バートエッセンの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ20

Nice shelter for a break 👍

With a cold drink.

Ideal hut for rest

Goethe Hut and Eichendorff Memorial Stone After a few hundred meters on the TERRA.track Goethegang we reach the Goethe Hut. The Bad Essen Beautification Association built it and gave it this name at the opening, which took place just a few days after the 10th anniversary of the German poet's death. After the hut burned down in 2014, the association rebuilt it the following year. Several quotes from Goethe adorn the hut. On the Born, the Goethe Hut naturally also welcomes us on our tour on the TERRA.track Goethegang. Just a few hundred meters further on we meet the next poet - in the form of the Eichendorff Memorial Stone. On July 20, 1910, spa guests of the Waldhotel erected a memorial stone made of broken rock from the site on their local mountain with the then fascinating distant view. It was based on the poem “Reiselied” by Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857), which is why this place was not given the name Eichendorff-Denkstein until much later.

Definitely go in, worth seeing

There you will find the tree of wisdom!😃👍

This circular route 4 offers a relaxing forest landscape as well as still quite bare mountain slopes, which are freshly green after the devastating hurricane Kyrill in 2007 due to new tree plantings and emerging wild growth. After a short ascent from the parking lot, the "4" leads to the right via a newly created wood removal path to a forest edge path on the north side of the Stuckenberg. Here it is worth taking a look at large parts of the Wiehengebirge and the wooded heights beyond Ostenwalde. A varied hiking route with branches and "spiders" leads with the help of the "4" to a deep brook valley, the "Schnepfensiek", which you cross with lots of curves. On the short, steep ascent (20%!) that follows, you should pay attention to the surprisingly large Douglas firs along the way. From the fence of the Diedrichsburg-Nordtor forest area, the path leads about 800 m to the east gate and the Thomaskreuz with the refuge. On the ridge path that follows, the landscape has been totally transformed by Mount Cyril. Bare hilltops and mountain slopes and newly reforested areas surprisingly offer an unusual view of the long stretching mountains of the Teutoburg Forest. After returning to the Stuckenberg, it is worth making a detour to the observation tower with views of Buer and the Wiehengebirge and across the Elsen lowlands to the mountains in the south. (Source: https://pages.et4.de)

The Beautification and Tourist Association Melle (VVV) maintains five refuges in the Meller Mountains. In addition to the Thomaskreuz hut, these are: the Kerlihütte, the hut on the Ottoshöhe, the hut on the Steinkreuz and the hut on the Weberhaus car park.