hohlweg is also called "Schafgasse". The path is around 250 meters long and cuts up to 9 meters deep into the surrounding landscape. This makes it one of the largest and most impressive hollow ways in the Hahnenkamm region. The path was created over thousands of years. Mass amounts of water first washed away the soil and cut into the sandstone. Cattle drives, carts and use as a footpath then created the current hollow way. The path used to be one of the main routes from Hechlingen to the fields and pastures on the Kapellenberg and the Katharinenkapelle. The hollow way is accessible to tourists with a local and natural history educational trail around 1.8 km long and created in 2010. The path has two wooden gates at the beginning and end. Some information boards accompany him up to St. Catherine's Chapel (komoot.de/highlight/740845).Source / more information:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohlweg_(Hechlingen)

A great ravine with impressive trees and roots. The trees and the sandstone make it wildly romantic.

Over thousands of years, an impressive hollow way of breathtaking beauty was created in the sandstone of the Hahnenkamm. According to the saying "constant dripping wears away the stone", masses of water washed away what they themselves, cattle drives, carts and the footsteps of busy churchgoers had loosened from the ground, thus creating the Hechlinger Hohlweg.
With a length of 250 m and a depth of up to 9 m, it is one of the largest hollow ways in the region.
The Hechlinger Hohlweg used to be one of the main routes from Hechlingen to the fields and pastures on the Kapellenberg. Today, a 1.2 km long educational trail leads through the popular connecting path to the Katharinen Chapel