アレンラートの天然記念物・トップ20

For the sulfur spring, see e.g. https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=1720

Beautiful and wildly romantic, too bad there's no waterfall because of the drought...can someone turn on the tap? 😉

The path was restored and reopened in September 2023.

Looking for a waterfall with a high viaduct, passable for buses in the Eifel!

Completely dried up in the summer of 2023 and partly very destroyed by the flood 2 years ago. But you can still walk the path well. You should be sure-footed and not afraid of heights. Not recommended with small children and anxious dogs. (if someone comes towards you, you don't always have space to avoid) If you like rocks, you'll like it without water!

Update September 2023: Tanzlay hiking trail has been reopened. In addition, a bridge that was washed away in 2021 was rebuilt down by the river, so that you can do a nice circular hike of 8-10 km. Condition report from February no longer applies (except no water, still damp) Almost no water in February, but still a bit muddy. Descent from the waterfall is rather very difficult. Impressive and interesting in places. I would not recommend it as a hiking route.

The CO2 springs are classified as simple acid springs. The gas, carbonic acid dissolved in water, rises through the cracks in the fault line and partially dissolves in the groundwater at a shallow depth. The now slightly acidic water dissolves mineral compounds from the rock it flows through, which settle on the earth's surface as spring sediment. The mineral springs around Heckenmünster have a high iron content, which results from the fact that in the subsurface of the spring areas, at a depth of approximately 10-20 m, there is a red iron horizon through which the springs flow. The springs generally produce extremely low water flow, between 1 and 3 liters per minute. The Viktoria spring in Heckenmünster was used commercially around the turn of the century; between 1880 and 1900, approximately 50,000 bottles of mineral water were bottled annually. In the immediate vicinity of the spring, you can still find many pieces of glass and broken bottles that were broken or discarded at the time. Source: Eifel.info

Unfortunately no drinking water for the bottle. But in an idyllic location.