Hasenpfad Trail

Great interesting shaped grotto with water inlet

Lorch has a "Schiller grotto" that is hidden in the forest north of Bruck.
This is not a cave, but the rocky upper part of a ravine overgrown with beech and fir forest. A beautiful, symmetrical, mostly water-free grotto with rock wings about 25 m long forms its horseshoe-shaped conclusion on the mountain side. Clay rock is found in the lowest part of the cave. Presumably, water wells up there after heavy rainfall and further clears out the cavity. Immediately next to it is an obviously completely new approach to the formation of a grotto by escaping water in rainy weather. 80 steps away on the right side of the gorge is a smaller but 5 to 6 m deep "side grotto". A rather thin sandstone roof arches over it, slit in the middle on the front half. At the rear end of the fissure, water falls or drips down about 3 m deep. The lower part of this grotto is also made of soft material. Huge, partly room-sized, fallen blocks covered with moss and ferns, covered with ivy are stored in the blade. Friedrich Schiller spent a few years in nearby Lorch during his childhood. The sandstone grotto was named in 1905 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Schiller.
Source: karte.wanderwalter.de/np-sfw/200963_Schillergrotte-Lorch.html

In addition to the Schiller Grotto, the Hasenpfad in northern direction is a dreamlike path through a varied forest area. Very exciting to run.