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FAZ went for a hike
October 31, 2026 at 12:45
Nicht alles ist, wie es scheint
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October 27, 2026 at 12:51
Vieles grenzt ans Wundersame
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October 29, 2026
With the former Pope Francis, a head of the church chose the order's founder, Francis of Assisi, as his pontifical name for the first time. Even if it was intended as a sign to remember the Christian understanding of devotion to the impaired, the poor, and the sick, this gesture could not hide the general
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FAZ went for a hike
October 7, 2026 at 12:19
Die Vergangenheit wiederbelebt
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October 15, 2026
35 years ago, Lorsch Abbey in the town of the same name in southern Hesse was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. A great honor for an object of which more of the ideal than the material remained. Therefore, this status was tacitly understood as a mandate to do justice to the entire complex
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FAZ went for a hike
October 5, 2026 at 11:46
Der Stein bestimmt das Burgensein
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October 22, 2026
The history of the rescue and restoration of the Eppstein castle ruins is by now history itself. 200 years ago, private efforts prevented the further demolition of the site, which had been auctioned off for demolition. From 1869 in the hands of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode, the remains were preserved
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FAZ went for a hike
September 30, 2026 at 12:22
Wasserbüffel statt Talsperre
Die „kleinste Stadt Bayerns“ hat Großes zu bieten – stattliche Bürgerhäuser, eine wohlerhaltene Burg und nun auch Wasserbüffel im lange gefährdeten Hafenlohrtal.
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October 8, 2026
An exotic species has populated the German lands for several years – water buffalo. You no longer need to look to Asia or Campania to experience the undemanding animals grazing and enjoying mud baths. The population has grown to around 10,000 nationwide. Bubalus arnee is also present in the Spessart
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FAZ went for a hike
September 25, 2026 at 12:29
Über alle Grenzen hinweg
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October 1, 2026
The Day of German Unity is also a great day for nature. When the modalities of reunification were still being debated in 1990, supra-regional initiatives created facts without much ado for the largest landscape conservation measure in German history. By designating several national and nature parks
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FAZ went for a hike
September 19, 2026 at 12:41
Lahnmarmor ziert die Welt
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September 24, 2026
Some dark brown, others a weak reddish. What fills an entire wall in wire baskets in the Villmar Lahn Marble Museum probably has only limited relevance to the general idea of "marble". It did not undergo processes of high temperatures and pressures, like the famous one from Carrara. Nevertheless, "marble
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FAZ went for a hike
September 12, 2026 at 12:52
Startrampe für das Geisterheer
Er kündet Krieg und Frieden an, der Totenzug Hans von Rodensteins. Unter lautem Getöse geht es hierbei von seinem Stammsitz zur Burg Schnellerts hoch über der Gersprenz. Heute liegt sie, in Grundzügen wiederhergestellt, in tiefster Waldeseinsamkeit oberhalb eines bedeutenden Bergbaugebiets.
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September 17, 2026
Does he come or does he not come? If the laws of the most famous Odenwald legend are to be believed, the weapons might also remain silent in the foreseeable future. After all, the Rodenstein ghost train has not made itself heard for a long time. Doomed to this, Knight Hans von Rodenstein must announce
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FAZ went for a hike
September 6, 2026 at 13:08
Gerundet, verschliffen, geglättet, durchlöchert
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September 10, 2026
Homberg rises, visible from afar, above the Ohm basin. Situated on a basaltic hill on the northwestern foothills of the Vogelsberg, its castle-like appearance and asymmetrical church silhouette give it a distinctive character. Numerous, finely maintained half-timbered houses complete the picture of a
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FAZ went for a hike
August 30, 2026 at 13:21
Erst Kahlschlag, jetzt Welterbe
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September 3, 2026
The Kahlgrund, that graceful landscape on the northwestern edge of the Spessart, shows its most beautiful sides in spring and autumn, when nature unfolds in the form of thousands of fruit trees, first in bloom and now ripening – with the restriction that this season the harvest will be smaller due to
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FAZ went for a hike
August 24, 2026 at 12:57
Wein und Gestein in besonderer Lage
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August 27, 2026
The westernmost showcase of Franconian viticulture is the Bavarian Lower Main. While white grapes predominate in the north near Alzenau on mica schist, further south, thanks to colorful sandstone, it is predominantly red. The uniqueness of Bürgstadt wines was already known in the 12th century, which
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FAZ went for a hike
August 13, 2026 at 13:11
Auf Europas größten Feuerkopf
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August 20, 2026
The Vogelsberg region proudly advertises with the designation "Europe's largest volcano". Contrary to the image of a Hessian Etna, this fire mountain is a peaceful companion. Less because it became extinct millions of years ago. Rather, with its non-explosive mass eruptions from vents and fissures, it
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FAZ went for a hike
August 6, 2026 at 12:06
„Wandermärchen“ im Land der Mythen und Moore
Dank umfassender Renaturierung erhielt der Burgwald seine ursprüngliche Beschaffenheit als geschlossenes Forst- und Feuchtgebiet zurück. Die Schutzmaßnahmen schließen bedeutende Zeugnisse von Kelten und Franken sowie die romanisch-gotische Martinskirche ein.
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August 13, 2026
It is one of the quieter areas in Hessen, the Burgwald northwest of Marburg. Sparsely populated on the fringes, untouched by major traffic routes, it is a place to discover that has retained a piece of its original character. Or, put another way, it returned after agriculture was abandoned. Until the
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FAZ went for a hike
August 2, 2026 at 13:19
Sonntags schweigen die Kanonen
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August 6, 2026
„In the middle of the military training area, which serves as a reminder that the world is still threatened by war, we come to the Queen of Peace.“ This is what the official credo of the pilgrims of Maria Ehrenberg near Motten in the Bavarian Rhön states. Truly, no place of pilgrimage could be more unusual
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FAZ went for a hike
July 26, 2026 at 14:15
Der Vergangenheit ein Schutzraum
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July 30, 2026
One of the oldest cultivated plants is experiencing its rediscovery in recent times with the trend towards health-conscious diets: spelt. Since its nutritional value and the tasty variant green spelt were recognized, it is grown extensively, after it had almost only survived in rather remote regions
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In the eastern Taunus, there are two structures to be discovered that deserve the predicate 'unusual' – measured against the conditions of a region not exactly blessed with remarkable architecture. For a castle like the medieval-historicist one in Kransberg, one finds just as little that is comparable
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