메르크하우젠‬에서 가장 멋진 ‪20‬개의 천연기념물

great cycle path along the Weser

Here at the eastern point you can take a nice shady break

The Hellental valley is a feast for the eyes. Comparable valleys are rare in the Solling region. Everything is wonderfully peaceful here.

a nice place for a break

Who knows where the tip of the hill is? So it's worth going there. It's very beautiful here and a lot has been done to make it that way.

The Hellental valley, stretching from Mecklenbruch in the southwest to the village of Hellental in the northeast, features extensively used grassland in some areas, including remnants of montane mountain meadows, and is one of two representative areas for submontane matgrass meadows in the Weser-Leine Uplands. The near-natural meadow stream "Helle" is bordered by small wet meadows and some riparian woodland. A geological peculiarity is the disappearance of the stream. In some places, the water of the Helle vanishes into a ponor (swallow hole) only to reappear elsewhere. This is caused by the intense tectonic stress on the Muschelkalk limestone that has subsided into this Solling graben, resulting in its highly fractured state. https://www.nlwkn.niedersachsen.de/naturschutzgebiete/naturschutzgebiet-moore-und-walder-im-hochsolling-hellental-43611.html

Great view in the middle of the 555 square kilometer Solling-Vogler Nature Park. In the low mountain range, which consists primarily of red sandstone, there are around thirty mountains, eight of which are over four hundred meters high. The view from the Ebersnacken Tower is even more impressive.

The monument “Easternmost Corner of Westphalia” was inaugurated on Saturday, May 8, 2004. It is the last work of the local curator Heinz Mönkemeyer. Among other things, he had the large memorial with the 15-meter cross built on the Feldberg in 1959. Heinz Mönkemeyer passed away on December 26, 2006 in Stahle near Höxter.