ガルルシュトルフの山小屋＆キャビン・トップ19

The small shelter is modeled after a historic beehive... inside, a historic beehive illustrates a bee colony and its individual inhabitants... right next to the shelter, you can also get the corresponding stamp for your hiking pass.

On the way to or from Wilseder Berg, you'll pass this beehive and learn about bees and their honey from the heath. There's also a stamping station here.

Very nice hut with logbook, well maintained. Tie-down bars for horses also available. Was a perfect break stop for our hike with two dogs and horse 😊

From a distance it looks like a hut in Africa 🤣 You will find signposts made of large pebbles with writing reminiscent of Sütterlin very often in this area. At least the stones get a job🤓 The Sütterlinschrift, usually simply called Sütterlin, is a basic script developed by Ludwig Sütterlin in 1911 on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Culture and Education for learning cursive writing at school

Nice rest - with a funny guest book

at different distances there are shelters to pause or wait for the rain.

There have been beekeepers with their bees in the Lüneburg Heath since the Middle Ages. The harvest of the regional specialty, the heather honey, is very time-consuming and only limited to the 6-8 weeks of the heather blossom. Then the beekeeper must have a place for his bee colonies in the heathland so that the bees can collect the single-variety heather honey. This tastes completely different than other honeys. The difficulty for the beekeepers is feeding the colonies throughout the summer and the laborious processing of the heather honey. This is a tough mass and not as easy to throw as normal honey. So the bees have a lot of work to do when the heather is in bloom. Incidentally, bees and moorland sheep work together unconsciously: the moorland sheep move across the heathland and trample on the spider nests, which would otherwise pose a danger to the bees. From the end of September you can then buy the new harvest of heather honey from the beekeepers in the Lüneburg Heath. Source: https://www.lueneburger-heide.de/natur/artikel/15338/die-heide-bienen-ernten-den-leckeren-heidehonig.html

Quaintly designed rest area with seating and rain protection