In the strict sense, the building is not a forester's lodge (house and office of a forester, a forester) but a hunting lodge (small house in the forest as accommodation for hunts) called the "Green Hunter".
In the neighborhood is "the island", a historic rampart dating from 1866 with a forest trail.
The "Green Hunter" is a former hunting lodge of the Hesse elector and now serves as a cozy refuge.
"The Island" is a historic rampart dating back to 1866 with a forest trail.
In the net one finds no background information to the "green hunter" and to the "island", therefore I copied here the text of the information board:
"Green Hunter" and "The Island", a hideout and a hunting lodge.
"The Island" in Darlaten:
On 25.6.1866, shortly before the end of the Prussian-Austrian War, a scattered group of royal Prussian soldiers hid in this quickly excavated entrenchment. The group of 230 men and 27 wagons could no longer reach their destination, the main army near Göttingen, as the Prussians controlled the entire area in between.
When the Prussians finally won the war with the Battle of Langensalza and the Kingdom of Hanover became part of Prussia, the group surrendered on June 28, 1866. The defeat meant the end of the Kingdom of Hanover. The since then carefully preserved entrenchment consists of a circular ditch and a small masonry of field stones.