Gnarled old beech trees make this Hutewald near the village of Albertshausen a unique cultural and natural monument.
With its around 190 beech trees between 200 and 300 years old on an area of 3,4 hectares, the Halloh is one of the most important Hutewald stands in Hesse and has been a protected natural monument since 1985. In the past, pigs were mainly kept here.
The Halloh is particularly worth seeing because of its unique tree shapes in various stages of decay, which provide a habitat for numerous animal and plant species as well as fungi, but which are also visited by people as a recreational area (forest bathing). In addition, the clinics in Reinhardshausen also use the special power and energy of this forest for therapeutic purposes.
Hat forests is the name given to a form of livestock and pasture farming from the past, in which the animals were driven into the forest to fatten beechnuts or acorns. Through browsing and the eating of young shoots, but also through the harvesting of leaves as stable fodder, typical landscape images have been created with rustic, overgrown, often isolated old trees.
