칼스하우젠 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

If the route indicates you should walk along the main road, it's best to follow route sign 6. This way, you'll walk safely along a beautiful path with stunning views.

Always impressive and shocking how many people died in the two world wars. Puristically poignant complex with a pieta in the middle.

As memorials to the countless war dead, such sites – usually referred to as "war cemeteries" or "military cemeteries" – remain very important to this day. "Now, Lord, you let your servant depart in peace, as you have said...", says the so-called "Hymn of Simeon" (Luke 2:29). However, the many people buried here did not depart in peace, but rather became victims of war and an inhumane tyranny. The most important and at the same time perpetual function of military cemeteries, honorary cemeteries, or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and to remind each generation anew (!) of the need to maintain lasting peace.

Unfortunately you can only see it from the outside because there is a fence around it

At the power mill there is a campsite and a hotel with a restaurant. According to the website of the operator, the mill itself was originally a Lohmühle. The first written mention should go back to the 17th century. Lohmühlen were used at that time, in order to win the tanning material needed for leather tanning. With the help of the mill tannery-containing oak bark (= Lohe) was crushed. The raw material was won in so-called "Luhhecken" (Lohhecken). These were oak forests, which were managed in the Nierderwaldbetrieb to this end.

Meanwhile, the honorary cemetery is still the largest in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The hotel and restaurant "Machtemesmühle" is secluded in the Irsental. For decades there is also a campsite with many permanent campers. Also for many years, the former mill in the summer months and especially on the weekends in spring and early summer is a popular (motorcycle) Bikertreff. The mill itself is certainly very old. Unfortunately, I have no further information right now.

The cemetery is designed as a circular grave site and is located at the highest elevation of the site. When it was inaugurated in 1959, it was still the largest military cemetery in the Federal Republic of Germany.