Mooshütte Forest Inn – Mooshütte Deister loop from Samtgemeinde Rodenberg

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Mooshütte Forest Inn – Mooshütte Deister loop from Samtgemeinde Rodenberg

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Mooshütte Forest Inn – Mooshütte Deister loop from Samtgemeinde Rodenberg

03:25

11.5km

340m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: November 3, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

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Naturpark Weserbergland

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

Get Directions

45 m

Feggendorfer Stolln Trailhead

Highlight • Parking

You actually have to drive over the landscape protection sign at the edge of the forest and then get to this small parking lot for hikers. A hiking map provides orientation and there is information about the surrounding area and especially about the Feggendorfer Stolln.

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4.98 km

Mooshütte Forest Inn

Highlight • Mountain Hut

Very nice inn with a rustic atmosphere. The food tastes good. Since May 1st, 2016 there has also been a stamping point for the Deister hiking badge here. The hiking pass is available free of charge in the Mooshütte.

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4.99 km

Mooshütte Deister

Highlight • Restaurant

Originally, where the Mooshütte is today, there was a shelter made of sticks and moss, next to a small pond that was fed by the Hessian spring.

As early as 1895, the innkeeper of the Königseiche in Bantorf, Fritz Hecht, had been running the restaurant at the spring with a horse and cart, and only when the weather was good.

In 1924, Fritz Hecht had the building of today's Mooshütte built, but it only contained a bar and a kitchen and was only later converted to residential use.

In 1940, an ice and storage cellar was built into the mountain behind the Mooshütte, which always had the same temperature in summer and winter.

In 1951, the steel construction company Preussag began emergency mining facilities around the Mooshütte.

In 1954, the hall was added to the left of the building. Five years later, the Mooshütte was taken over by the daughter of the innkeeper Friedolf Hecht and her family, the Watermann family, who continued to expand the Mooshütte. After mining ceased in 1960, the Watermann family had the washhouse converted into a guest house.
In October 1998, the Mooshütte was purchased by the Flügge family from Schmarrie, who had been interested in the building for some time and were in negotiations with the previous owner. They immediately set about renovating the property.
On May 1, 1999, the Mooshütte opened its doors as a restaurant for day trippers and hikers. Since then, the Mooshütte has once again enjoyed its traditionally lively popularity.
In the 2000s, further extensive renovations took place. There were new extensions and further redesigns.
Source: mooshuette.de/#hi

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5.67 km

Enchanted Beech Forest in the Deister

Highlight • Forest

Mystical forest with many beautiful places

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7.59 km

World signpost in the Deister

Highlight • Monument

The signpost shows the distance to different places - including Haiti, Paris, Mallorca, but also the Devil's Bridge is signposted. There is also a bank here where you can take a break.

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7.71 km

Devil's Bridge Forest Inn

Highlight • Restaurant

For almost one hundred years the restaurant "Teufelsbrücke" near Rodenberg has been attracting recreation seekers. According to legend, in this narrow ravine Satan had helped the hunter Dagobert recover a hunted deer. When the man later bragged about his experiences with friends, he exclaimed, "The devil should fetch me, if that is not true." And promptly, the man vanished through the open window under firelight and hisses. A chapel in the small room under the platform is reminiscent of a refuge already built in 1889.
Quaint, small trip local.

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10.9 km

Rodenberger Höhenweg

Highlight • Trail

Part of the path is muddy

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11.2 km

Bench With View of Feggendorf, Süntel, and Bückeberge

Highlight • Viewpoint

Nice view to the left of Feggendorf, behind it the Süntel and opposite to the Bückeberge.

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11.5 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.31 km

3.19 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

6.93 km

4.24 km

248 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (330 m)

Lowest point (160 m)

Weather

Sunday 8 November

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Comments

August 16, 2023,Mooshütte – Belvedereturm Runde von Feggendorf

Nothing special today. Small round through the Deister from Feggendorf with a stopover at the Mooshütte to eat a schnitzel

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November 23, 2025,🚶‍♂️Deister Power Walk Nr. 33🚶‍♂️‍➡️

There was quite a lot going on at the Mooshütte today 🏡. Cars 🚗🚗 were parked all along the roadside, stretching far down the hill. Of course, I got a prime parking spot, since I was running late and quite a few people were already heading home... 😁

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