Old Rest Area Gazebo – Söhrewald Transmitter loop from Söhrewald

Hiking trails & Routes

Germany

Hesse

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Landkreis Kassel

Söhrewald

Old Rest Area Gazebo – Söhrewald Transmitter loop from Söhrewald

Moderate

4.7

(35)

hikers

Old Rest Area Gazebo – Söhrewald Transmitter loop from Söhrewald

02:01

7.51km

100m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through a protected area

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Geo-Naturpark Frau-Holle-Land

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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2.93 km

View of Kassel and the Herkules Monument

Highlight (Segment) • Viewpoint

This part of the path is newly gravel and is therefore not suitable for prams and wheelchair users.

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4.33 km

Mini waterfall

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A mini waterfall just before the refuge 😄

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5.71 km

Signpost Eschenstruth - Wellerode - Wattenbach

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Nice tower with multiple platforms.

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6.92 km

Franzosentriesch with Gleisdreieck refuge

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A somewhat overgrown refuge, but clean inside. It's in French. After the Battle of Wilhelmsthal, French troops are said to have rested here in 1762.

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7.17 km

Söhrewald Transmitter

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Sendeturm serves as a signpost around the hiking trails

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7.46 km

Franzosentriesch Trailhead Parking

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From the parking lot hikes and he same possible

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7.51 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.43 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

7.50 km

Elevation

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Highest point (480 m)

Lowest point (410 m)

Weather

Today

Thursday 8 October

10°C

5°C

98 %

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Comments

April 18, 2024,Rundweg 11 (mit Abstecher zur Wüstung Stückkirchen)

A short hike of around 6km, however, there is no direct hiking parking lot on the route, but the access path and detour to the abandoned village of Stückkirchen made it a bit longer. The whole route is on wide gravel paths through the "forest" or what is left of a former spruce forest after wind and bark beetles. Well, …

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August 27, 2025,Rundweg 11

My wife recently told me she doesn't like this trail, and well, I can kind of understand why: you're only on forest highways, you hardly find any shade when it's a bit warmer like today, and the forest is still quite young, so you can still clearly see that a lot of it was/is broken ground.
Nevertheless, I like this …

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April 28, 2024,Rundweg 11

Nice, short loop in open terrain; the highlight for me is the stool😁
I won't write too much about it, I only walked the route recently, otherwise you can find more information on the same hike that is hidden in the collection:
komoot.com/de-de/collection/2597980/-wanderwege-soehrewald

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April 3, 2022,Milow 🐕 - Premiere Tour im Söhrewald

Wonderful first tour with our Milow 🐕 and then snow (in April) early in the morning we went through the Söhrewald with blue skies, sunshine and snow. Unfortunately, the recording didn't work.
Milow loved it in the snow, most of the time he enjoyed it in his shoulder bag.

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