The best cycling routes around Flörsheim

It's best to endure the heat in the forest.

The „Poet's House“ stands on a small hill.

The weir you see down there primarily serves to regulate the water level and protect the adjacent areas of Hattersheim and Eddersheim from flooding. The Ardelgraben collects surface water from the higher-lying areas (such as from the A66 and from the direction of Diedenbergen/Hofheim) and directs it towards the Main. The weir ensures that the water flow is controlled so that the stream does not overflow its banks uncontrollably during heavy rain. At the same time, it prevents Main water from being pushed back into the drainage system and thus into the city districts during floods of the Main. In recent years, the area around the Ardelgraben has also been ecologically upgraded. The goal is to make the formerly very artificially created ditch (which was partly a pure concrete channel in the past) more natural again. This also includes so-called continuity: in many places in Hattersheim, old weirs or drops are being rebuilt so that fish and small aquatic organisms can migrate upstream again.

Origin: It comes from the former Hoechst AG dye works (known as the "Red Factory"). Location: It stands in the orchard in Hattersheim, a site within the Rhine-Main Regional Park. Function: The machine was formerly used in the chemical industry to mix pigments and dyes on a large scale. Symbolism: As a technical monument on the Industrial Heritage Trail, it commemorates the importance of the chemical industry to the region. Special Feature: It forms a deliberate visual contrast between massive industrial technology and the surrounding natural landscape of the orchards.

The Regional Park Tower is a 41-meter-high observation tower located near the visitor center of the Regional Park Portal at the Weilbach gravel pits, northeast of Weilbach in the Main-Taunus district of Hesse. In addition to the Regional Park Portal for the Rhine-Main Regional Park, which opened in 2011, the planning also included the construction of a highly visible landmark directly related to the Regional Park and its focus on nature. Thus, in 2012, the Regional Park Tower was erected according to the plans of architect Peter Karle. Its overall form is designed as a large sculpture, intended to evoke associations and interpretations of natural forms in the viewer, such as a blossom or a bud. The €500,000 project, which was even dubbed the "Tower of Evil" in advance due to the involvement of the Fraport Foundation,[1] was to be financed by Regionalpark-Pilot GmbH (€160,000), Regionalpark Ballungsraum GmbH (€170,000), the State of Hesse (€102,000), and Fraport AG (€68,000). In 2013, the Wiesbaden chapter of the Association of German Architects (BDA) awarded the Regionalpark Tower the Johann Wilhelm Lehr Plaque for outstanding architecture in Hesse.

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From this position you have a great view of the landscape-defining work of art.

The sculpture "The Circle" opens to the east, towards the light. Sculptor Thomas Link defines this direction by the axis from the sound stele in the center of the circle to the pair of steles outside. These cast long shadows, with a bright line at their center. The sound stele opposite opens to the wind, transforming the moving air into sound. The panoramic trail is part of the regional park's circular route and connects the Bad Weilbach park with the wine village of Wicker over a distance of almost 1.5 kilometers. On clear days, the view extends as far as the Odenwald forest. In the Middle Ages, the "Kasteler Landwehr," the border and defensive fortification protecting the territory of the Electorate of Mainz, ran along this route. In the summer of 1998, five artists created five large stone sculptures along the panoramic trail. The regional park society invited not only Thomas Link from Issing near Munich, who created the circle of stones from basalt, to this plein air sculpture symposium. Hubert Maier, Gerard Höweler, Georg Hüter, and Ingrid Hornef also used the six-week project period to create charismatic works. The goal of the international open-air artists' workshop was not only to enhance the inspiring surroundings with monumental objects. The public also had the opportunity to engage in conversation with the artists during the creative process. This participation and understanding of the artists' thoughts during the creation of the objects ensured the project's great success. Link, for example, explains: "What the eye sees in the surroundings—the movement of grasses and leaves—is simultaneously experienced by the viewer as a sound that swells and recedes with the breath of the wind." The spheres rest around a central point. They bear semi-circular depressions, whose positions indicate directions in space. "This sphere is dedicated to the earth, to the interplay of darkness and incoming light." Each sphere is part of the whole and yet stands alone. Beyond this, the view extends into the landscape, changing from place to place in a circular pattern. “The stones rest, gathered around the center,” they point to direction and space: “Into this structure, humankind enters and finds its place.” None of the stones, not even those of the other artists, are placed by chance along the path. All reflect the landscape in which and for which they were created. It is about knowledge and feeling, about culture and nature, about noise (including aircraft noise) and silence, about the hustle and bustle of life and about finding peace. [The following appears to be a separate, unrelated sentence fragment:] [The following appears to be a separate, unrelated sentence fragment:] [The following appears to be a separate, unrelated sentence fragment:] [The following appears to be a separate, unrelated sentence fragment:] None of the stones, not even those of the other artists, are placed by chance along the path. All of them reflect the landscape in which and for which they were created. It is about knowledge and feeling, about culture and nature, about noise (including aircraft noise) and silence, about hurried life and about finding peace. [The following appears to be a separate, unrelated sentence fragment:] ...