- Culturally interesting
- Refreshment stop
Heed hiking parking lot
Stoltenberg hiking parking lot
Enjoy nature and discover the most beautiful corners of Meinerzhagen on foot: our "Wanderbares M" stage tour offers all of this. The approximately 50 km long hike, divided into 4 (half) day stages, leads in the shape of an "M" past the Wasserschloß Badinghagen, the Meinhardus Mattenschanzen (the landmark of Meinerzhagen), the Fürwiggetalsperre and through the Quellental and the Ebbemoore to the heights of the Ebbegebirge and the Nordhelle (663 m above sea level).
The route then continues down the valley past the Knochenmühle mill and the St. Maria Magdalena chapel (Grotewiese) to the idyllic Listertalsperre dam. If you still haven't had enough, you can discover further highlights on one of the numerous circular trails following the "Wanderbare M". At some points along the route, you can listen to exciting legends from the "magical world of legends at the top of the Volme".
The tour runs along marked hiking trails and is also marked with a white "M" on a blue-green striped circle.
Stage 1: Heed hiking parking lot - Stoltenberg hiking parking lot (xyz km)We start at the Heed hiking parking lot in the south of Meinerzhagen and follow the A1 signposts. This is also the start of the Wald-Aktiv-Pfad, a great loop around the Heedberg. After a short time, we reach the witches' oak with its legendary place, whereupon we soon turn left and follow the markings for the Sauerland-Höhenflug circular trail (white H on a blue background). We cross a road, pass the Wasserschloß Badinghagen and finally reach the Schallershaus hiking parking lot uphill with a fantastic view of the Meinhardus Mattenschanzen. Incidentally, this is also the entrance to the Sauerland-Höhenflug quality long-distance hiking trail and a legendary place of the "Magical world of legends at the top of the Volme" with a wooden shepherd figure.Here you also have the option of either walking the Meinerzhagen town walk or the complete circular route along the Sauerland-Höhenflug "Vom Wasser haben wir's gelernt) as an additional circular tour.From here, we now follow the sign of the triangle pointing to the right. To reach the Fritz-Paulmann-Weg, we follow the path that leads us over a pedestrian island to the other side of the road. On asphalt, along the edge of the town, we soon come to the Volmequelle. Continuing along the small road, the path crosses the country road again. Here we keep left, cross two bridges and reach the small district of Willertshagen, where we reach the end of the first stage, the Stoltenberg hiking parking lot. There is another legendary place here.
Circular tours along the way:
- RUNDweg along the Sauerland Höhenflug
- City walk,
- WaldAktivPfad,
Heed parking lot - entry point for stage 1
Hiking parking lot Stoltenberg - entry point stage 2
Quellental hiking parking lot - starting point for stage 3
Windebruch parking lot - end point (or starting point if you walk the route the other way round)