Hiking in Germany A Black Forest Hike The Black Forest offers varied hiking trails to those going hiking in Germany. This is one of them. Laurel tells us about one she did. A guest post by Laurel Robbins This Black Forest hike is a circuit hike near Freiburg in the southern Black Forest that leads…
Hiking in Germany Oktoberfest and Easy Hiking Altmuehltal-Panoramaweg Trail 200 km in 10 stages from Gunzenhausen to Kelheim, an east-west stretch between Nuremberg and Munich (home of the Oktoberfest) in Bavaria, the southeastern corner of Germany. The western half of the hiking trail (the five stages west of Eichstätt) is easily accessible by train. The…
Hiking in Germany Hiking Eifelsteig Trail In 2008, sections of several older German hiking trails through the rural and underdeveloped Eifel region (southwest of Cologne, near the German-Belgian border) were patched together to form the continuous Eifelsteig: 300 km, divided into 15 stages, from Aachen to Trier. Profile The Eifel is different from other easy…
Hiking in Germany Hiking the Siebengebirge or Seven Mountains Range The Siebengebirge, the “Seven Mountains Range”, is said to have been the place where Siegfried – the hero of the Nibelungenlied and Wagner’s Ring cycle – learned the Art of Warcraft from the treacherous Mime and where he eventually slayed the dragon. It is…
This is a guest contribution from Amalia, a young Romanian girl who discovered a “liking for hiking” in Germany while studying in the city of Freiburg. This is the story of a trip where she got more hiking than she actually bargained for. The Black Forest Gateway in Oppenau If you are a beginner or…
Hiking in Germany Rennsteig – Germany’s Oldest Hiking Trail The Rennsteig The Trail Rennsteig: 169 km along the ridge of the Thuringian Forest, from Hörschel in the North to Blankenstein in the South. Profile TheRennsteig is the oldest of all German hiking trails. There is apparently a document from 1330 which mentions a Thuringian rynnestig,…
Hermannshöhen -two old hiking trails Eggeweg and Hermannsweg knocked together to establish a single easy hiking trail in Northwest Germany.
Hiking in Germany The Black Forest Westweg The Trail Westweg: 13 stages and 280 km through theBlack Forest, from Pforzheim in the North to the Swiss city of Basel in the South. Profile The Black Forest is the most famous of all German Mittelgebirge (literally “mountains of medium size”), the country’s sub-Alpine mountain ranges. It is…
Let’s have a hiking photo blog, said Mrs Easy Hiker. It was only when I had such a hard time finding anything halfway decent in our archive of our easy hiking in Germany that I realized how poor the photographs are that we actually have or, put differently, how few of them are actually good…