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Anyone afraid of cows should avoid the Zierenberger Kuppe. There are two herds of cows there when walking through the meadows. Apparently, no one here thinks it's necessary to give warning!

The Electors and Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel spent their summer holidays at the over 200-year-old Wilhelmshöhe Palace. Landgrave Wilhelm IX had Wilhelmshöhe Palace built as the centerpiece of the Bergpark. It originally consisted of three separate buildings. Later, Elector Wilhelm II had these structures connected. Today, the palace is an important art and cultural museum.

The Zierenberger Viaduct, also known as the Warmetal Viaduct, was built in 1896. It spans the Warmetal Valley with the Warme River at a height of 13.9 meters over a length of 140 meters. The viaduct, consisting of eight arches, was built of natural stone, with conical piers arched over pairs of brick relief arches. The span is 15 meters. The single-track Volkmarsen-Vellmar-Obervellmar railway line runs over the viaduct. The railway bridge is a cultural monument. Source: https://bruecken.gleistrasse.de/zierenberger_viadukt.htm

These veteran beech trees are remnants of an extensive grazing forest – from a time when pigs were still driven into the forests, when humans still lived off the forest. The forestry term for a productive seed year, "full fattening," still reminds us today that domestic animals were regularly well fed or "fattened" during seed years. In times of hardship, beechnuts were also a welcome food source for humans. Lightly roasted, they taste excellent and were used as a coffee substitute. Their oil is tasty and long-lasting. When young and tender, beech leaves can be made into salads. All this is a thing of the past. Today, beechnuts are once again available exclusively to wild animals. In autumn, wild boars, deer, and roe deer gorge themselves on fat reserves. Squirrels gather them for the long winter. And the beechnuts that survive the winter lead to the renewal of the forest – just as nature intended. Please be careful: Raw beechnuts are slightly poisonous. Therefore, don't eat too many. Roasting them makes them more aromatic and digestible. Source: https://www.unsere-pfoten.de/hunde/hutebuchen.htm

Maybe someone will have a tip one day on how to get around these stupid turnstiles 😂 We usually put the bike on the back wheel and somehow maneuver our way through. So...it's not pretty!! 😂😂 Regardless of that (and the cow patties!!), the stones are always worth a trip! 🤗

I can hardly imagine a more beautiful place for a restaurant/café. The Café Friedrichsstein has this wonderful place

You don't have to love the old masters in Wilhelmshöhe Palace. But you should know them and look at them. Fascination for the depiction, attention to detail and technology comes naturally, even if we no longer associate some of the motifs with anything at all today. But Wilhelmshöhe Palace is not only a highlight in the overall structure of the wonderful mountain park because of its painting gallery. 🖐️

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