ドレイスの天然記念物・トップ20

Trail up to the cross, then a final sprint and then back down the wide path with the great view. Fun! 🌄🏃‍♂️📯

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

At first glance it looks like a waterfall. On closer inspection you can see that it is rubble. Very impressive.

A fantastic view from the Moselle cycle path

Great to ride up on a mountain bike. But it's better to push the last 10m

The volcanic cone was formed 108 million years ago. Magma penetrated the Devonian sandstone layers and solidified below the earth's surface. This passage or chimney made of hard basalt protected the surrounding sandstone from erosion, leaving the conical shape of the Neuerburger Kopf, which is still clearly visible today. Classified as belonging to the Cretaceous period, the Neuerburger Kopf and the neighboring Lüxeberg are the oldest volcanic features in the Eifel. The Neuerburger Kopf was formerly called Merkuriusberg (Mercurius, Roman god of trade). The former name is explained by the Roman trade and military roads that crossed next to it. The current name refers to a castle. Archbishop Albero (1131-1152) had a "novum castrum" (= new castle) built, which was completed in 1168 by Archbishop Hillin and expanded by Archbishop Henry II (1260-1286). The castle was used primarily to collect customs duties on the neighboring trade route and was one of the seven castles of the Electorate of Trier, along with Manderscheid, Arras, Saarburg, Grimburg, Welschbillig and Ehrenbreitstein. The last inhabitants of Hatzdorf, which had been ravaged by the plague and abandoned, settled under the protection of the castle and founded the village of Neuerburg. Neuerburg Castle was most likely destroyed in 1689 by the French Marshal François de Créquy, who also had Wittlich destroyed from Mont Royal. Today only a few remains of the walls can be found.

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

Imposing rock face, the dimensions of which only really become clear when you see how hikers are walking in it.