On the one hand, the name "Black Man" is derived from wooden scaffolding, which served the Napoleonic surveyors as orientation and reference points and later became crooked due to decay …
This stone is a typical long stone or menhir. Such stones were generally known in the Eifel as "Weisenstein" (derived from "indicate"). They come from the most distant past and …
Here at the edge of the forest there is a beautiful view of the villages of Halenfeld and Oberlascheid as well as a magnificent overview of the Eifel mountains! 😎