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Balhorn ' er Evangelical Lutheran Church⛪️

Beautiful view from the Erzeberg. There are many beautiful paths for walking in the countryside.

The selective browsing of deer makes it more difficult for the hardwoods to spread. Furthermore, unsuitable forestry measures, including a lack of forestry measures, can lead to too many old trees preventing regeneration. Excessive removal of trees from the upper layer promotes natural regeneration that grows too evenly. Other hazards that should be avoided include road construction, substance inputs through air pollution, the one-sided promotion of a tree species and reforestation with conifers. Some typical plants of this habitat type are hollow larch spur, monkshood, broad-leaved bellflower and moon violet (silverleaf). Typical animal species are fire salamanders, elm hairstreaks, the shoveler - a carnivorous beetle - and the small maple beetle, a wood-eating beetle. This highlight is part of the Natura Trail "Waldmeisterweg - From the Ems Valley to the Dogs of Falkenstein": https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/1473694241

The gorge and slope mixed forest types are generally worthy of protection. They occur in good form in the Kassel district. The main threats to this type of habitat come from excessive roe deer populations.

Shallow, nutrient-rich soils are characteristic of ravine and mixed slope forests (Tilio-Acerion). They are characterized by the continuous erosion of the source rock through frost, water and root blasting. In the upper area and on the slopes, the soil is subject to severe erosion through runoff, so that the basalt often rises to the surface. Eroded soil and broken rocks collect on the lower slope. The species growing here have to endure this erosion on the upper slope and the partial burial on the lower slope. Here the beech is inferior to other tree species, so that summer lime, sycamore elm, sycamore maple, Norway maple, bird cherry and ash, the so-called fine hardwood species, are dominant in this habitat type. The locations at Falkenstein are fresh to dry and warm “summer linden-wych elm-block rubble forests”. The Dutch elm disease of the last 20 years has also taken its toll here - old, dry and fallen elm trunks are evidence of the once dominant tree species. However, due to its high reproduction rate, the elm is still represented by many young specimens. This highlight is part of the Natura Trail "Waldmeisterweg - From the Ems Valley to the Dogs of Falkenstein": https://www.komoot.com/de-de/tour/1473694241

The history of Engels Ruh refers to the name of Elisabeth Engel from Sand, daughter of the linen weaver Friedrich Engel. Elisabeth Engel was born in 1858. She was always called “Angel” by everyone in Sand and the surrounding area. This didn’t change when she got married and became Mrs. Rothe. She had a cart with which she bought fruit and vegetables from farmers in Sand and the surrounding area and then offered them for sale every week at the market in Kassel. In this way she provided for her family. Most likely the cart was pulled by a pony. The chronology is before 1904, as from this point onwards the Kassel-Naumburg small railway ran to Kassel. No further details are known today. Ms. Elisabeth Engel always laid at this point, between Bad Emstal (sand) and Niedenstein one Take a breather. Every week, year after year. So the "Angel's breaks" remained in the memory of the people around and in Bad Emstal, the place is known as "Engels Ruh", especially in Sand and Niedenstein the Population passed over. Even today the place is a popular rest area between the Altenburg, the Falkenstein, the ramparts and the medieval desert "Embser Berg" of the Emser Berg. Hiking trails intersect here in all directions and so the "Engels Ruh" can carry on its name.

Nice rest area

The basalt wall, which looks like a giant stone, is directly below the Falkenstein castle ruins. It is only visible once you have dismounted again and dared to look up.