Baybachklamm Caves – Baybachklamm Waterfall loop from Heyweiler

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Baybachklamm Caves – Baybachklamm Waterfall loop from Heyweiler

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Baybachklamm Caves – Baybachklamm Waterfall loop from Heyweiler

06:52

23.1km

600m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very good fitness required. Sure-footedness, sturdy shoes and alpine experience required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 27, 2026

Tips

Includes segments that may be dangerous

Parts of this route comprise highly technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience is required.

After 3.78 km for 21 m

After 6.69 km for 12 m

After 6.90 km for 263 m

After 20.1 km for 263 m

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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3.13 km

Klöckners Kaul slate mine tunnel and rest area

Highlight • Cave

A beautiful and totally lovingly designed rest area.

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4.46 km

Hiking trail along the Baybach

Highlight • Trail

A beautiful cool valley, the path by the water, with short climbing sections.

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4.76 km

Baybachtal Bat Cave (Slate Tunnel)

Highlight • Cave

In the past, several roof slate pits were operated in the Baybachtal, below the Schmausemühle you can still find spoil heaps and tunnel entrances that were driven a few hundred …

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4.77 km

Baybachklamm Caves

Highlight • Cave

Lead ore and slate were extracted in some of the tunnels. In the caves and old tunnels, the residents took shelter during the bombing of the Second World War. Peter …

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5.33 km

Baybachklamm Waterfall

Highlight (Segment) • Waterfall

In some places the Baybach's notch valley is only very narrowly cut through the slate rocks, so that the path following the stream has to overcome some rocky passages and is secured there with ropes.

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6.78 km

Climbing section in the Baybach Gorge

Highlight • Climb

Nice dream loop with individual short climbing passages.
Wire ropes are available to help where you have to "climb" a bit. Not a via ferrata in the sense that you need via ferrata equipment!

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8.30 km

(R.) Hüttengeorgen-M.

Ruins

9.09 km

Viewpoint

23.1 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

11.6 km

9.08 km

2.07 km

356 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

9.91 km

5.74 km

4.14 km

1.70 km

1.42 km

212 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (390 m)

Lowest point (210 m)

Weather

Thursday 8 October

11°C

6°C

91 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 29.0 km/h

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Comments

August 17, 2024,089 Traumschleife Baybachklamm

Today we wanted to explore the Baybachklamm🌊🪨 and thus also our 1️⃣. dream loop📄. The starting point was our parking space🚐 in the nearby village🏘️ of Sevenich, a district of the local community of Beltheim in the middle of the low mountain range of the Hunsrück in the collective municipality of Kastellaun in the Rhein-Hunsrück district. From there it was …

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October 6, 2024,Heyweiler Bauernmühle – Wasserfall Baybachtal Runde von Dorweiler

Beautiful tour, the short climb to Rabenlay is worth it. A nice place to take a break.
The tour is easy for children.

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October 6, 2023,Traumschleife Baybachklamm erweitert +Zusammenfluß Mühlenbach/Baybach + Ausblick Rabenley

I extended the original Baybachklamm dream loop a little further along the stream to the Rabenley viewpoint, along the section of the Rabenley dream loop. A circular route from Rabenley Lookout is not possible because the path no longer exists (I tried it today at the beginning of October 2023).
Very nice cooling shade loop with some nice views and …

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