Lever hiking trail
The Hebel hiking trail is a hiking trail for literary tourism in the footsteps of the Alemannic dialect poet Johann Peter Hebel in southwest Baden-Württemberg and in the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt .
Inspired by lever's poem “Die Wiese”, it leads around 60 kilometers mostly along the Wiese river (Hebel called her “ Feldberg's little daughter”) from the source through the Wiesental in the southern Black Forest across the state border to Basel on the Rhine. The route is accompanied by information boards, which are usually in those places that are also found in Hebel's poem or provide information on important stages in Hebel's life.
Conception, financing, implementation
The path was developed from 2007 in cooperation with the Hebelbund Lörrach , whose president Hans-Jürgen Schmidt came up with the idea, as well as all the communities whose territory the path passes through, and was largely completed on the 250th birthday in 2010. The overall coordinator was Hausen's mayor Martin Bühler.
The costs for the uniformly designed large information boards amounted to around 37,000 euros. Half of the costs were borne by the Southern Black Forest Nature Park Association on the German side , while the other half was paid proportionally by the neighboring communities. Subsidies came from the state of Baden-Württemberg and the European Union as well as funds from the Glücksspirale . The Black Forest Association helped to put up the signs, the tourism department of the Lörrach district office provided support with project work.
The signage was implemented in two sections: by the lever anniversary on May 10, 2010, the section from Basel to Hausen im Wiesental was completed, the section from Hausen to Feldberg in June 2010.
A literary cycle path through Wiesental has also been planned since 2011 , similar to the ones that already exist in Baden-Württemberg. The Hebel hiking trail is not to be confused with an older Hebel trail on the district of Todtnau .
Route
The hiking trail leads from the Wiese source on the Feldberg on the existing official paths of the Black Forest Association through the Wiesental along the river. The only exception is the last section, where the path does not end at the Wiese confluence in the Kleinhüningen suburb of Basel , but at the “Schifflände” at the Mittlere Brücke in the city center of Hebel's birthplace, Basel. There are also individual detours. The path can also be walked in the opposite direction or in stages. All points are close to public transport connections (see Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach and Wiesentalbahn ) and restaurants.
Along the route, in addition to the signposting, large information boards have been set up at 31 stations, seven of which are in Switzerland. They always contain a short biography of the poet, a map with the route and an individual explanation of the connection between the respective place and the life and work of Lever. Most of the texts on the German side come from the Hebelbund President Schmidt, on the Swiss side from the folklorist Dominique Wunderlin, a member of the Hebelbund and the Basel Lever Foundation . Eva Ehrenfeld wrote some of them, from whose pen the texts for the literary museum in the Hebelhaus in Hausen im Wiesental and for the Hölderlin literature museum in Lauffen am Neckar came.
Web links
- Official information from the city of Lörrach on the Hebelweg with a route map (pdf)
- The poet shows where to go , Markgräfler Tagblatt , May 21, 2010
- Hike through the Wiesental with Johann Peter Hebel , press release Hebelbund Loerrach, April 22, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lever hiking trail completely secured , Badische Zeitung , February 26, 2010
- ^ Walking in the poet's footsteps , Badische Zeitung , May 20, 2010
- ↑ Literary Cycle Paths: Pedal to Poetry , Literaturland Baden-Württemberg