© Heinrich Kowalski, Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

Schlossberg circular route 2 - around the pulpit

At a glance

  • Start: Schlossberg hiking car park (Schloss Waldeck visitor car park)
  • Goal: Schlossberg hiking car park (Schloss Waldeck visitor car park)
  • medium
  • 9,10 km
  • 3 hrs 15 mins
  • 384 m
  • 393 m
  • 244 m
  • 100 / 100
  • 40 / 100

Best Season

Highlight tour on the steep slopes of the Edersee: past Waldeck Castle, the viewpoints of the Pulpit, to the Edertalsperre and back again

Route 2 follows the Urwaldsteig past old city walls with a view of Lake Edersee. Through rustic stunted beech forests on the Ziegenberg, you follow winding paths along the steep slope to the pulpit. There is a magnificent view of the Edersee and castle as well as the impressive dam wall a little further on.

path coverings

  • Unknown (2%)
  • Street (14%)
  • Asphalt (8%)
  • gravel (4%)
  • hiking trail (40%)
  • Path (32%)

Weather

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Waldeck Castle

Waldeck

© Heinrich Kowalski, Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

Restaurant Altane Schloss Waldeck

Waldeck

© Hotel Schloss Waldeck, Edersee | Your region: wild, colorful, healthy.

Schlossberg hiking car park

Waldeck

© Karuna Eckel, Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

The Edersee dam – a giant from the imperial era

Edertal

© Johanna Langer, Edersee | Your region: wild, colourful, healthy.

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