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Beautiful trail to the Scheuelberg (382 meters).

Beautiful orchard with bee hotel and rest bench on the Ottilienberg

Artificially created forest pond in a beautiful forest location, which was created in 1989 as part of the children's holiday program. In addition to an information board, there is a seating area and a small wooden bridge.

The rest area with table and benches invites you to take a snack break.

The way up to Ottilienberg leads along a small steep path.

A new consecration and thus a new building of the chapel is recorded from the period around 1462/65. It probably consisted of the present choir with the beautiful star vault and the tower with antechamber and sacristy extension. A few years later, the current ruined nave was probably added. From earlier times, a "forest brother" or hermit is believed to have lived in the building next to the chapel. During the Reformation, all the sculptures were destroyed and the chapel closed. The "forest brother" became a "forest servant". The chapel survived the Thirty Years' War unscathed. In connection with the expansion of the Eppingen lines in 1695 - 1697, the chapel tower was given the function of a charter and was raised. In the 18th century, pilgrimages to the chapel ruins were again made from Eppingen. In 1771, the chapel was still completely intact, but without a roof. Due to agricultural use, the nave was demolished in the 19th century, except for a remnant in the west. In the last days of the war in 1945, the property next to the chapel was destroyed and the chapel was set on fire. In 1955, the city undertook extensive renovation and restoration of the chapel ruins. (Source: www.kath-eppingen.de)

Many insects, birds and lizards are at home here.

Once a month, the German Alpine Association, Eppingen district group, opens and manages the Ottilienberg tower. When the weather is good, you have an excellent panoramic view of the Kraichgau, the Black Forest, the Steinsberg, the Palatinate Forest and sometimes you can even see the Vosges. Dates: Every first Sunday of the month from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. - except in December, the tower opens on December 13, the memorial day of Saint Ottilia.