쉬운 휘르트겐발트 주변 하이킹 및 워킹 코스

Waldbach on the way to the reservoir

Here are popular trails and hiking routes in and around the Schlangenberg Nature Reserve (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), including various options in terms of distance and difficulty: 🌲 1. Schlangenberg Nature Reserve – circular routes • Circular route from Vicht: ±7.9 km, approx. 2 hours 10 minutes, intermediate level. Beautiful trails through the reserve with slight elevation changes. • Circular route from Zweifall: ±9.9 km, approx. 2 hours 40 minutes, intermediate level. Longer walk with views of streams, ponds, and forest landscape. • Vichter forest path – shorter loop: ±5.6 km, easy to walk, suitable for a relaxing stroll. 👉 These routes partly run on well-maintained unpaved paths and gravel paths that wind through the natural surroundings. 🌼 2. Breinig Walk (BR2) • Breinig Loop BR2: ±6.9 km, average difficulty. Beautiful loop through the reserve and surrounding nature with slight elevation changes. 🌳 3. Small Forest Loop • Small forest walk near Schlangenberg: ±1.8 km (1.1 miles), easy and ideal for a short nature walk, suitable for everyone and a lovely half-hour to an hour's walk. 📍 Hiking Tips ✔ The trails in the Schlangenberg nature reserve are generally marked and easily accessible, with both short and longer options. ✔ If you want to follow the exact route, check GPX tracks or maps beforehand via hiking websites/apps like Komoot or RouteYou. ✔ Because Schlangenberg is located in a protected nature reserve (Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel), it is important to stay on the paths and follow any rules.

The Schlangenberg is a unique section of the Copper Route, where walking is not only a journey through the landscape but also through history. As the path winds slowly across the open slopes, you literally walk on soil shaped by centuries of mining. It is precisely this industrial legacy that has created a unique nature reserve here. The Schlangenberg is best known for its rare calamine flora, a plant world adapted to soils with high concentrations of heavy metals. Along the Copper Route, you will see how this delicate vegetation gives the terrain its own unique character: low-growing vegetation, subtle colors, and a strikingly open landscape that contrasts sharply with the surrounding forests. During the flowering season, small, specialized plants color the slopes and illustrate why this area is strictly protected. The route itself is peaceful and uncluttered, with wide views of the Eifel foothills and Stolberg in the distance. The absence of tall vegetation creates an almost rugged, steppe-like feel, where wind and light have free rein. Information signs along the way connect nature and mining, adding depth to the walk. The Schlangenberg on the Copper Route isn't a place for spectacle, but for attention. A section where you slow down and appreciate how nature manages to survive even under extreme conditions, making it one of the route's most distinctive sections.

Walking map and information boards of the area in which you are located.

Very nice area for hiking.

I still find it amazing that these bunkers are still so well preserved after all these years. The writing on the exterior of many of them is still visible. The Buhlert is definitely worth a visit.

Well preserved and located almost directly on the hiking trail

beautiful shady trail running, hiking route