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"Mossy Hollow" in the context of the Bergisches Land region does not refer to a real place, landmark, or café of that name. Instead, it refers to: Nightingale – Murder in the Mossy Hollow Lodge: a cozy crime novel set in the "Mossy Hollow Lodge." The author, Christine Brandt, lives in the Bergisches Land, which explains the connection between the fictional name and the region.

A relic from a bygone era. What looks like a tall chair for giants is actually a built-in resting place for farmers who used to bring their grain in sacks to the mill in Herrenstein, rest here, and put the sack down on the "chair," thus relieving their shoulders and backs.

<< Ruppichteroth Iron Age >> By Nicolas Ottersbach | January 3, 2020 | Magazine "When mining began in Ruppichteroth is no longer known exactly. But its significance for the town is known. A sign at the roundabout in Ruppichteroth, right next to the former Juliusstollen, now provides information about this. Photos: The Juliusstollen from the inside and the inauguration of the information board [Klaus Steglich] You really have to look for it, the Juliusstollen. And that's despite being located in the middle of town. Hidden by trees and greenery, beneath meters of thick rock, it burrows more than 450 meters into the mountain at the roundabout in Ruppichteroth. Anyone trying to enter it faces a locked gate. It has long been inaccessible to visitors; after a few meters, a wall and a water pump block the way. This is where the underground water streams arrive and are then pumped to the waterworks. How difficult must it have been back then to control the masses of water?..." MORE INFORMATION ON: - Prosperity and Decline - Mining shaped the Landscape - Promoting the Land 👉 https://www.broeltal.de/nachrichten/artikel/ruppichterother-eisenzeit.html

<< Why the Burgplatz is called Burgplatz >> "Like so many other places in Germany (e.g., Düsseldorf, Essen, Leipzig), Ruppichteroth also has a square called Burgplatz. The origin of the name is almost always the fact that it was a square near/in front of/behind/next to/inside the castle complex. Many years ago, the late Alois Müller (inventor and builder of the Bergische Heimatkrippe (Bergisch Homeland Nativity Scene) as well as builder of the models of the Schönenberger Town Hall, Herrnstein Castle, and the Ruppichteroth Synagogue) considered what a castle in Ruppichteroth might have looked like. Research in various sources on Ruppichteroth's local history shows that a castle (as defined by the Duden dictionary: "fortified residential and defensive structure of medieval feudal lords") never existed here. So where does the name come from? ... " CONTINUATION and MORE INFORMATION: https://www.bilderbuch-ruppichteroth.de/orte/ruppichteroth/strassen-gewerbeentwicklung/warum-der-burgplatz-burgplatz-heisst.html

The Catholic parish church of St. Severin on Burgstrasse is worth seeing. Its Romanesque west tower, built of rubble masonry as early as the 12th century, is also worth a detour to the Protestant village church, dating from 1683.

for Easter the decorated fountain opposite the church

Very bad road conditions. Swampy, fallen trees block the way