Leyberg Summit Trail – View from Leyberg loop from Vettelschoß

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Leyberg Summit Trail – View from Leyberg loop from Vettelschoß

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Leyberg Summit Trail – View from Leyberg loop from Vettelschoß

03:41

13.5km

200m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Naturpark Rhein-Westerwald

Naturpark Siebengebirge

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.37 km

Asberg

Highlight • Summit

beautiful summit with a cross, "summit book" and beautiful view

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2.73 km

Asberg Summit Cross and Viewpoint

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The name Asberg - locally formerly "Ahsberg", in the cadastre Aasberg - is derived from "Asc" (= ash) and may not originally have referred to the mountain, but to the …

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3.84 km

Alter Steinbruch Pond

Highlight • Lake

A nice place for a picnic

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6.18 km

Pferdsgalgen Cross

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The horse gallows cross is a commemorative cross, which reminds of a Swedish soldier on the trunk of an imposing beech since the year 1631, which is said to have killed exactly here.

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8.08 km

Leyberg Summit Trail

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A stair-like ascent has been created through the basalt rubble surrounding the summit. Nothing for smooth soles

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8.10 km

The view from Leyberg (359 m) in the Siebengebirge offers one of the most spectacular panoramas of the Rhine Valley greenskyonline.com.co Drachenfels, Petersberg, and even the distant Eifel mountains.

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8.30 km

Turnoff to Leyberg Summit

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It is only 300 meters from here to the summit of the 358 meter high Leyberg, but it is a challenge. Here you have the last opportunity to take a …

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9.58 km

Landwehr

Archaeological Site

13.2 km

Little Britain Hotel & Event Venue, Kalenborn

Highlight • Structure

The private exhibition had to move. Only the tank is still on the old site, but it is painted. The exhibits are now in Kalenborn opposite the train station in a themed hotel and in an event location.

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13.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.9 km

1.35 km

844 m

360 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

9.05 km

1.57 km

1.13 km

958 m

756 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (400 m)

Lowest point (270 m)

Weather

Thursday 15 October

22°C

9°C

27 %

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Comments

April 2, 2023,Asberg -Leyberg - Auge Gottes

Only my husband enjoyed the view from the Leyberg. The last part was too steep for me. The fear of heights has won.

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January 1, 2022,220101 Vettelschoß-Kalenborn - (Frohes Neues!) Runde um den Asberg, Leyberg und Auge Gottes

Today we go to an area practically unknown to us: We go to the Niederwesterwald, more precisely to Vettelschoss and there even more precisely to the district of Kalenborn.

The path leads straight to the Asberg, a 430 meter high mountain from the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge and along there in a north-northwest direction past the Walther-Lauffs-Hütte, before we turn west …

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March 16, 2025,Kalenborn 🥯🫖 Little Britain

A nice family tour, but the route was too monotonous.

Little Britain, on the other hand, was really great 😃
What a great idea to set everything up with a British flair.
@Selma Thanks for the tip 👍

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