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Information path Wildly romantic Urfftal - at the bottom of a primeval sea

At a glance

  • Start: Urfftal hiking car park, (Bad Zwesten)
  • Goal: Urfftal hiking car park, (Bad Zwesten)
  • light
  • 11,53 km
  • 3 hrs 25 mins
  • 235 m
  • 424 m
  • 256 m
  • 60 / 100
  • 20 / 100

Best Season

Route 1 "Infoweg Wildromantisches Urfftal" follows the Urff, accompanied by alder forests, through the wildly romantic Märzenbechertal.

Over thousands of years, the stream has cut deep into layers of rock that were created 400 million years ago at the bottom of an ancient sea or ejected by volcanoes. Rock formations made of limestone, slate, quartzite and diabase are exposed. These include the hiking cliff on the Orthberg made of Kellerwald quartzite and a limestone band. The Kellerwald Agate, an iron pebble, is available from the gemstone cutting shop in Bergfreiheit.

path coverings

  • Unknown (9%)
  • Street (6%)
  • gravel (55%)
  • hiking trail (30%)

Weather

route

Urfftal hiking car park

Bad Zwesten

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Bergfreiheit visitor mine

Bad Wildungen

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Mine hiking car park

Bad Wildungen

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