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Himmelstreppe at the Hennesee dam

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Himmelstreppe at the Hennesee dam

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Location: Meschede, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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1. Hennedamm Viewing Platform – Hennesee loop from Meschede

7.70km

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2. Horbach Stream – Hennedamm Viewing Platform loop from Meschede

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3. Berghäuser Bucht Swimming Area – Hennedamm Viewing Platform loop from Meschede

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T!MO

November 4, 2019

Great for CrossFit!

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Horst_B✨

May 18, 2019

The sky staircase at the dam of Hennesee

333 steps, 55 vertical meters and up to 43 ° slope! These are the basic data describing the stairway to the dam of Hennesees scarce but impressive. The idea of a direct ascent possibility from the Dammfuß up to the dam crown was already born on the creative week in autumn 2009.

Source: meschede.de/rathaus-service/infrastruktur-stadtentwicklung/projekte/regionale-2013/sauerland-seen/einzelprojekte/himmelstreppe

Very quickly, the Himmelstreppe has established itself as a special highlight of Hennesee visitors and in the sports world.

A little tip: you do not have to master the stairs as a whole. Especially inexperienced benefit from shorter loads, such. B. 3 x 30 steps, or 20 seconds with as many steps as possible and in between again and again to relax the stairs go down easily. Not only is it more wholesome, but it's also more effective as an overdose of the Moon, if you take them too early in the whole.

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JakobusPilger

October 29, 2024

Given the number of steps that have to be climbed here, I am immediately reminded of the – admittedly somewhat absurd-sounding – poem “Antigonish” by Hughes MEARNS (1875 to 1965). If you want to keep the meter, the translation of the first verse is:

“Yesterday on the stairs

I saw a man who wasn’t there.

He wasn’t there today either.

I wish, I wish he would go away.”

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Location: Meschede, Hochsauerlandkreis, Arnsberg District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Himmelstreppe at the Hennesee dam

1. Hennedamm Viewing Platform – Hennesee loop from Meschede

2. Horbach Stream – Hennedamm Viewing Platform loop from Meschede

3. Berghäuser Bucht Swimming Area – Hennedamm Viewing Platform loop from Meschede

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